A year af­ter ex­pan­sion in Penn­syl­va­nia, Al­ta­sciences scoops up CRO to spread to Mid­west

Al­ta­sciences CEO Chris Perkin has gone through sev­er­al ac­qui­si­tions in his 45-year ca­reer. And if there’s one thing he learned, it’s how not to go through an ac­qui­si­tion.

His com­pa­ny put that knowl­edge to use on Tues­day when it an­nounced that it had ac­quired com­peti­tor Sin­clair re­search, a pre­clin­i­cal con­tract re­search or­ga­ni­za­tion in Mis­souri. With the pick­up, Al­ta­sciences gains 80 an­i­mal rooms, and full-ser­vice IND and NDA-en­abling tox­i­col­o­gy and safe­ty phar­ma­col­o­gy ser­vices.

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