Hikal has set up a dedicated contract research facility Acoris Research Ltd. at Biotech Park, Pune. Acoris is a 100% subsidiary of Hikal.

Acoris Research Ltd. is a state-of-the-art contract research facility with special focus on chemical research and development services.

Situated at the International Biotech Park in Pune, India, Acoris is the hub of contract research offerings for discovery and process research and is well equipped with synthetic-, analytical- and kilo laboratories (with up to 50 l equipment), including a cGMP kilolab.

Acoris supports the clients in the discovery and early development phase of their products by means of:
• Route scouting
• Small scale synthesis
• Scale up ( GMP/non GMP)
• Process research
• Analytical characterization/method development
• Process safety data

The competence of the scientific staff comprises concurrent as well as advanced technologies like metal organic reactions, chiral synthesis or sugar chemistry. The scale up laboratories are well equipped to carry out these reactions on larger scale including cryogenic & high pressure reactions (presently upto 20 bars).

The site has more than 150 scientists in the first phase and is fully integrated with the infrastructure of the Biotech Park. It has its own effluent treatment plant, standby power generator and electricity distribution system. All projects are carried out under strict confidentiality and protection of intellectual property rights.

”Acoris blends world class facilities with intellectual capital to meet the specialized R&D needs of innovator companies. At Acoris, we are geared to ensure the speed and excellence of execution, process safety and scalability. We are working towards extending our scope of services to biological profiling & drug discovery services in future” states Dr. R. Helmut Rupp, President, Acoris Research Ltd.

Pune is an intellectual hub being home to several prestigious academic institutions such as the National Chemical Laboratory, National Institute of Virology and the Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, University of Pune.