Indian Pharma Convention kick starts in Sept

Mumbai: Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association (IDMA) along with Association of Pharmaceutical Analysts (APA) are organi...

July 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
Quintiles gets CAP's first-ever Asia accreditation

Mumbai: Quintiles announced that its central laboratory in Mumbai, India, has received accreditation from the College o...

January 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
LeadInvent: Taking technology to drug research

A team of scientists working since 2002 at the Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at t...

March 16, 2012 | Friday | News
Mylan launches women care products in India

Mumbai: US-based Mylan's subsidiary, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, India, has launched a portfolio of women's care products in ...

June 27, 2013 | Thursday | News
Debate over compulsory licensing of Bayer's Nexavar

Thecase of Indian pharma company's request for a compulsory license to make a generic version of Bayer's patented drug t...

April 30, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
India biopharma revenues rise to $2.5 bn

The domestic biopharmaceuticals business saw a significant rise in its revenues to $1.3 billion during 2011-12, accounti...

August 7, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Glenmark-MSD patent suit put on hold by Indian HC

Singapore: In what looked like a patent suit that could stir further controversy about patenting in the life sciences in...

August 2, 2013 | Friday | News
Super-rapid diagnosis of dengue now possible

New Delhi: Dr Shama Bhat, CMD, Bhat Biotech, a Bangalore based diagnostic company, has said that rapid diagnostic tests ...

November 2, 2012 | Friday | News
XCode decodes DNA, wins BioSpectrum award

Dr Saleem Mohammad, who founded XCode Life Sciences in December 2010, first had the idea of starting this company while ...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Indian Thyroid Society recommends TSH screening

Bangalore: The Indian Thyroid Society (ITS), which has been executing various initiatives throughout the year to create ...

January 25, 2013 | Friday | News
Dr Vijay Datla to get FABA award at BioAsia 2013

Hyderabad: Dr Vijay Kumar Datla, chairman and managing director of Biological E, will be given FABA Special Award 2013 ...

January 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Indian PM unveils science & technology policy

New Delhi: The Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, unveiled the country's science, technology and innovation polic...

January 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Deep in debt Elder Pharma decides to sell itself

Singapore: India-based Elder Pharmaceuticals is said to be up for sale, according to a report published in the Economic ...

June 11, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Sun Pharma settles patent suit with Wyeth for $414 mn

Singapore: Indian pharma giant Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has said that it will be paying its dues of $414.65 million...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Sanofi declares results of Lantus clinical trial

Bangalore: The results of the landmark ORIGIN (Outcome Reduction with Initial Glargine Intervention) trial showed that L...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | News
TCS named 'leader in drug safety services'

Bangalore: India-based Tata Consultancy Services has been designated as a Leader in Life Science Drug Safety Services (...

March 1, 2013 | Friday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: Oncology is the top therapeutic focus area for CROs in APAC

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Aurobindo Pharma gets FDA approval for diabetes drug

Bangalore: India-based Aurobindo Pharma has received tentative approval from the US Food & Drug Administration for p...

September 28, 2012 | Friday | News
Medical devices smarten up

The medical devices industry has progressed by leaps and bounds in the recent past and this is evident from the several ...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
NCBS prof wins Infosys prize in life science

Bangalore: India-based Infosys Science Foundation has chosen Dr Satyajit Mayor, professor, cellular organization and sig...

November 23, 2012 | Friday | News
Aethlon Medical expands access to Hemopurifier therapy

New Delhi: Aethlon Medical, a pioneer in developing selective therapeutic filtration devices to address infectious disea...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | News
10 point guide to BIRAC funding for businesses in India

With the manate to support and tend start-ups in the biotechnology sector and small and medium enterprises, the Biotech...

August 1, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Elder pharma announces future plans

Singapore: With an aim to focus on its anti-infectives market, Elder Pharma has announced that it plans to strengthen in...

