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Sekisui Chemical (Tokyo, Japan) is to acquire privately held US CRO XenoTech (Lenexa, Kansas), which specialises in pre-clinical safety studies. Specific terms of the all-cash transaction have not been disclosed.

E-clinical specialist etrials Worldwide (Morrisville, North Carolina) has announced that its president and CEO, Eugene (Chip) Jennings, resigned on July 8th “for family reasons”.

Parexel International (Boston, Massachusetts) has sold its stand-alone bioanalytical laboratory in Poitiers, France, to privately owned Indian CRO Synchron Research Services (Ahmedabad, Gujarat)

Quintiles Transnational (North Carolina) has signed an agreement with Medca Japan to provide central laboratory services in Japan. Quintiles will have its own staff at the Medca Japan laboratory in Saitama, a city in the Greater Tokyo area

Quintiles Transnational (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) is to expand its global central laboratories and clinical development service (CDS) units in Beijing, China.

US private equity firm Genstar Capital (San Francisco, California) has completed its $797 million acquisition of PRA International (Reston, Virginia).

Pfizer has started a dose-ranging Phase II clinical trial of PF-03187207 for the treatment of glaucoma in Japan.

US CRO Clinsys Clinical Research (Bedminster, New Jersey) and its French counterpart ITEC Services (Cenon, Bordeaux) have entered into a strategic alliance agreement.