Irvine Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. Introduces New Fill-And-Finish Subsidiary; January 2009 Launch of Avrio Biopharmaceuticals

IRVINE, CA – Irvine Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., today announced the forthcoming January 2009 launch of Avrio Biopharmaceuticals. This venture is part of Irvine’s overall growth strategy focused on improving its services and product offerings to current and potential clients.

Outfitted with an experienced team and state of the art equipment, Avrio Biopharma will provide a full range of formulation development and aseptic fill-and-finish services. It will be focused on developing optimized production processes and providing dependable filling, lyophilization and packaging capabilities for early phase clinical trial materials.

“We are very excited about this extension of our company,” said Assad J. Kazeminy, CEO and Founder of Irvine Pharmaceutical Services. “Avrio will help round out our existing capabilities and its connection to Irvine will also make it possible to provide our clients with broader services via seamless partnership.”

Since early 2007, Irvine Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., has experienced extensive growth and has made significant upgrades in its lab equipment and infrastructure. The opening of Avrio Biopharma is yet another step along the same growth lines, striving to better serve the needs of the company’s clients and the pharmaceutical industry.

You can meet the team and learn more about Irvine and its new company, Avrio, at the AAPS Annual Meeting, booth 1707.

About Irvine

Irvine Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. is a fully integrated services provider that works with pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies through all phases of research and development. Founded in 1988 and committed to expansion and services that benefit its clients’ priorities directly, Irvine is a fully cGMP compliant pharmaceutical product development and contract testing laboratory located in Irvine, CA. Irvine is able to support clients with analytical method validation, stability testing, aseptic filling, HPLC analysis, and pharmaceutical development. Visit www.irvinepharma.com or call (877) 445-6554. To learn more about Irvine's pharmaceutical contract manufacturing affiliate, Avrio Biopharmaceuticals, visit www.avriobiopharma.com.

10 Vanderbilt
Irvine, California 92618
P: (877) 445-6554
F: (949) 951-4909
www.irvinepharma.com

Avrio Biopharmaceuticals
4 Chrysler
Irvine, California 92618
P: (866) 98-AVRIO (982-8746)
F: (949) 462-0821
www.avriobiopharma.com

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