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Leading Indian CRO-CDMO, Sai Life Sciences opens representative office in Tokyo, Japan
TOKYO and HYDERABAD, India, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/--

- Participating in the PharmaLab Expo Tokyo during Nov 25-27 to jumpstart 
outreach

    Sai Life Sciences, one of India's fastest growing Contract Research, 
Development & Manufacturing Organizations 
[https://www.sailife.com/?utm_source=pr&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=opens-repres
entative-office-in-japan] (CRO-CDMO), announced the opening of its 
representative office in Tokyo, Japan. The new office will serve as base for 
the company's outreach to innovator pharmaceutical and biotech companies in 
Japan and other countries in the Asia Pacific region. A seasoned industry 
specialist, Mr. Junjiro Sato has been appointed as Representative Director to 
be based in Tokyo and spearhead the efforts.

    Sai Life Sciences will be participating in the PharmaLab Expo Tokyo (held 
inside INTERPHEX Week) during Nov 25-27, 2020 to create awareness about its 
unique service offerings across drug discovery, development and 
commercialization.

    Sai Life Sciences already has a significant connection with the Japanese 
market. It was the launch site for commercial API supplies of an NCE to Japan 
and has supplied over 10 tonnes of API with batch sizes of 50 Kg to 150 Kg 
scale over the past 4 years. It also is a supplier of registered starting 
materials for two other commercial APIs. From a Discovery perspective, the 
company has helped several biotech and pharma companies advance programs from 
HIT to lead optimization/ candidate stage, through its chemistry, biology and 
DMPK services.  

    Over the past two decades, Sai Life Sciences has served a diverse set of 
NCE development programmes, consistently delivering value based on its quality 
and responsiveness. It has a 100% successful track record of regulatory 
inspections across its R&D and manufacturing facilities from both FDA and PMDA. 
Today, it works with 7 of the top 10 large pharma companies, in addition to 
several small and mid-sized pharma & biotech companies. It has over 2000 
employees across its facilities in India, UK and USA. 

    Coinciding with its 20th anniversary in 2019, the company announced Sai 
Nxt, an organisation-wide initiative aimed at transforming itself into a new 
generation CRO-CDMO. Guided by insights and feedback from customers, it is 
investing over US$150M to significantly expand and upgrade its R&D and 
manufacturing facilities, deepen scientific capabilities, strengthen automation 
and data systems, and above all raise the bar for safety, quality and customer 
focus. 

    About Sai Life Sciences

    Sai Life Sciences is a full-service CRO/ CDMO 
[https://www.sailife.com/?utm_source=pr&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=opens-repres
entative-office-in-japan] driven by a vision to support the launch of 25 new 
medicines by 2025. It works with innovator pharma and biotech companies 
globally, accelerating the discovery, development and manufacture of complex 
small molecules. A pure-play CDMO, Sai Life Sciences has served a diverse set 
of NCE development programs, consistently delivering value based on its quality 
and responsiveness. Today, it works with 7 of the top 10 large pharma 
companies, as well as several small and mid-sized pharma & biotech companies. 
Sai Life Sciences is privately held and backed by global investors, TPG Capital 
and HBM Healthcare Investments. https://www.sailife.com

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   Source: Sai Life Sciences
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