India's Polyclone collaborate with Greifswald Uni to engineer enzyme

Singapore: India based Polyclone, a biotech company with expertise in molecular, cell and computational biology has coll...

March 28, 2014 | Friday | News
Novozymes, Holck-Larsen Foundation come together to groom talent

Mumbai: Novozymes and the Holck-Larsen Foundation have joined forces to work with Danish universities to set up a scient...

August 14, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Abbott opens R&D center in tie-up with Syngene

Bangalore: Dr Sam Pitroda, advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations...

June 5, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Venus CMD: We focus on life threatening diseases

India-based Venus Remedies, which is located in Chandigarh, came into existence way back in September 1989 as Venus Gluc...

December 7, 2012 | Friday | Influencers
New Indian drug pricing policy to affect 30% market

New Delhi: The India group of ministers, who were constituted to finalize the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy, ha...

September 28, 2012 | Friday | News
India starts national registry for stroke patients

Bangalore: After the successful compilation of India's National Cancer Registry, the first of its kind for any disease i...

January 18, 2013 | Friday | News
AZ launches patented heart-saving drug in India

Bangalore: AstraZeneca Pharma India (AZPIL) announced the launch of a new patented antiplatelet drug BRILINTA (Ticagrel...

October 18, 2012 | Thursday | News
India's largest healthcare project launched

Singapore: In a PPP initiative Dr Satish Pawar, director health services, Mr Akhil Khan,vice chairman Ensocare, Dr Shaki...

March 7, 2014 | Friday | News
India bioinformatics on growth trajectory

The India bioinformatics market registered CAGR of 15 percent during the beginning of the year 2000. However, the growth...

August 9, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
'Vaccine business: A game of snakes-and-ladders'

India: The annual revenue of the global vaccine industry is expected to be $35 billion for 2014. With Compounded Annual...

April 2, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
Eye clinic on wheels for north India

New Delhi: Noted entrepreneur and philanthropist Mr Tej Kohli is all set to launch the Drishti Rath, a complete eye clin...

July 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Dr Reddy's launches Eszopiclone tablets in US

Singapore: Dr Reddy's Laboratories has launched sedative drug, Eszopiclone tablets (C-IV) 1 mg, 2 mg and 3 mg, a therape...

April 16, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Bangalore India Bio 2013 promises a new look

Bangalore: The Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science and Technology, Government of Karnataka, ...

September 25, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Ocimum appoints partner to sell TB kit in Europe

Bangalore: Ocimed signed a distribution agreement for Ocimum Biosolutions' research product, the Spoligotyping kit. Pre...

November 13, 2012 | Tuesday | News
CROs and BPOs give pharmacovigilance a new edge

Demand in emerging markets is opening up newer opportunities across various sectors and life sciences companies have sev...

September 17, 2012 | Monday | Opinion
Diabetes, cardiac drugs to be 35 percent cheaper'

Singapore: National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has fixed the prices of 108 formulation packs of 50 anti-dia...

July 17, 2014 | Thursday | News
India's miracle weight loss pill

Singapore: Green coffee bean is fast becoming a popular weight loss treatment as people do not have to do anything diffe...

July 17, 2014 | Thursday | News
Nano training to be given at Bangalore Nano 2012

Bangalore: The department of information technology (IT), biotechnology (BT) and science and technology (S&T), Gover...

August 31, 2012 | Friday | News
ICAR transfers vaccine technology to Sanvita

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sanvita Biotechno...

July 26, 2012 | Thursday | News
Inventys Research plant gets ISO 9001:2008 certification

Mumbai: India-based Inventys Research has received ISO 9001:2008 management system accreditation from the Indian Registr...

June 8, 2012 | Friday | News
DIA to host its first IT-life sciences summit in India

Mumbai: DIA is hosting the first 'IT Life Sciences Summit 2012: Technology Enabled Pharmaceutical Business Transformatio...

August 27, 2012 | Monday | News
Computer simulated skin to be used in allergy testing

Pune: Bio-Modeling Systems (BMSystems) and Persistent Systems entered into a joint systems biology R&D initiative. ...

April 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Cipla to buy Cipla Medpro South Africa for $512 mn

Singapore: Cipla has shown its intent to acquire 100 percent ordinary shares of Cipla Medpro South Africa for $1.13 (ZAR...

February 28, 2013 | Thursday | News
SRL Diagnostics is born

New Delhi: Super Religare Laboratories (SRL) will be now known as 'SRL Limited' with brand identity of 'SRL Diagnostics....

