Interview with Darren Ji, CEO, PharmaLegacy
Could you give us some personal background and tell us why you choose to come to the CRO side after a successful career at a multinational? A lot of people…
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PharmaLegacy Laboratories is a leading preclinical Contract Research Organization (CRO) providing specialty pharmacology services in Bone Metabolism, Immune Diseases, Inflammation, Oncology, and Orthopaedics and Tissue Engineering. The core competency of PharmaLegacy stems from our pioneering work and expertise in developing and running specialized animal models to test drug candidates and medical devices for their pharmacological effects and biocompatible repairs. We also conduct adjacency studies in PK/PD, molecular pharmacology and preliminary toxicology. Overall we provide one-stop shopping of preclinical pharmacology services for early proof of concept of therapeutics and fulfillment of regulatory requirement.
Aspiring to collaborate with our global clients to accelerate their missions to develop new therapies, PharmaLegacy provides quality services with faster turnaround and higher productivity of R&D to IND/IDE endeavors for pharmaceutical, biotech, and orthopaedic device companies around the world.
The PharmaLegacy management team consists of world-renowned scholars, top service scientists and seasoned business leaders from the US and Shanghai. We have fully established animal pharmacology models of rodents, rabbits, dogs, sheep, goats and non-human primates which are used to serve our current clients of large multinational pharmaceutical and medical device companies, as well as small- to-medium-sized biotech companies.
Research
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