GE Healthcare to open technology and training lab in Turkey
04-Dec-14, SelectScience
GE Healthcare Life Sciences, a global tools, technologies and services provider in life science research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, will open a Technology and Training Laboratory to support Turkey’s expanding biopharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. A key component of GE’s Turkey Innovation Center in Istanbul, the laboratory will open to customers, industry and academic partners from mid-2015. This adds to GE’s global network of biopharmaceutical customer training and technology facilities in the US, UK, China, India and Sweden.
The GE Healthcare Life Sciences Technology Laboratory will feature the company’s latest tools and technologies for drug discovery, protein science, and bioprocessing research. It will offer advanced technical training and technology evaluation to the Turkish biopharmaceutical sector, as well as being open to universities as a location for elements of biotechnology degree courses. Academics, pharmaceutical and biotechnology researchers will also have access to the laboratory for small scale research studies using the latest GE equipment, as will GE customers from the Middle East and Russia.
Turkey plans to transform its domestic manufacturing of devices and pharmaceuticals, with plans for 60% of demand to be met locally.