SHANGHAI, April 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- LabNetwork, a WuXi AppTec company, held a formal signing ceremony in Shanghai announcing strategic cooperation agreements with 8 top-ranking global chemical providers. With the vision of connecting suppliers and buyers on LabNetwork's global platform for research products, the agreements aim to explore development and speed the time to market of innovative and high quality research compounds. These partnerships reflect LabNetwork's commitment to enable scientists anywhere in the world to leverage the LabNetwork platform to conduct their research more efficiently and cost effectively.
Based on the data collected by WuXi AppTec in the last 15 years, LabNetwork has established a strict supplier rating system and selected the following 8 companies as the first Five-Star Chemical Service Providers in China: Shanghai Bide Pharmatech Ltd.; Accela ChemBio (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; PharmaBlock Inc.; Shanghai Titan Scientific Co.,Ltd.; Shanghai 9 Ding Chem Scientific Co., Ltd.; Beijing InnoChem Science & Technology Co., Ltd.; TCI (Shanghai) Development Co., Ltd.; and Beijing Ouhe Scientific Co., Ltd..
The eCommerce alliance with so many leading chemical providers helps to create a new chemical trading model with high quality and high efficiency. The ultimate goal is to encourage more suppliers to provide their services in a more transparent and market-driven way to assist new drug research and development.
"LabNetwork will be a catalyst to enable more efficient and cost-effective research," said Dr. Xuanjia Peng, the Head of LabNetwork. "WuXi AppTec has always been dedicated to creating an open platform for innovation and technology, and LabNetwork is the ideal channel through which we continue this quest. We spare no efforts to provide high quality compounds to global end-users in pharmaceutical discovery and help them to speed up their research."
LabNetwork Inc., a subsidiary of the WuXi AppTec Group, leverages the professional knowledge and strength of WuXi in the areas of new drug development, strategic sourcing, quality control and global logistics. Through WuXi's depth of experience with chemical service providers and end-users from all over the world, LabNetwork connects suppliers and buyers on a global scale, resulting in a revolutionary eCommerce platform for discovery compounds.
About WuXi AppTec
WuXi AppTec is a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device R&D platform company with global operations. As a research-driven and customer-focused company, WuXi AppTec provides a broad and integrated portfolio of laboratory and manufacturing services throughout the drug and medical device R&D process. WuXi AppTec's services are designed to assist its global partners in shortening the cycle and lowering the cost of drug and medical device R&D. WuXi AppTec is also building a platform to provide clinical diagnostic services directly to physicians and their patients globally. Please visit: http://www.wuxiapptec.com.
For further information, please contact:
WuXi AppTec
Aaron Shi
Director of Corporate Communications
+86-21 5046-4362
aaron_shi@wuxiapptec.com
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