August 31, 2012 | Friday | News
Ocimum gets Frost & Sullivan customer value award

Hyderabad: Ocimum Biosolutions won the Customer Value Enhancement Award for Laboratory Information Management in India,...

October 9, 2012 | Tuesday | News
DBT, Cipla, IISc awarded by Thomson Reuters

New Delhi: Four organizations have been recognized as India's most innovative and named as the recipients of the Thomso...

November 23, 2012 | Friday | News
Lupin announces 2 new R&D centres in US

Singapore: In a bid to focus on research in inhalation and on complex formulations, Indian drug major Lupin is setting u...

July 9, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Aspen acquires pharma division of Sigma

Singapore: Sigma Pharmaceuticals has agreed to sell its over-the-counter and pharmaceutical divisions to Aspen Global. U...

August 22, 2012 | Wednesday | News
FDA clears 152 antiretroviral drugs for HIV/AIDS program

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved or tentatively approved a total of 152 antiretroviral ...

July 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Piramal to distribute Merisant's sweetner, Equal

Singapore: Piramal Enterprises has partnered with Merisant India for an exclusive sales and distribution partnership in ...

April 14, 2014 | Monday | News
India's CRO industry raises concerns at workshop

New Delhi: At a media workshop on the clinical research industry (CRO) held at Delhi on July 13, 2012, industry experts ...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | News
Wockhardt to launch generic BP drug

Singapore: Wockhardt received final approval from the US FDA for marketing extended-release tablets containing 2.5mg, 5m...

August 22, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
GE Healthcare, Fortis pioneer Asia's first eICU

New Delhi: Fortis Healthcare and GE Healthcare have launched Asia's first electronic intensive care unit (eICU) facility...

July 9, 2012 | Monday | News
Biologics: Indian companies address quality issues

In recent years, licensing and quality control for manufacturers and national regulatory authorities has become more com...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Dept of health, biotech sign MoU for affordable health

New Delhi: Dr V M Katoch, secretary, Department of Health Research (DHR), and Dr M K Bhan, secretary, Department of Biot...

October 4, 2012 | Thursday | News
Sanofi to supply 1.7 bn polio vaccines to GPEI

Bangalore: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, will provide 1.7 billion doses of oral polio vaccine (OPV) t...

April 26, 2013 | Friday | News
India suffers adverse effects of clinical research

Everything does not seem to be well in the pharmaceutical industry of Asia's third largest economy - India. Although the...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Take gets Oracle PartnerNetwork specialized status

Chennai: Take Solutions, a leader in the supply chain management (SCM) and life sciences domains and a Gold level membe...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | News
APAC's NSCLC market to show robust growth by 2019

Singapore: The GBI Research has revealed that the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) therapeutics market value in the As...

March 21, 2014 | Friday | News
Urbanization causes elderly health suffering in India

Bangalore: A report titled, 'Preventive Care and Healthy Ageing Global Perspective', released by the the Economist Intel...

September 28, 2012 | Friday | News
Agilent India head: Declining Rupee has hit imports

Agilent Technologies has come a long way since its inception in a garage at Palo Alto in California, US. A company that ...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Novartis hits out at India's IPR environment

New Delhi: After losing a patent case for its cancer drug Glivec, drug maker Novartis has lashed out at India's way of d...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
Which domain of clinical research do APAC CROs focus on?

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
TAKE Solutions announces Q4 results

Bangalore: TAKE Solutions, a leader in the supply chain management (SCM) in the life sciences (LS) domain, announced its...

May 28, 2012 | Monday | Company results
Wockhardt gets FDA nod for generic treatment of enlarged prostate

Mumbai: Pharmaceutical and biotechnology major Wockhardt has received final approval from the US Food & Drug Adminis...

August 15, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Imagenex on mission against osteoporosis

India is one of the largest affected countries in the world suffering from osteoporosis. This is evident from the fact t...

March 16, 2012 | Friday | News
Wockhardt gets FDA nod for epilepsy generic

Mumbai: Pharmaceutical and biotechnology major, Wockhardt, has received final approval from the US FDA for marketing 25...

January 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Ranbaxy's fall from grace

Not long ago, it was one of India's iconic companies. Ranbaxy, which is now a subsidiary of Japanese giant Daiichi Sanky...

May 29, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
GVK, Onconova to develop cancer drugs

Singapore: GVK Bio and US-based Onconova Therapeutics entered into a novel joint partnership to develop new drugs for c...

