WuXi Pharmatech

Roche has a research and development (R D) center in China with 40 employees. Novartis built an R D center in China in 2006. Eli Lilly and Company has an R D contract for chemistry services with a Chinese custom research laboratory that is under exclusive service to Lilly. Other pharmaceutical companies also have extensive FTE arrangements with custom research laboratories in China (one example is Merck s collaboration with WuXi PharmaTech). 

Biotech and pharma companies outsource a number of different functions. In the discovery phase, the syntheses of building blocks, intermediates, and especially libraries are frequently outsourced, often to India or Eastern Europe. Offshoring of chemistry is frequent, that of biology less so. But ADME Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion) studies and animal models for preclinical development are now sometimes done in China, for example, at Shanghai s WuXi Pharmatech, whose customers currently include nearly all of big pharma and big biotech. ... 

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