December 26, 2013 | Thursday | News
India revokes Roche's cancer drug Herceptin patent

New Delhi: In what is being criticized as yet another miserable experience created by India's intellectual property and ...

August 5, 2013 | Monday | News
US FDA clears GVK Bio's Ahmedabad facility

Hyderabad: The Ahmedabad Clinical Pharmacology Unit of GVK Biosciences, Asia's leading contract research organization, h...

July 31, 2012 | Tuesday | News
BIORx to hold India's first bio-acceleration program

New Delhi: BIORx Venture Advisors (BIORx) is going to launch India's first dedicated bio-acceleration program with the t...

August 27, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BioEnable to prevent baby mix-ups in hospitals

Mumbai: BioEnable Technologies, a leading identification and tracking solutions company based in the city of Pune, India...

January 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Indian apex court raps govt over clinical trial data

Giving a clear call for accountability, the Supreme Court of India, on January 3, 2013, sternly reprimanded the Ministry...

January 10, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Neuland revenue drops 2.5% to $19.56 mn

Hyderabad: Neuland Laboratories, a pharmaceutical manufacturer providing active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), comp...

February 14, 2013 | Thursday | Company results
NIH cancels 40 ongoing clinical trials in India

Singapore: In what is proving to be a major setback for the Indian clinical research industry, reports reveal that the w...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Dr Rajput: Enjoy challenges to overcome them

Dr Anuradha Rajput, managing director, Icon Central Laboratories, India, has been working with the company since the pas...

January 18, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
DCGI asks Wockhardt, Ranbaxy to explain lapses

Singapore: The Indian Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has written a letter to the drug maker Wockhardt to explai...

September 2, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
A deal undone: Biocon, Pfizer go back on alliance

It was a path-breaking deal that had many eye balls rolling. Industry soothsayers predicted it to be the beginning of an...

April 30, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Dr Anu Singh: Pick biotech only if you are inspired by it

As Albert Einstein put it, "The world as we have created is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without chan...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
Women in life sciences – A peep into the lives of inspirational figures

We come across several women in the field of biotechnology at the graduation and post-graduation level of education. How...

March 1, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Dr. Reddy's launches generic psychiatric drug

Singapore: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has launched drug for psychiatric conditions, Divalproex Sodium extended release tab...

August 23, 2013 | Friday | News
Strides gets tentative FDA nod for HIV generic

Singapore: FDA has granted tentative approval to India-based Strides Arcolab's HIV drug emtricitabine and tenofovir diso...

August 2, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Ranbaxy launches generic of Pioglitazone in US

Bangalore: Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories, has launched authorized generic ...

August 20, 2012 | Monday | News
Genotypic, NIPGR launch chickpea microarray

Bangalore: Pioneers in genomics and bioinformatics in India, Genotypic Technology in association with the National Inst...

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: India, China lead in APAC CRO sector

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Abbott rejigs strategy, realigns India business

Singapore: After acquiring the formulations business of India's Piramal Healthcare in 2010, US drug major Abbott Laborat...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | News
Indian diagnostic market grows at 20%

The diagnostics market in India is witnessing a 20 percent growth which is the faster than any country in the world (the...

August 7, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Insulin leads Indian therapeutic market at $250 mn

The Indian local therapeutics market comprising of all biologics and vaccines for March 2012 has been estimated to be wo...

August 7, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Ranbaxy controversy: What have been the highlights?

On May 13, 2013, Indian drug major Ranbaxy pleaded guilty to charges related to drug safety. The company admitted to hav...

May 27, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
Indian firm succeeds in revoking Allergan patents

New Delhi: The Indian Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) revoked two composition patents of US-based Allergan ...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Inactivated polio vaccines broadly available for the World's children

Singapore: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, announced its further commitment to the international commun...

