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BARC Worldwide

For over three decades, BARC Global Central Laboratories has provided the pharmaceutical and biotech industry with central laboratories services in routine and specialized testing in a wide range of fields including virology, microbiology, clinical pathology and genetics.

BARC laboratories routinely conduct medical clinical testing, ensuring that the tests offered are also performed on a daily basis for diagnostic purposes, patients stratification, staging, therapeutic indication and follow-up.

Equipped with cutting-edge technologies, BARC medical and scientific experts are specialists in their academic field for delivering more than just testing. At BARC, they act as genuine partners with our customers.  We encourage that our scientists are integrated in our client’s R&D processes, thus providing a critical advantage in the ever increasing complex setting of clinical trials.

Having performed central laboratories work with companies ranging from small biotechs to large pharma, we at BARC emphasize on actively collaborating with our customers to offer a personalized approach based on the understanding of our clients’ needs and on the added value brought by expert consulting thanks to our network of over 200 clinical pathologists & PhDs worldwide.

At BARC, technology transfer is more than a service, it’s a culture. That is why our customers entrust us with the implementation of new assays and techniques into our routine to seamlessly perform their laboratories work with quality-driven and yet flexible processes.

The entire executive management team at BARC is focused on offering innovative global solutions to our valued partners. They are committed to deliver on their promise through continuous investment in the latest technologies and scientific know how. In the competitive market environment of today BARC’s management understands the importance of being pro-active in our approach to achieve success. BARC’s core business of providing central laboratories services for more than three decades has helped advance our sponsors drugs to the market faster.

BARC in Africa

Using BARC’s partner Lancet Laboratories which has more than > 100 specialist pathologists, each with their own area of expertise, leads the service, not only to ensure the quality and validity of investigations, but also to offer consultative services to physicians, managed healthcare institutions, the occupational health environment and the insurance industry sectors. Geographically, this growth has taken Lancet from its strong base within South Africa to its current operations in 12 countries in Southern, East and West Africa.

Lancet is committed to providing diagnostic excellence. This, taken together with its important role and responsibility to provide specialist pathology services and infrastructure to support the fight against the key health issues affecting our continent, makes Lancet the optimal partner for anyone seeking pathology and diagnostic services in Africa. We have the capacity to courier samples and test in the following African countries: