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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--March 15, 2001

PharmQuest Corporation, the Biopharmaceutical eR&D Company, and Tufan, Inc., a leader in software product development, today announced a partnership to develop software solutions for the pharmaceutical

and biotech industries.

PharmQuest's unique technologies and services enable drug developers in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries to access, manage and streamline relevant decision-making information to improve the success rate and speed of drugs to market.

"PharmQuest's goal is to ensure the quality and timeliness of developing new lead molecules and biologics that are emerging from the post-genomic era," said Deepak Visweswaraiah, vice president of Engineering at PharmQuest. "This requires an enormous focus on the information generated and analyzed during the drug development phase. In partnering with Tufan, PharmQuest will make dramatic gains in providing the informatics solutions, knowledge bases, and the workflow framework to integrate this information. We are confident that this partnership will allow us to scale up our engineering organization."

Speaking of the partnership, Dr. Suhas Patil, CEO of Tufan Inc., said, "Tufan will leverage its software development expertise to enable PharmQuest to offer a comprehensive software solution that will help the Pharmaceutical industry to significantly accelerate the drug development process."

About Tufan

Tufan, Inc. is a software product development company serving the high tech industry. Founded in October 1999, and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., Tufan has an offshore product development center in Mumbai, India, with a strong engineering background in state of the art software technology, product development methodologies and processes. Additional information about Tufan is available at http://www.tufan.com.

About PharmQuest

PharmQuest Corporation, founded in 1999, is at the forefront of eR&D, which seeks to accelerate drug development via web-enabled tools and software solutions. eR&D is gaining wide acceptance among pharma industry leaders through e-initiatives. In its first year of operation, PharmQuest has partnered with 3 of the 10 largest pharmaceutical companies to achieve its mission of revolutionizing drug product development in the post-genomic era. Additional information about PharmQuest is available at http://www.pharmquest.com.

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