March 5, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Multisorb to exhibit drug packaging systems in India

Singapore: US-based Multisorb Technologies will introduce its Calculations through Operations Program, StripPax System, ...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Aurobindo Pharma acquires Indian Hyacinths Pharma

Singapore: India's Andhra Pradesh based Hyacinths Pharma that manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) is b...

September 13, 2013 | Friday | News
Mylan chosen as lead ARV supplier by India's AIDS control organization

Singapore: Mylan announced that its India-based subsidiary Mylan Laboratories has been selected as a leading supplier o...

September 5, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Indian agriculture minister calls for quality seeds

New Delhi: The Indian seeds industry needs the right push as poor monsoons this year have once again highlighted the nee...

August 21, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Japan firms keen to collaborate with Indian pharma

Singapore: Japanese companies are keen to collaborate with pharmaceutical companies in India. A delegation of pharmaceut...

February 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
11 nations pledge to eliminate measles by 2020

Singapore: At the World Health Organization's regional committee meeting for the South East Asian region, India along wi...

September 17, 2013 | Tuesday | News
India is on the verge of a major stem cell breakthrough

Started with an initial investment of Rs4.5 crore two years ago, Regenerative Medical Services (RMS Regrow Regrow) is a ...

October 22, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
Challenge No 9: Price cuts by govt

Continuous drug price cuts will further squeeze margins for both multinational and domestic pharma. "The National Reform...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Lilly aiming for top position in India by 2020

Singapore: US drug major Eli Lilly and Co has announced that it is looking at introducing more products in India to beco...

January 24, 2014 | Friday | News
Genesis Genetics is GVK Bio distributor in Taiwan

Hyderabad: GVK Biosciences has selected Genesis Genetics Asia (GGA) as its distributor for its informatics database pro...

February 27, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Jubilant, Janssen expand drug discovery alliance

Singapore: Jubilant Biosys, a subsidiary of Bangalore-based Jubilant Life Sciences, has expanded its drug discovery alli...

February 21, 2014 | Friday | News
The crop that changed farmers' lives

The introduction of Bt cotton in India brought in a humungous change in the country's cotton cultivation pattern. The nu...

May 21, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Ban on Sun pharma-Ranbaxy merger lifted

 Singapore:The Andhra Pradesh high court in India has lifted the merger ban on the two Indian pharmaceutical giants, Su...

May 26, 2014 | Monday | News
Lupin Pharma CEO bags E&Y Family Business Award

Bangalore: Ms Vinita Gupta, CEO, Lupin Pharmaceuticals, was named the inaugural Ernst & Young US 2012 Family Busine...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
India records lowest sales of drugs in 8 months

Singapore: As per latest data released by pharma market researcher, IMS Health, India witnessed a decline in the sale of...

September 24, 2013 | Tuesday | News
FABA: We improve the global biotech place

Federation of Asian Biotech Associations (FABA) is a professional non-profit and non-governmental society registered und...

April 30, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
Inogent Lab gets Japan regulatory body approval

Hyderabad: Inogent Laboratories, a GVK BIO associate company, has received approval from the the Japanese regulator for ...

August 21, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Apollo India sets up auto-microbe detection system

Singapore: Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, installed a first-of-its-kind cutting edge technology, bioMerieux's...

December 17, 2012 | Monday | News
Natco wins patent dispute case against Teva

Singapore: Based in India's Hyderabad, drug manufacturing major Natco Pharmaceuticals has won a long standing patent dis...

March 4, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Healthcare spending by BRICS nations to increase'

Singapore: The PwC report in Indian context mentions that India's infrastructure requirement is also significant and as ...

April 2, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Natco to continue selling Bayer's Nexavar

Hyderabad: The Indian Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) upheld a decision to allow Natco Pharma to sell a ge...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Lupin aims high with a strong R&D focus

Lupin Pharmaceutical, which aims to be the best transnational pharmaceutical company in the world, stroked 10.64 percent...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Jubilant Pharma will open API subsidiary in Singapore

Singapore: The pharmaceutical unit of the Jubilant Bhartia Group will soon be listed on an overseas stock exchange, maki...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Fortis showcases path breaking MRI technologies

New Delhi: Senior radiologists from around the world deliberated the latest advances in magnetic resonance (MR) techniqu...

