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Quintiles Central Laboratories: The Support to Make it Easy. The Science to Get it Right.

You can rely on Quintiles Central Laboratories to deliver on the promise of quality, scientific expertise and proactive customer service to overcome the complexities of global clinical trials.

We provide you with an experienced project manager with the local expertise and communications skills to ensure your project stays on-time and on-budget, trained to provide you with solutions instead of issues.

And, with expertise from biomarker and assay development to safety testing, a broad test menu and the science behind our comprehensive service offering, we can help deliver the results you need. View services list.

  • WELCOME TO OUR GLOBAL LABORATORY

    With the largest network of wholly owned, CAP-accredited central labs in the industry, we provide you:

    • Consistent and comparable results from region to region, study to study
    • Uniform instrumentation and SOPs
    • Reduced inter-country and inter-continental shipping

    This means you get reliable and harmonized data, allowing you to make real-time decisions on your study trends.

    Quintiles Central Laboratories

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  • ARGENTINA

    City: Buenos Aires

    Affiliate Lab

    Integration of this affiliate lab into the Quintiles Central Laboratory network is facilitated by our significant clinical presence in Buenos Aires. Our dedicated senior scientists work in close collaboration with the lab's staff to establish and control technical consistency with quality standards. The Buenos Aires lab serves not only Argentina, but also Chile and Peru as needed when trials involve significant Latin American populations. With a broad test menu and complete laboratory offering, we help you get consistent quality data and results in Latin America.

    It also handles clinical trial specimens in the course of trials managed by Quintiles Central Laboratory Services.

    Quintiles Central Laboratories, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • BRAZIL

    City: Sao Paulo

    Affiliate Lab

    Since 1998 we have partnered with Diagnosticos da America to offer laboratory services in Latin America. Through uniform instrumentation and our global standard operating procedures (SOPs), we provide you with consistent and harmonized data comparable across our network of wholly owned and affiliate labs, making it easier for you to compare your laboratory data across sites.

    Quintiles Central Laboratories, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • CHINA

    City: Beijing

    Wholly Owned

    Accreditations

    What began in 2003 as a partnership with Peking Union Medical College Hospital has now grown into a 17,000-square-foot downtown location with a state-of-the-art central lab facility. Our services here include digital pathology, a smart solution to regulatory restrictions against exporting tissue samples.

    Central Lab services in China:
    • Chemistry
    • Hematology
    • Urinalysis
    • Serology markers
    • HBV PCR
    • Hemoglobin A1C with NGSP-1 certification
    • Coagulation
    • Specimen management — both ambient and frozen — as well as laboratory testing

  • INDIA

    City: Mumbai

    Wholly Owned

    Accreditations

    Since opening in early 2007, our central laboratory in Mumbai has provided the quality, flexibility and speed needed to help run efficient clinical trials. Harmonized with our global network of central labs, we ensure consistent data through uniform instrumentation and standardized SOPs. So you can gain access to patient populations anywhere in India, knowing your data is accurate and comparable.

    Central Lab services in India:
    • Chemistry
    • Hematology
    • Urinalysis
    • Specimen management — both ambient and frozen — as well as laboratory testing
    • Endocrinology
    • Tumor marker
    • Serology markers
    • Hemoglobin

    Quintiles Central Laboratories, Mumbai, India

  • JAPAN

    City: Tokyo

    Affiliate lab

    Our Tokyo facility is staffed by our own highly trained technicians embedded within the Medca Japan laboratory. We can assure consistency with our global practices for accessioning, project management support, data capture, and specimen management and storage to help you make solid decisions on trends with your studies conducted in Japan.

    Globally harmonized tests available to you in Japan:
    • Automated chemistry
    • Endocrinology
    • Thyroid
    • Hematology
    • Urinalysis

  • SCOTLAND

    City: Edinburgh

    Wholly Owned

    Accreditations

    Offering laboratory services in Europe since 1995, we expanded our capabilities by upgrading our facilities in 2009, doubling our capacity. We now bring under one roof our clinical and laboratory services, including assay development services. Now you have greater control of the entire clinical development process with consistent, global standard operating procedures and quality data.

    Central Lab services in Scotland:
    • Chemistry
    • Hematology
    • Urinalysis
    • Serology markers
    • Viral load
    • Hemoglobin A1C with NGSP-1 certification
    • Coagulation
    • Specimen management — both ambient and frozen — as well as laboratory testing
    • Endocrinology
    • Thyroid
    • Flow cytometry
    • Biomarkers

    Quintiles Central Laboratories, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • SINGAPORE

    City: Singapore

    Wholly Owned

    Accreditations

    In 1995 we chose Singapore as our first Asian office, and established the central laboratory there in 1998. The hub for the Asia Pacific region, Singapore is an ideal location with all the major logistics capabilities for a successful central laboratory operation delivering better logistics management and quicker sample analysis turnaround to you. Following our SOPs and global quality assurance standards, we enable you to pursue large-scale Phase II and III studies throughout Asia, without compromising data integrity.

    Central Lab services in Singapore:
    • Chemistry
    • Hematology
    • Urinalysis
    • Serology markers
    • HBV PCR
    • Hemoglobin A1C with NGSP-1 certification
    • Coagulation
    • Specimen management — both ambient and frozen — as well as laboratory testing
    • Endocrinology
    • Thyroid
    • Flow cytometry

  • SOUTH AFRICA

    City: Pretoria

    Wholly Owned

    Accreditations

    Quintiles has had an established presence in South Africa since 1999, and our central laboratory in Pretoria is wholly owned and co-located with our clinical operations offices. So we can serve as your reliable ally for clinical trials not only in South Africa but also across the entire African continent. Because we have greater control over every step of the process, choosing Quintiles ensures uniform instrumentation and SOPs, so that results from a patient in South Africa are harmonized — directly comparable — to those from a patient anywhere else on the globe. The result? You can better monitor trends from patient data and make better informed decisions on that data.

    Central Lab services in South Africa:
    • Chemistry
    • Hematology
    • Urinalysis
    • Serology markers
    • Hemoglobin A1C with NGSP-1 certification
    • Coagulation
    • Flow cytometry
    • Microbiology

  • UNITED STATES

    City: Atlanta, Georgia; Westmont, Illinois

    Wholly Owned

    Accreditations

    With operations in the US since 1991 through our Central Laboratory in Atlanta, we offer you a broad test menu and follow rigorous quality assurance procedures to make certain your data is harmonized to help you make decisions faster. With the upgrade of our Atlanta facility in 2008 and the acquisition of Chicago-based Targeted Molecular Diagnostics in 2008, we expanded our capabilities. Now we can offer cell-, fluid- and tissue-based biomarker assay development services to help you better understand how your compounds work and in which populations they're most likely to perform best.

    Central Lab services in the US:
    • Chemistry
    • Hematology
    • Urinalysis
    • Serology markers
    • Viral load
    • Hemoglobin A1C with NGSP-1 certification
    • Coagulation
    • Specimen management (both ambient and frozen) as well as laboratory testing
    • Endocrinology
    • Thyroid
    • Flow cytometry
    • Genotyping
    • Biomarkers

    Quintiles Central Laboratories, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

 
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