GVK BIO, a Hyderabad, India-based discovery R&D organization, will acquire Vanta Bioscience, a full-service preclinical GLP toxicology and safety assessment CRO operating from Chennai, India.

Vanta Bioscience offers toxicology evaluation services for the pharmaceutical, biotech, food supplements and feed additives industries, as well as toxicology services using alternative methods for the cosmetics industry.

Vanta Bioscience is GLP and AAALAC accredited and its facility houses GLP-trained scientific personnel with experience in study design and execution of regulatory directed studies leading to IND filings.