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As a leading contract research organization, Southern Research provides drug discovery and preclinical drug development services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and governmental enterprises on an outsourced basis, as well as specialized and highly advanced engineering research and development services to the aerospace, automotive, defense, and energy industries. In addition, Southern Research has a successful in-house drug discovery team primarily funded through government, grant-based support.
Since its founding in 1941, Southern Research has developed strong relationships with life science enterprises, initially by providing basic discovery services and later through expanded service offerings including preclinical drug development contract research as well as clinical trial support. With the advent of recent scientific and technological advances, such as genomics, Southern Research has broadened its services in order to provide clients in all phases of the early-stage drug discovery and development process with comprehensive services and support to assist them in streamlining their custom drug discovery and development programs.
Southern Research also has established itself as a leader in contract engineering research services in highly technical industry sectors. Currently, Southern Research offers comprehensive engineering services including specialized materials testing, electromechanical systems design, pollution control measurement, and noise and vibration evaluation to more than 60 clients including the Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, Mercedes-Benz, NASA, and the Southern Company. Recently, the Carbon-to-Liquids Development Center was established in Durham, NC to facilitate the commercial acceptance of technologies relating to conversion of diverse non-petroleum carbon sources to high-value products such as diesel fuel, jet fuel, methanol, ethanol, ammonia and electric power.