Quintiles Asia Pacific Wins Three Awards for Excellence

Quintiles Asia Pacific Wins Three Awards for Excellence

June 12, 2007

    RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., June 12
/Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Quintiles Transnational Corp. today
announced that its Asia Pacific unit has received three
awards for excellence in customer service.

    Quintiles received the Multinational Clinical Services
Provider of the Year, Multinational Laboratory Services
Provider of the Year and Customer Service Leadership of the
Year awards at the Frost & Sullivan 2007 Asia Pacific
Excellence in Healthcare Award Ceremony held June 8 in
Singapore.  

    Anand Tharmaratnam, Head of Clinical Development, Asia
Pacific, and CEO of Quintiles Southeast Asia, attributed
the achievement to the company's commitment to its
employees and to its customers.  "We have made a major
effort to become the pharmaceutical employer of choice in
the region, and because of that we have the best team in
Asia," Tharmaratnam said.  "The team's goal is to
use our expertise and world-class technology and processes
to become the first choice of our customers in all the
services we provide.  These three awards are evidence that
we are well on the way to achieving that goal."

    Tharmaratnam accepted the award for clinical services. 
Alan Ong, Vice President and General Manager for Central
Laboratory Services Asia and Africa, accepted the award for
laboratory services. Bhavani Sivalingam, Head of Project
Management, Asia Pacific, accepted the award for customer
service. Frost & Sullivan says the awards
"recognize companies and individuals that have pushed
the boundaries of excellence -- rising above the
competition and demonstrating outstanding performance
across Asia Pacific."

    Quintiles employs about 1,700 people in 11 Asian
countries, focusing on clinical operations, project
management, data management, central laboratory and ECG
services for multinational Phase II-III clinical trials.

    About Quintiles

    Quintiles Transnational Corp. is powering the next
generation of healthcare by providing a broad range of
professional services in drug development, financial
partnering and commercialization for the pharmaceutical,
biotechnology and healthcare industries. With 18,000
employees and offices in more than 50 countries, it is
focused on providing customer-centric solutions that are
the gold standard of the industry. For more information,
please visit the company's Web site at
http://www.quintiles.com .


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