About Covance

Covance Inc., a global contract research organization (CRO), is the world’s most comprehensive drug development company.

Covance Inc., the drug development business of LabCorp®, is the world’s most comprehensive drug development company, dedicated to advancing healthcare and delivering Solutions Made Real®.

我们独特的视角,用几十年的科学entific expertise and precision delivery of the largest volume of drug development data in the world, along with our innovative technology solutions, help our clients identify new approaches and anticipate tomorrow’s challenges as they evolve. Together with our clients, Covance transforms today’s healthcare challenges into tomorrow’s solutions.

We also offer laboratory testing services to the chemical/agrochemical industries and are a market leader in toxicology services, central laboratory services, discovery services and a top global provider of Phase III clinical trial management services.

Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings (NYSE: LH), an S&P 500 company, is a world leading life sciences company, providing comprehensive clinical laboratory and end-to-end drug development services. With a mission to improve health and improve lives, LabCorp delivers world-class diagnostic solutions, brings innovative medicines to patients faster and develops technology-enabled solutions to change the way care is provided. With net revenue in excess of $8.5 billion in 2015, LabCorp’s 50,000 employees serve clients in 60 countries.

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Mission, Vision and Values

Our mission is to improve health and improve lives.

Our vision is to be recognized by clients as:

  • The undisputed leader in providing drug development services
  • Atrusted partnerwhose hallmarks are
    • Great people
    • High-quality data
    • A proven track record of integrating and streamlining the development process

Our values are to strive for operational and service excellence through a relentless focus on People, Process and Clients.

Our History
YEAR MILESTONE
2015 LabCorp®(NYSE: LH) acquires Covance Inc., creating the world’s leading healthcare diagnostics company, providing comprehensive clinical laboratory services and end-to-end solutions for drug and diagnostics development and commercialization.
2011 Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. chooses Covance as one of its strategic partners to plan and execute global development programs to support new compounds in all therapeutic areas, except oncology.
2010 Covance signs landmark agreement with Sanofi-Aventis for a 10-year strategic R&D alliance and acquires their Porcheville, France and Alnwick, United Kingdom sites.
2009

Covance acquires Merck's Seattle-based Gene Expression Laboratory. Under the agreement, Merck has committed to a five-year $145 million contract to purchase genomic analysis services from Covance.

Covance acquires Swiss Pharma Contract, a clinical research company based in Basel, Switzerland.

2008

Covance在制药行业的基于蛋白质组学的服务的领先供应商中购买少数股权股票普氏普氏植物,进一步加强其向客户提供的生物标志物服务。

Covance makes CRO history with the most comprehensive drug development partnership in the industry. Covance acquires Lilly’s Greenfield, Indiana campus and executes a 10-year service agreement with Lilly.

2007

In celebration of their 10-year anniversary, Covance announces our partnership with CARE to support the Covance-CARE Early Childhood Development (ECD) Initiative for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Rwanda.

Covance opens Central Labs facility in Shanghai, China.

2006 Covance announces acquisition of eight early phase clinical pharmacology sites of Radiant Research, Inc. Opens the largest toxicology expansion in Madison, Wisconsin.
2002 Covance收购虚拟中央实验室,现在称为本地实验室服务。
2000

Central STET laboratory opens in Singapore to serve fast-growing East Asian market.

Covance expands pharmaceutical analysis facility in Harrogate, U.K. and Phase I clinical research unit in Leeds, U.K.

1998 Covance acquires the Berkeley (California) Antibody Company.
1997 Covance begins operations as an independent, publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after our official spin-off from Corning Incorporated.
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