Sai Life Sciences Manchester announces recruitment drive to increase scientific team by 20%

Commences recruitment for 15 positions across analytical, chemistry, engineering and particle sciences departments

Sai Life Sciences, today announced plans to grow the scientific team at its site in Manchester, UK by 20% and commenced the process of recruitment for 15 positions across analytical, chemistry, engineering and particle sciences departments. View open positions.

Making the announcement, Dr Dean Edney, Global Head of Process R&D at Sai Life Sciences said, “In a little over two years since we began in Manchester, our team has established a formidable reputation for itself as a high-quality scientific unit that can solve complex chemistry challenges. Our growing list of global innovator clients is a strong validation of our success. The present recruitment drive is aimed at increasing our scientific capacity to better serve the growing demand.”

In July 2020, Sai Life Sciences opened a new Centre of Excellence in Process Chemistry R&D in Alderley Park, Manchester to help accelerate the NCE development programmes of its global innovator customers. This Centre has since grown to become a reliable partner to many innovator companies across the world, providing high quality chemistry, non-GMP material delivery, and successful technology transfer to its sites in India for scale-up.

Now, with a growing interest from its customers for clinical API supplies from Manchester, work is underway to set-up a GMP Kilo Lab at the Manchester site. Scheduled to be commissioned in Q4-2022, the new facility will be capable of delivering GMP drug substance and intermediates, with the GMP equipment engineered to provide containment down to 1µg/m³.

As part of the SaiNxt transformation initiative, the company has executed investments of US$110M in expanding into new geographies, augmenting its capacity and operations, while raising the bar for quality, compliance and performance.