TCS to support Roche's capacity building

Tata Consultancy Services and Roche, a leading global healthcare group, announced on Tuesday a partnership to advance the latter's global capacity building initiative.

Roche is one of the world's top research-focused healthcare groups in the fields of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics.

The initiative between the two companies will provide services to a number of areas in Roche's development organisation, including clinical data management, clinical programming, biostatistics and drug safety support, a release said.

"The aim of the collaboration between TCS and Roche is to create a flexible, scalable and high-quality partnership to support the demands of Roche's increasing drug pipeline," the release said.

Roche's global capacity building initiative, located in Mumbai, consists of a team of highly-qualified pharmacologists, physicians, bio-statisticians, pharmacists and informatics specialists.

The partnership will help Roche leverage the extensive talent pool in India, maximise synergies and gain ongoing cost and process improvements, while maintaining high quality and service levels.

TCS' Executive Vice-President and Global Head--Life Sciences & Healthcare, J Rajagopal, said: "the global capacity building initiative with Roche is another validation of TCS' strategy to focus on services supporting the drug development processes and the investments made in building our domain competencies in this area."