Abstract
FIVE YEARS AGO, China was perceived by Western drug discovery researchers either as a supplier of competitively priced chemistry services or as a good place to conduct clinical trials on patients. Researchers did not go there to purchase biology services or get toxicology studies done. The idea of the three founders of Medicilon was to start offering these additional services and see what happened. Jintao Zhang, Chunlin Chen, and Cheney Mao launched their company in 2004, and it took off like a rocket. At its start, the firm employed just 20 people operating in 10,000 sq ft of lab space. By the end of 2008, it will have a staff of about 470 people and occupy 218,000 sq ft. In addition to its original facilities in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Medicilon now operates a research campus close to the city’s international airport that consists of four multistory buildings. The company now is one of only ...
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