Covance Debuts New Solution to Connect Emerging Biotech with Potential Partners
Covance announced the introduction of Covance MarketPlace, a new solution that enables Covance?s emerging biotechnology and established pharmaceutical clients to find and forge new partnerships in a secure forum.
Covance announced the introduction of Covance MarketPlace, a new solution that enables Covance’s emerging biotechnology and established pharmaceutical clients to find and forge new partnerships in a secure forum.
Sourcing high-quality drug candidates efficiently and effectively is a pivotal step in the industry’s quest to accelerate the development and launch of innovative new medicines. Covance MarketPlace helps biotech more effectively showcase their molecules to larger pharmaceutical companies as they continue to increase their own in-licensing efforts.
The company is actively working with its client base of more than 500 biotechnology companies to place their compounds into Covance MarketPlace. Upon completion, Covance MarketPlace will be activated for select Covance pharmaceutical clients, giving them line-of-sight to molecules early in their development lifecycle, typically at the IND/CTA-enabling, first-in-human or proof-of- concept phase.
“With expertise from pre-clinical through market commercialization, Covance can proactively guide our clients in the design of programs that link robust preclinical strategies to optimized clinical plans to improved product labels,” said Steve Street, Vice President and General Manager of Covance Early Development. “This scientific, medical and regulatory continuity combined with our unique understanding of the challenges faced by emerging biotechnology companies, affords us tremendous insights that we use to streamline a molecule’s development. Helping our biotechnology clients enhance the quality and value of their compounds while gaining vital exposure to the right audiences at the right time can increase the likelihood of a novel medicine advancing into the clinic and, ultimately, to patients.”
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