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LaFrance & Associates provides executive search services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with specific emphasis on technology positions - pre-clinical and development pharmaceutical science. By focusing on this technical specialty, we know how to find high-achieving pharmacology, pharmaceutics and analytical scientists which we can attract to your company. Our techno-centric focus provides us the core business knowledge to seek scientific talent from entry level through senior executives.

Talent for the Pharmaceutical Universe

As consultants, we are known by the companies we keep. Since 1989, a sizable number of companies have used our services to locate and secure the best available talent. The range of our services include:

Basic Pharmaceutical Research
We are one of the very few recruiting firms who are actively involved in broad areas of sophisticated biological and biochemical research. Scientists we have placed are actively working on the forefront of new and emerging technologies in chemistry, immunology, molecular biology, bioinformatics, proteonomics and polymer science.

Pre-Clinical Development
We are especially well known for our experience and rapid performance with scientists and managers from pre-clinical science through pre-formulations and formulations development. Our experience here is broad and far reaching with both small and large molecule programs.

Pharmaceutical Development
Our most active segment, because of the sophisticated technologies involving Pharmaceutics, Analytical Chemistry, Technology Transfer and Project Management through to Operations and final shipment of products. Our standard services include finding the very best to enable our clients to ship products rapidly with maximum cost effectiveness.

Senior Management
Clients come to us for our technology base, but then use us to fill their senior management ranks. Our skills and understanding of the technologies involved enable us to quickly fill senior management openings from a short list of technically capable managers. Our clients make their decisions based on the intangibles with the foreknowledge that our candidates are well screened and technically sound.

Key Players for Meaningful Roles

For industry talent in science through general management, you can count on us. Our specialization and commitment to the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industry gives us the edge over generalists who only dabble in the non-technical areas of our industry.