History

Kymos S.L. was founded in 2001 by a team of R&D scientists with decades of experience in pharmaceutical development from early research to final formulation and scale up trials for commercialization. The company was established at the Barcelona Science Park and rapidly expanded despite high competition. In 2011 Kymos took over Ipsen Pharma’s immunology team to create a pioneering biological division. In 2015 Kymos moved to a brand-new laboratory at the Vallès Technology Park. In 2016 Kymos acquired Italian CRO Pharmaprogress. In 2018, steady growth called for two successive extensions with a new office building and laboratories. In 2020 Kymos acquired German CRO Proytic. In 2021 the Kymos Group is made up of a two-building HQ plus two European sites, 14 laboratory departments, 170 highly trained experts, and 5,000 m2 worth of facilities and top-of-the-line instruments. In 2023-2024 our Italian site was expanded with a new building, and a lab extension has started in Spain.

2024

Our new building (1800 sqm) in Italy has been officially inaugurated at the start of the year, and all the equipment and projects have been moved to our new location in Monsano. Work has started on the lab extension in Spain (+600 sqm).

picture of the front door of Pharmaprogress' new lab

2023

Kymos received the official certification by ANVISA (Agència Nacional de Vigilància Sanitária)for bioequivalence studies and was granted permission to participate in these studies for submission in Brazil. Work on Pharmaprogress new building has been finalized and we have started moving.

2022

2022 Kymos acquired a more spacious, convenient, and state-of-the-art building in the Ancona area. Parts of the building need renovation and there is still a lot of work ahead of us. But next year, Pharmaprogress can finally move into its new modern facilities.

2021

Kymos is a very international company. Besides the three sites in different European countries, we also work for clients all over the world. In 2021 we exceeded for the first time the number of 40 countries in which our customers are located covering all continents.

2020

In October 2020, Kymos merged with the German bioanalytical laboratory Prolytic GmbH located in Frankfurt. Prolytic had 16 people on staff and was specialisted in bioanalysis of small, large molecules as well as oligo nucleotides and pharmacokinetics.

2019

In May, Kymos expanded again its facilities with new Analytical Development and Biopharmaceutical Testing laboratories. During the year, batch testing services for biosimilars and Asian clients are driving the company growth.

2019

On April the FDA finished the inspection of Pharmaprogrees site in Ancona confirming this facility as eligible for marketing applications in the US. It has been a documentary inspection based on the previous AIFA (Agenzie Italiana del Farmaco) inspection thanks to the new Mutual Recognition Agreement existing between EMA e FDA.

2018

In August, Prolytic moved to a larger and state of the art location at Weismüllerstraße 45. Doubling the size the 15-strong team now had 800 m² of laboratory and office space to offer the best bioanalytics and pharmacokinetics for its clients.

2018

In July, Kymos expanded its facilities moving the offices to a new free-standing building close to the existing one. This new building has a training room, an archive, different meeting rooms and a cafeteria.

2017

In July, Kymos underwent a general site inspection by the FDA. The inspection was completed succesfully and the corresponding EIR letter was issued.

2016

In November 2016, the company acquired a CRO in Italy called Pharmaprogress. The company was located in Ancona and had 8 people on staff. This company had a 700 m2 of laboratories for bioanalysis and analytical development of APIs and DPs. Nowadays, the company has been fully integrated into Kymos and now has 16 people on staff.

2015

In January 2015, the company moved its facilities from Barcelona (Barcelona Science Park) to a free-standing buiding in Cerdanyola del Vallès (Vallès Technology Park). A brand-new laboratory was built, increasing the surface area from 650 m2 to 1,500 m2. This meant the company could boost turnover and grow its staff in 2015 and 2016. The same year Kymos obtained the importation autorization for medicinal products. Batch release services for marketing products were implemented.

2012

In January 2012, Kymos reached an agreement to take over the immunology department of a former R&D centre that French multinational group IPSEN had in Barcelona. Thanks to this deal, Kymos was able to create a new biological division. Experienced staff, instruments and know-how were transferred to Kymos and both companies signed a long-term collaboration agreement to develop innovative drugs jointly.

2011

In 2011, Kymos built a microbiology laboratory and extended its GMP certification to microbiological testing of non-sterile products. This certification was later extended further to cover sterile products in 2016.

2009

In 2009, the company obtained GMP and Manufacturer authorization (partial manufacturer for quality control activities). From this point, Kymos moved all CMC activities (mainly analytical development and stability studies) to GMP quality system and begun to provide quality control services for APIs and DPs.

2009

Pharmaprogress was GMP approved for chemical and physical testing by Italian Agency of Medicinal Products (AIFA) on January 2009.
The last authorization is n. aM-119/2016 of July 22nd, 2016, relating the following tests on Human Medicinal Products:
1.6.3 GMP Quality Control chemical and physical Tests
1.6.3 GMP Quality Control chemical and physical Tests on Investigational Medicinal Products

2003

Prolytic was GLP certified by the Regierungspräsidium of Darmstadt in catergory 1 and 8.
Category 1: Physical and chemical properties and determination of content
Category 8: Analytical studies on biological materials

2002

Kymos obtained the GLP certification in 2002, at the very beginning. The first projects were in metabolism and bioanalysis.

2002

Prolytic was founded. The roots of Prolytic GmbH can be traced back to Viatris GmbH & Co. KG, part of ASTA Medica AG, a pharmaceutical research company and formerly wholly owned subsidiary of Degussa AG. Viatris GmbH & Co. KG was sold to a finance investor who closed down the drug development sections “Bioanalysis” and “Pharmacokinetics.” An experienced group of scientists from these sections founded Prolytic GmbH in December 2002 with the aim of offering their abundant experience in bioanalysis and pharmacokinetics to clients in the pharmaceutical sector.

2001

Pharmaprogress begun to provide services to third parties as CRO in 2001, despite the legal entity was previously founded in 1999. A fit-to-purpose laboratory of 700 m2 was built in Camerata Picena, near Ancona and it was GLP approved by Italian Health Authorities. The Company was founded by a former manager of an Italian pharmaceutical company.

2001

Kymos was founded in 2001 by an R&D team from Menarini with more than 10 years of experience in research and deveelopment in the pharmaceutical industry. The staff members were clients before being suppliers, acquiring extensive knowledge of the pharma company requirements and priorities. This experience allowed Kymos to start-up the company quickly, despite being in this highly competitive market. The company was initially established in Barcelona Science Park, expanding from one to four different labs in just few years.