- CEO
- Umang Vohra
- Full Time Employees
- 5,051
- Sector
- Health technology
- Industry
- Pharmaceuticals: major
- Address
- A-Wing, Galaxy Towers Hyderabad TS India 500081
- IPO Date
- Mar 9, 2020
- Business
- Cohance Lifesciences Limited (COHANCE.NS), formerly Suven Pharmaceuticals Limited, is an India-based, technology-driven contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that provides end-to-end contract research, development, and manufacturing services for new chemical entity (NCE)-based intermediates, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and finished dosage formulations to global pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and fine chemical companies. The company offers comprehensive CDMO services including custom synthesis, process research and development, scale-up, and contract manufacturing of intermediates, APIs, and formulations; clinical, analytical, and research services; finished dosage formulations; specialty chemicals such as electronic chemicals; and advanced solutions in complex chemistries like cyanation and heterocyclic compounds covering pyrimidines, quinolones, thiazoles, and imidazoles, with core competencies supporting challenging development and manufacturing needs across clinical trial materials, regulatory support, quality assurance, and supply chain management. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Hyderabad, India, with manufacturing facilities in Genome Valley and R&D centers there, Cohance Lifesciences operates geographically in India, the USA (through subsidiary NJ Bio Inc. in Princeton, New Jersey), Europe, and the rest of the world, serving leading global life science innovators as a subsidiary of Berhyanda Limited. Recent major developments include its name change from Suven Pharmaceuticals Limited in May 2025 following the completion of a merger with Cohance Lifesciences that received final Department of Pharmaceuticals approval in 2025 to create an integrated global CDMO platform focused on high-growth modalities; a USD 10 million investment announced in August 2025 to establish a cGMP bioconjugation suite at NJ Bio for up to 2 kg Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) production for Phase 2b clinical supply, operational by Q4 FY26; Rs 230 million investment in a new cGMP oligonucleotide facility in Hyderabad; and a USD 16.5 million corporate guarantee extended in July 2025 to Citibank N.A. to support NJ Bio's USD 15 million credit facility for bioconjugation operations through June 2028.