From two assets to three continents
A global, Swiss-based full-service CRO built on know-how, a network, and an obsession with patient outcomes.
Our story
CEBIS began with know-how and a network. Before founding the company, our team built and ran clinical operations across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa — including the EMEA clinical-research operations of a US-based CRO. We started CEBIS in Bucharest on the Functional Service Provider model, then built our own capabilities — monitoring, data management, biostatistics, medical writing, regulatory affairs — transitioning to a Full-Service Provider within four years.
We entered a market that trusted only the big, established names. We won a different way: shared-risk, milestone-based partnerships, and an obsession with client outcomes over our own margins. In 2016 we moved our headquarters to Lugano, Switzerland; in 2017 we became a full-service global CRO. Our growth has been entirely organic — reinvested profit and new technology, never acquisitions — because we’d rather build partnerships that last than buy scale.
Today CEBIS operates in 29 countries across three continents, with two divisions — Clinical & Regulatory Services and Patient Support Programs — and our own Trial-HUB® technology at the core.
What CEBIS means
Milestones
2011 — Transitioned from FSP to Full-Service Provider within four years.
2016 — Headquarters relocated to Lugano, Switzerland.
2017 — Became a full-service global CRO.
Today — 29 countries, three continents, two divisions, Trial-HUB® platform.
Leadership
Mihai Manolache, PhD
President & CEO · Founder
Background spanning medicine, law and economics: postgraduate study in immunology and genetics (University of Bucharest), executive education at Harvard Medical School, legal training in medical-research law, and a PhD in Clinical Trials Management. Has directed 200+ international clinical studies across Europe and the Balkans, and previously led the EMEA clinical-operations build-out for a US-based CRO.
Andreea Manolache, MS
Vice-President & Co-Founder
Leads all operational and administrative functions — operations, human resources, process improvement, compliance and strategic planning. Responsible for the day-to-day engine that turns CEBIS’s strategy into delivered studies and supported patients.
Mission, vision & values
Vision — To become a global leader in clinical research and patient support, proving that scientific rigor and genuine patient-centricity belong together.
Mission — To help patients obtain a precise diagnosis, access the best available treatments, and stay on therapy for the best possible outcome — accelerating safe, effective treatments through experience, professionalism and ethics.
- Aligned incentives — we share risk and reward through milestone-based partnerships.
- Patients first — every decision is weighed against the patient it serves.
- Quality we can prove — an independently structured QMS and KPI-measured execution.
- Own it end to end — our own facilities, platform and clinical teams mean fewer hand-offs.
- Grow by earning it — organic growth built on client satisfaction, not acquisitions.