January 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
India's Bliss Pharma denies FDA allegations of fake drugs

Singapore: Indian pharmaceutical company, Bliss Pharmaceuticals, denied the allegations made by the US FDA terming the m...

October 7, 2013 | Monday | News
Glenmark launches first UK generic after dispute

Mumbai: Glenmark Generics Europe (GGEL), launched its first generic drug, Atovaquone Proguanil, in the UK following the...

February 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Avantor starts cGMP chemical plant in India

Singapore: US-based Avantor Performance Materials, a global manufacturer and supplier of high-performance chemistries an...

June 13, 2013 | Thursday | News
GSK invests $136.5 mn on new unit in India

Singapore: In a bid to increase its revenues from the emerging markets, British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has said that...

November 15, 2013 | Friday | News
RPG issued warning letter by US FDA

Singapore: In what has come as another shocker for the Indian Pharmaceutical industry, the US FDA slammed RPG Life Scien...

June 24, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
Milestone payment for NTS vaccine project

Bangalore: Bharat Biotech and The University of Maryland Center for Vaccine Development have received a $4 million strat...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | News
Dr. Reddy's rides on biosimilar product line

India-headquartered Dr Reddy's Laboratories is making a strong name in biosimilars business in India and in the world....

June 15, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
India's FIPB clears more FDI deals

New Delhi: India's finance ministry has released a statement announcing that the country's Foreign Investment Promotion ...

October 1, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Roche India appoints new MD

Singapore: Roche Diagnostics India, a company in the in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry, announced the appointment of D...

July 19, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Indian pharma got highest-ever FDI in Apr-Jun 2013

Singapore: India's pharmaceutical industry received the highest FDI ever during April-to-June 2013 as compared to the $...

September 2, 2013 | Monday | News
Trademark dispute victory for Dr Reddy's

Singapore: Leading India drug maker Dr Reddy's Laboratories Limited has won a trade mark dispute related court case file...

November 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Report: Global diabetes pipeline has 221 drugs

Mumbai: A report released by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) revealed that biopharmaceu...

November 27, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Sun Pharma to buy Ranbaxy for $3.2 billion

Singapore: Paving way for a historical deal in the Indian pharma industry, Indian drug major Sun Pharmaceutical industri...

April 7, 2014 | Monday | News
Sun Pharma to acquire Ranbaxy

Singapore: India based generics firm Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has announced to acquire Ranbaxy Laboratories through...

April 7, 2014 | Monday | News
Scientists sequence mitogenome of core crop pest

Singapore: Phytophagous ladybird beetle, Henosepilachna pusillanima (Mulsant), synonym of Epilachnadodecastigma (Wiedema...

April 7, 2014 | Monday | News
Dr. Reddy's launches generic of Boniva

Bangalore: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has launched Ibandronate sodium tablets (150 mg), a bioequivalent generic version of...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | News
Challenge No 6: Regulatory hurdles

The regulatory environment for life sciences companies is known for its challenging nature. The framework is confusing a...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Mangalore suspects MERS case

Bangalore: MERS scare swirls up in India, as Karnataka health officials and health minister Mr U T Khader confirmed a su...

May 29, 2014 | Thursday | News
GE to invest $120 mn to improve cancer care in India

Singapore: The centers will offer latest technology for diagnosing and treating cancer, and will follow the same standar...

April 3, 2014 | Thursday | News
Lupin acquires Mexican firm Laboratorios Grin

Singapore: Foraying into South American pharmaceutical market, India based Lupin Pharmaceutical has acquired Mexico firm...

March 31, 2014 | Monday | News
Asia pharma industry to touch $386 bn:Report

Singapore: As Asia emerges as a major engine of global economic growth, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries ...

December 5, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Healthcare equity investment grows by 125% in APAC, declines in west

Singapore: As the global investment community continues its recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, the total value of ...

March 28, 2014 | Friday | News
MERS alert in AP, India

Singapore: As MERS is multiplying incessantly, authorities in Indian state Andhra Pradesh, have issued an advisory to tr...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Indian drug makers get 15 days on price revision

New Delhi: In a bid to move towards strict enforcement of the new drug pricing policy in India, the country's National P...

October 1, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Should we trust the credit ratings?

Political events in India and the government's lack of conviction on policy matters have taken their toll on India's ima...

September 7, 2012 | Friday | Influencers
ASSOCHAM pushes for market-based drug pricing in India

Bangalore: The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) apprehends that the Supreme Court rulin...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
Mylan buys Strides Acrolab's Agila for $1.6 bn cash

Bangalore: Mylan has signed a definitive agreement with Strides Arcolab to acquire its generic injectable products unit,...

