Quintiles

Quintiles Transnational is a pharmaceutical services company offering clinical, commercial, consulting and capital services. The Quintiles network consists of more than 20,000 employees in 60 countries.

Quintiles manages clinical trials on behalf of pharmaceutical customers, and provides the following services:

• Management of clinical trials, data, projects and providing laboratory services
• Providing customers with sales force, product and brand solutions
• Providing data-driven recommendations to help customers achieve success
• Creating strategic partnerships through financing and operational solutions

Quintiles helped develop or commercialize all of 2009's top 50 best selling drugs or compounds and nearly 90% of all breakthrough products released on the market between 1996 and 2008.

History

Quintiles was founded in 1982 by Dennis Gillings, Ph.D., CBE, then a professor of biostatistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Key Dates:

• 1974: Dennis Gillings signs first contract to provide statistical and data management consulting for pharmaceutical clients.
• 1982: Quintiles, Inc., is incorporated in North Carolina.
• 1990: Quintiles Pacific Inc. and Quintiles Ireland Ltd. established
• 1991: Quintiles GMBH established in Germany; Quintiles Laboratories Ltd. established in Atlanta, Georgia
• 1996: Quintiles buys Innovex Ltd. and BRI International......
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