TCS to support Roche's global capacity building initiative

05 September 2007

Mumbai: IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has entered into a partnership with global healthcare group Roche under which the two will undertake programmes to advance the pharma giant''s global capacity building initiative.

The programme will cover a number of areas in Roche''s development organisation, including clinical data management, clinical programming, bio-statistics and drug safety support, TCS said in a release.

This new initiative will provide services to a number of areas in Roche''s development organization, including clinical data management, clinical programming, biostatistics and drug safety support. The aim of the collaboration between TCS and Roche is to create a flexible, scalable and high-quality partnership to support the demands of Roche''s increasing drug pipeline.

Jean-Jacques Garaud, global head of pharma development at Roche, said, "For Roche, it was key to find the best partner for our GCBI initiative and the collaboration with TCS is the result of an extensive international search. The partnership with TCS will allow us to address the growing operational needs of our development organisation and to handle the increasing workload".

"The aim of the collaboration between TCS and Roche is to create a flexible, scalable and high-quality partnership to support the demands of Roche''s increasing drug pipeline," the release said.

Roche''s global capacity-building initiative, based in Mumbai, consists of a team of pharmacologists, physicians, bio-statisticians, pharmacists and informatics specialists.