TCS to support Roche's Global Capacity Building Initiative

Mumbai, Sep 4 (UNI) Leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Swiss pharma major Roche, have announced a partnership to advance Roche's Global Capacity Building Initiative (GCBI).

Jean-Jacques Garaud, Global Head of Pharma Development at Roche, commented, ''For Roche, it was key to finding 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 organization and to handle the increasing workload.'' Roche is pleased to have found a local partner in India which has the talents and know-how to support the company in this key initiative,'' added G L Telang, Managing Director of Roche India.

Located in Mumbai, the GCBI programme consists of a team of highly qualified pharmacologists, physicians, biostatisticians, pharmacists and informatics specialists. The aim of the collaboration is to create a flexible, scalable and high-quality partnership to support the demands of Roche's increasing drug pipeline, said Telang.

J Rajagopal, TCS Executive Vice President and Global Head - Life Sciences&Healthcare, said, ''The GCBI with Roche is another validation of TCS strategy to focus on services supporting the drug development processes and the investments made in building our domain competencies in this area.'' ''TCS continues to develop a knowledge based business, leveraging information technology and the highly talented pool of resources in the life sciences space to fulfill unique resource requirements of companies like Roche,'' said V K Raman, Head, BPO Services, TCS.

Headquartered in Basel, Roche is an innovator of products and services for the early detection, prevention, diagnosis&treatment of diseases.

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