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BERWYN, Pa., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Encorium Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENCO), a full-service multinational contract research organization (CRO) that provides design, development, and management capabilities for clinical trials and patient registries to many of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, today announced the signing of approximately $8.7 million of new business contracts, including selection by a major pharmaceutical company for participation in a swine flu vaccine program.
Dr. Kai Lindevall, executive chairman stated, "We are delighted to be able to announce these new business awards, despite a very challenging market environment. Our experience and capabilities in the vaccine field have been of paramount importance in our success. We are very proud of being the selected partner for one of the frontline clinical development programs for the swine flu vaccine. In addition, we were also recently entrusted with a avian flue vaccine, as well as other vaccine development programs having, in the aggregate, approximately 12,000 patient subjects. We believe our participation in these studies exemplifies the level of trust and respect that large vaccine companies have in our vaccine expertise and clinical operations.
"We believe Encorium has developed into one of the strongest medium sized clinical research organizations with expertise in the field of clinical vaccine development. Our recent success in the vaccine field has been substantial, with revenues from vaccine trials increasing by 150% in 2009 versus 2008. As an acknowledgement of our achievements, in April 2009, Encorium was nominated as a finalist for the Second Annual Vaccine Industry Excellence Award.
"The establishment of our Core Vaccine Team has made it poss
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