Sandoz Global, a global leader in generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars has announced the setting up of their Global Capability Centre (GCC) laboratory in Hyderabad.

The GCC will provide support for their worldwide knowledge services, cementing Hyderabad’s leadership position in the Pharma and Global Centre space. The new centre will initially start with 800 manpower capacity, with a plan to increase the number to 1800 in future.

The Sandoz team which already has a development centre at Genome Valley engaged in cutting-edge R&D facilities will now focus on the automation of the existing facility.