PPD Extends its Reach to Eastern and Central Europe

We recently posted that Covance was planning on opening up several offices across Eastern Europe, and now according to this article in novinite.com PPD is set to buy AbCRO, which is Bulgarian based CRO, in order to expand its drug testing businesses in Eastern and Central Europe.

The purchase which is expected to be completed in March will add Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Croatia to PPD’s operations in Europe and also help bolster its already existing operations in Poland, Russia and the Ukraine. What other clinical trials companies are investing heavily in Eastern and Central Europe?