Veeda is pleased to announce the new opening of the state-of-the-art facility at Ahmedabad, India. The facility is located within 5km of the existing location and is spread over 3 floors with an area of 25000 sq. ft. Two floors of the building will be used for the bio-analytical laboratory and the third one will be used for the administrative office.

The new facility has been designed using GLP and GMP requirements. This lab will be capable of housing up to 26 LC/MS/MS machines and will be empowered with NuGenesis by Waters along with Watson LIMS by Thermo Scientific which is already in use.

The new lab is equipped with dedicated areas such as high-end sample processing, light sensitive area, special care area where controlled conditions can be maintained for molecule specific requirements. The new lab complies extensively with scientific infrastructure, and regulatory requirements. Additionally, the compartmental lab design will be helpful to maintain confidentiality and cross contamination. This will enhance our capability of handling tricky assays e.g. hormonal, oncology, antiretroviral, endogenous and chiral assays and clinically difficult samples e.g. tissues, patient and infectious samples respectively.

The first AB Sciex API 5500 Qtrap is going to be delivered in Oct’10. This enables the expansion of method library to offer more sensitive methods (e.g. hormonal) and develop the expertise in new areas like biosimilars.

The administrative office will house the Finance, Human Resources, Administration, Information Technology, Business Development departments as well as key management members such as the COO and Directors.

Veeda has plans to expand the existing clinical facility at Ahmedabad across two phases, which would see the bed capacity in Ahmedabad increase to 200. The first phase work will commence in October 2010 and will be complete by December 2010.