India’s Syngene opens lab for Amgen

Syngene International, a Bangalore-based contract research firm, has opened a lab that will work exclusively for the drugmaker Amgen. The multidisciplinary facility will be staffed by 100 scientists once fully operational. This is the fourth Syngene facility dedicated to a single client. The firm also operates labs for Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Nutrition, and Baxter. Syngene is a subsidiary of Biocon, India’s largest biotech firm.