Press Releases & Company Updates

WuXi AppTec Wuhan Site Resumes Operation

SHANGHAI, March 11, 2020 – WuXi AppTec announced today that the company’s Wuhan site has resumed operations, in compliance with local regulations and global COVID-19 health and safety guidelines. Operations at the Wuhan facility, which provides discovery chemistry services, will ramp up over the coming days and weeks. With this site’s re-opening, WuXi AppTec has now resumed operations at all facilities in China. WuXi AppTec is taking every precaution to ensure the health and safety of its employees across every site.

WuXi AppTec China Sites Resume Operations after Extended Lunar New Year Holiday

SHANGHAI, February 12, 2020 - With the end of the extended Lunar New Year holiday, WuXi AppTec sites in China have resumed operations today, with the exception of our site in Wuhan, which will reopen when local regulations permit. These steps are being taken in compliance with disease control guidelines pertaining to the coronavirus outbreak and with the utmost attention to the health and safety of our employees and their families.

WuXi STA Opens Oligonucleotide Large-Scale Manufacturing Facility

Shanghai, January 3, 2020: STA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., (WuXi STA) – a subsidiary of WuXi AppTec – today announced the opening of its large-scale oligonucleotide active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing facility in Changzhou, China. This significant milestone marks WuXi STA’s establishment of a comprehensive one-stop platform to support the process R&D and manufacture of oligonucleotide APIs from preclinical to commercial. It enables customers around the world to advance promising new oligonucleotide therapies more rapidly to market for the benefit of patients.

WuXi AppTec's Lab Testing Division Expands Toxicology Facility in Suzhou, China

SHANGHAI, Nov. 18, 2019 - WuXi AppTec, a leading global provider of R&D and manufacturing services enabling companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced its Lab Testing Division (LTD) has expanded the Suzhou safety assessment facility by increasing toxicology capacity by 80% to meet global customers’ preclinical testing needs and enable them to accelerate the development timelines and bring innovative medicines to patients faster.

WuXi AppTec Receives 2019 Global Integrated Drug Development Competitive Strategy Innovation & Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan

SHANGHAI, Nov. 15, 2019 -- WuXi AppTec, a leading global provider of R&D and manufacturing services enabling companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced that it received the 2019 Global Integrated Drug Development Competitive Strategy Innovation & Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan, a global business research and consulting firm. WuXi AppTec was awarded this honor for the third consecutive year.