Eisai To Establish U.K. Facility To Take Drugs From R&D To Market
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Eisai is opening a facility in the United Kingdom to take drugs from research through marketing, its first production base in Europe. The $165 million site is intended to more than double the company's drug researchers, to 60, and focus on developing drugs to treat mental ailments such as dementia. In a change from outsourcing its work to Europe, Eisai has decided to use a U.K. location to do research and develop, produce drugs and market them. Eisai expects to begin packaging drugs in the current fiscal year and produce pills and powders in fiscal 2010 with a capacity of producing 400 million pills a year. (Click here for more - a subscription may be required