February 28, 2013 | Thursday | News
Let's make India known for innovations'

As a scientist-turned entrepreneur, my journey has taken a long time, with many struggles along the way. For an entrepre...

March 25, 2014 | Tuesday | Opinion
"Import duty on medical instruments must be reduced"

Singapore: Mr Saurabh Gupta, Principal Consultant, Healthcare Advisory Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers India speaks t...

April 2, 2014 | Wednesday | Influencers
What are angel investors looking for?

Healthcare, biotech, pharma and life sciences are sectors that involve patient bunch of people who are willing to wait f...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
BioSpecifics, Auxilium, Sobi join hands for Xiapex

Singapore: US-based BioSpecifics Technologies, a biopharmaceutical company, and its partner Auxilium Pharmaceuticals hav...

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Glenmark generics business grows by 34%

Singapore: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has consolidated $254.45 million for the third quarter ending December 31, 2012, mar...

January 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Sanofi and UCB join hands for drug innovation

Singapore: These molecules will have the potential to treat a wide range of immune-mediated diseases in areas such as ga...

March 20, 2014 | Thursday | News
US biosimilars market to be $9 bn by 2020

Singapore: A new report by global business intelligence firm GBI Research has highlighted that the massive potential for...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Dr. Reddy's launches generics of Amoxil

Bangalore: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories launched Amoxicillin tablets, capsules, and oral suspension, a bioequivalent generi...

September 24, 2012 | Monday | News
Report: Indian pharma to look away from generics

Singapore: According to a new report by Research and Markets tilted, 'Niche drug revolution: Has India's generics boom p...

August 22, 2013 | Thursday | News
India's Ranbaxy to launch generic Diovan in US

Singapore: In spite of regulatory downfalls and issues, India's leading drug maker, Ranbaxy Laboratories has finally dec...

June 27, 2014 | Friday | News
Thermo Fisher opens its CEC project in India

Singapore: Speaking exclusively to BioSpectrum, Dr Joydeep Goswami, president, APAC and Japan, Life Sciences Solutions, ...

June 28, 2014 | Saturday | News
Lab-on-chips usher in an era of shrinking labs

Gone would be the days when patients will have to walk-in to their pathologists for diagnosis of a disease and wait for ...

December 6, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Mr Harish Nuggehalli & Mr Ashwin Sreenivasan: Focus on quality, cost will intensify in 2013

We are looking to take several initiatives in 2013, including the development of a local eco-system of vendors by connec...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
Generics challenge pharma drug pricing regime

Healthcare systems, globally, are grappling with different facets of the same problem: How to provide affordable healthc...

July 4, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
Schott to advise Bureau of Indian Standards

Mumbai: The international technology group Schott has been appointed to India's national standards body. As a new Bureau...

March 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Two Glenmark Pharma arms receive nod to merge

Singapore: Indian pharma major, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has received an approval from the fair trade watchdog, Competit...

March 10, 2014 | Monday | News
DCGI: Allegations of fake Indian drugs baseless

Singapore: The public information cell of the Drugs Controller General of India has issued a statement contradicting a N...

March 10, 2014 | Monday | News
Co-Diagnostics, DNA Logix JV to target poor nations

Singapore: US-based Co-Diagnostics and DNA Logix have formed a joint venture, Co-Diagnostics HBDC to address diagnostic ...

July 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Ranbaxy taking steps to meet US FDA concerns

Singapore: Ranbaxy Laboratories that has been in the face of controversy after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

September 27, 2013 | Friday | News
Average bioscience R&D spend in APAC down 50%

The research and development (R&D) spend in Asia Pacific in 2011 was down by 50 percent to an average of 6.58 percen...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
India: PSUs need to be revived to boost generics

Singapore: Raising concerns related to the fate of people who cannot afford expensive branded medicines, India's parliam...

August 20, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BioAzure to sell Repligen products in India

Singapore: BioAzure Technologies the exclusive distribution partner for US-based Repligen has launched an enhanced line ...

December 7, 2012 | Friday | News
One third of world's unimmunized children in India

Singapore: Marking the start of the World Immunization Week, the Hilleman Laboratories, an equal joint-venture partnersh...

April 29, 2014 | Tuesday | News
APAC witnesses boom in biotech investment: GlobalData

Singapore: Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is experiencing a significant boom in the volume of private equity (PE) and ventur...

March 7, 2014 | Friday | Analysis

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