Global Pathology Support B.V. deals with preclinical safety – toxicologic pathology - for the pharmaceutical, biotechnical and chemical industry.
We offer you these services applying high quality standards, in a flexible, fast and efficient way using one of the best Pathology Systems for histopathology assessment.
Dr. R.J.M.M. Thoolen was born in Breda, The Netherlands. Dr. Thoolen more than 25 years working experience as a pathologist. He worked as a principal pathologist at Solvay Pharmaceuticals.
(GPS) is a consultancy company, founded in 2004 in the Netherlands. GPS specializes in the pre-clinical pathology evaluation of chemicals in toxicology studies for safety assessment. Our services focus on safety of products that are developed by the (bio-)pharmaceutical and chemical industry for registration of e.g. medicines, vaccines. GPS also provides services according to the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) agreement for the safety evaluation of chemicals in compliance to the OECD-Guidelines.
As part of GPS continuing commitment to enable our clients to reach their development goals, we are now excited, next to conventional histopathology using the light microscope, to also deliver innovative GLP validated Digital Pathology; Full Histopathology Evaluations and Peer Review solutions from preclinical toxicology studies on a Global scale. This option (Digital Pathology) can now also be performed from scans of histology slides from a large number of whole slide image formats (e.g. Hamamatsu, 3DHistech, Olympus, Aperio/Leica, Ventana/Roche, Philips, Zeiss scanners etc. ).
Vision statement
Drugs, chemicals and vaccines are safe and have no or least possible negative side effects.
Mission statement
At GPS B.V. we establish the safest dose of drugs, chemicals and vaccines by conducting toxicologic pathology research.
Member of:
NVVP - Dutch Society for Pathology
NVT – Toxicologic Society of the Netherlands
STP - Society of Toxicologic Pathology
ESTP - European Society of Toxicologic Pathology
BSTP - British Society of Toxicologic Pathology
Vision statement
Drugs, chemicals and vaccines are safe and have no or least possible negative side effects.
Mission statement
At GPS B.V. we establish the safest dose of drugs, chemicals and vaccines by conducting toxicologic pathology research.
Member of:
NVVP - Dutch Society for Pathology
NVT – Toxicologic Society of the Netherlands
STP - Society of Toxicologic Pathology
SOT - Society of Toxicology
ESTP - European Society of Toxicologic Pathology
BSTP - British Society of Toxicologic Pathology
We offer you these services applying high quality standards, in a flexible, fast and efficient way using one of the best Pathology Systems (Provantis® – Instem LSS) for histopathology assessment.
Global Pathology Support plays a key role for the delivery of sound scientific, accurate and GLP-compliant pathology data from preclinical toxicity and carcinogenicity studies. In order to do that, a GLP-compliant quality system is legally mandatory. GPS works according to Good Laboratory Practice for over 17 years now.
This guarantees our clients for over 35 countries world-wide, with GLP-compliant reports derived from GPS, that can readily be used for registration according to the respective National Authorities.
Churchillplein 6D
2517 JW Den Haag
the Netherlands