LabConnect Expands To Central And Eastern Europe

LabConnect & Synevo Harmonize Operations

Seattle - LabConnect announced that Synevo - Medicover Laboratory Services, has signed a definitive agreement to join the LabConnect network, becoming the first US-based central laboratory with a presence in Central and Eastern Europe.

Synevo - Medicover Laboratory Network, Central and Eastern Europe's largest laboratory services provider, has 23 facilities, more than 650 employees, and experience providing multinational central lab services for more than 100 clinical trials over the last nine years. LabConnect & Synevo will jointly provide centralized laboratory services for the European continent from laboratories based in Poland and Romania.

"We're currently managing several global projects with Synevo and we're betting that our clients will increasingly seek out Central and Eastern European investigator sites. Sites in the region are well known for their recruitment success combined with high quality and cost-effective research," noted Eric Hayashi, LabConnect's president and chief executive officer. "We're very fortunate to have Central and Eastern Europe's most experienced central laboratory as part of the LabConnect network," he added.

Synevo's Clinical Research Director Januz Kabata, M.D., Ph.D., MBA commented, "Joining LabConnect's global network will allow us to rapidly build upon our nearly ten years of clinical trial experience. Through the LabConnect network, we can now provide our clients with integrated global data utilizing standardized reference ranges and units of measure."

The addition is LabConnect's third laboratory and second laboratory addition in less than a year. Last year LabConnect expanded beyond its core "safety" testing laboratory in Johnson City, Tenn. by adding Consolidated Laboratory Services, a Van Nuys, Calif.-based laboratory specializing in analytical chemistry, molecular diagnostics, and biostorage services since 1995.

SOURCE: LabConnect, LLC