AgilityBio, a division of BioImagene Inc, and Advinus Therapeutics, a TATA enterprise, announced a partnership that will enable providing imaging services in conjunction with preclinical development services offered by Advinus. This partnership will bring about a synergy between drug development at US based biotech and pharma industries and India’s highly developed life sciences service industry. Advinus, which is a leading service provider of pre-clinical development services to global Pharma and Biotech industry will combine its services with AgilityBio?s imaging services that use BioImagene?s cutting edge digital pathology solutions for cancer diagnosis and research.
Efficient management and analysis of image data is a critical component for successful decision making in toxicology. In the drug discovery and development fields, extracting meaningful information and knowledge from image data is still manual and hence inefficient and expensive. This partnership will offer customers a high value solution for performing toxicology studies and rapid image management and processing, providing novel opportunities for global collaboration.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Nimish Vachharajani, VP and Head Pharmaceutical Development at Advinus said, ?This alliance brings together the world-class preclinical development services of Advinus and the cutting-edge technology of AgilityBio together for our customers. In particular for our international clients, digitalization of slides from toxicology studies will offer an affordable alternative to reduce travel time and costs for peer-reviews.?
“We are very pleased to welcome Advinus as our partner. We foresee an acceleration of drug development and numerous opportunities for Indian pathologists to integrate with the global drug discovery markets. We foresee a significantly improved work flow in the laboratory and seamless execution of preclinical projects, which will ultimately save veterinary pathologists a lot of time.? said Dr. Ajit Singh, CEO of BioImagene.
Dr. Roli Khattri, CSO of AgilityBio said ?Advinus is a leader in providing outsourcing solutions to the global pharmaceutical and biotech industry with state of the art facilities in Bangalore, India. Integrating our pathology slide scanning, web-based hosting and archiving services with Advinus?s preclinical studies will reduce the time and risk involved in shipping slides for international customers and an easy access to expert veterinary pathologist opinions from around the world for Advinus scientists.”