An agreement to deploy Watson LIMS catapults WuXi PharmaTech's bioanalytical service group to the globally accepted quality level, says Dr Ge Li, the company's Chairman and CEO.
WuXi PharmaTech the pharmaceutical R+D services company in China, has selected Watson LIMS from Thermo Electron Corporation, to meet the specific data management requirements of its bioanalytical facilities.
Shanghai-based WuXi PharmaTech serves 19 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and eight of the top 10 biopharmaceutical companies in the world, helping them to shorten the cycle and lower the cost of drug research and development.
WuXi provides discovery and development services, from lead identification to pre-clinical, at its state-of-the-art facilities.
"This agreement to deploy Watson LIMS catapults our bioanalytical service group to the globally accepted quality level," said Dr Ge Li, chairman and CEO of WuXi PharmaTech.
"Using Thermo LIMS will significantly accelerate our analysis and laboratory turn-around, reduce costs associated with sample management, and increase workflow efficiency".
"As an integrated solution, it will substantially enable our laboratory services group to bring high quality services to our clients." Watson is a leading laboratory information management system (LIMS) for bioanalytical laboratories.
As a purpose-built, commercial-off-the-shelf solution, Watson promotes compliance with Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) regulations and 21 CFR Part 11 guidance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Watson is relied on by 18 of the top 20 global pharmaceutical organisations, and is widely used in leading biotechnology and contract research organisations worldwide.
Watson is part of Thermo's pharmaceutical informatics suite, which includes Nautilus LIMS for research and development, particularly in biotechnology; Galileo LIMS for in vitro ADME/Tox research; Watson for bioanalysis; and Darwin LIMS for pharmaceutical manufacturing RandD and quality control.
Thermo also provides the Enterprise Pharmacology (EP) Series and Kinetica as dedicated DMPK analysis tools, GRAMS/AI for spectral data processing, and Atlas CDS, selected a top chromatography data system in 2005.
