NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – PerkinElmer said this week that it will open a new Bio-pharma Center of Excellence in Hyderabad, India, later this year.
The center, which is scheduled to open in October, will provide PerkinElmer's clients with screening and profiling technologies, access to drug discovery tools and services and quality control applications, training facilities, and expertise.
The center will enable the company to focus on the drug discovery market in India, and it is part of PerkinElmer's plan to "substantially broaden" its presence in India in certain markets, and to expand "links with government and private research institutes," the company said.
PerkinElmer India's President, Fedja Bobanovic, said in a statement that the company is expanding in the country because it "presents compelling growth opportunities in environmental monitoring, neonatal and maternal screening, and pharmaceutical research."
In 2008 the company opened a Technology and Innovations Facility in Mumbai that focuses on environmental health sciences.