KEY SFBC MIAMI ASSETS ACQUIRED BY ALLIED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL

TORONTO – August 16, 2006 – Allied Research International (ARI), Canada's leading contract research organization (CRO), announced today that it has acquired key assets of South Florida Bioavailability Clinic International's (SFBC) Miami, Florida operations. The acquired assets include a fully-functional clinical laboratory and equipment, and a 46-station cardiac monitoring suite.

"These assets will be re-located to ARI's new state-of-the-art, 150-bed Phase 1 clinic in Miami that opened this spring. ARI will also employ selected leading staff from SFBC's Miami operations," said Dr. Piyush Patel MD, CEO and Founder of ARI.

ARI now has significantly expanded capacity to perform complex Phase 1 and special population studies in the Miami area, There is a large need for these types of studies and for which few other CROs specialize.

The expanded facilities in Miami add to ARI's 80-bed Phase 1 unit in Toronto, Canada, bringing its total capacity to over 230 Phase I beds.