February 26, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Polyclone, JSS University joins hands for research in India

Bangalore: Polyclone Bioservices signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with JSS University, Mysore, for collaborat...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
Ranbaxy to market infliximab biosimilar

Singapore: Switzerland based EPIRUS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boston-based EPIRUS Biopharmaceuticals, and Ranbaxy La...

January 9, 2014 | Thursday | News
Will biotech get its due in West Bengal?

The promise of change swept over West Bengal, a state in the eastern part of India with its capital in Kolkata, in 2011 ...

July 25, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
US FDA issues API bulk & tapped density guidance

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued guidance to the Active Pharmaceutical ingredient industr...

July 11, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
SeerPharma explores markets in India, China

Australia-based SeerPharma, which offers international quality management and compliance experience, and advice to suppo...

May 24, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Edinburgh univ, NCBS, inStem setup brain center

Bangalore: Scientists from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medi...

February 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Healthcare leverages on doc management systems

Anyone who conducts clinical trials knows that paper clinical documents and electronic processes consume staffing expe...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
US investors attracted to $74 bn Indian market

New Delhi: Opening a new chapter in the ever-continuing Indo-US cooperative programmes, the Association of Biotechnology...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
Lupin gets FDA nod for generic of Sanofi's BP drug

Mumbai: Lupin's subsidiary, Lupin Pharmaceuticals, received final approval from the US Food and Drugs Administration (FD...

October 19, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
10 challenges for businesses in APAC

The Asia Pacific healthcare market is estimated to capture 34.6 percent of the global healthcare market by 2015. Frost &...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Avesthagen to earn $30 mn in 10 years from AvestaDHA

New Delhi: Avesthagen entered into a license agreement with a leading specialty chemicals company for its 100 percent ve...

August 27, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Sun Pharma revenue touches $480 million in Q2 2012

Mumbai: Sun Pharmaceutical Industries reported a growth of 62 percent in its net sales for the quarter ending June 30, 2...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | Company results
India clears 12 FDI proposals worth $58 mn

New Delhi: The Indian government has cleared 12 foreign direct investment (FDI) proposals worth $58.13 million. However...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Kemwell gets FDA nod after cGMP audit

Bangalore: Kemwell Biopharma's oral solids manufacturing facility located in Bangalore, India, has successfully complete...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Netherlands' IMCD acquires India's Indchem

Singapore: Netherlands-based IMCD has acquired India's Indchem International. The business of Mumbai-based Indchem has a...

February 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Caraco closes tender offer to acquire DUSA

Mumbai: Caraco Pharma subsidiary, Caraco Acquisition, highlighted that its tender offer to acquire all of the outstandin...

December 21, 2012 | Friday | News
BioSpectrum Asia honors Asia's best in bioscience

Singapore: The fifth BioSpectrum Asia Pacific Awards 2013 were given away at a glittering ceremony at Hotel Fort Canning...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
What is the revenue size, range of CROs in APAC?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
FIPB clears seven pharma proposals, defers three

Singapore: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has cleared seven out of the ten investment proposals in the ph...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
Generics market to touch $231 bn by 2017: Report

Singapore: The global generic pharmaceuticals market is likely to witness strong growth in the next few years owing to t...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
India, China to appeal against EU regulation on API

Bangalore: Following a change in rules for importing active substances into the European Union for medicinal products fo...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | News
Xenetic recruits patients for anemia drug trial in India

Singapore: UK-based biopharma company, Xenetic Biosciences, said in a statement that the recruitment process for the tri...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
India's regulatory framework needs lot more work

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

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
India's Jubilant receives FDA warning for US plant

Singapore: Jubilant Life Sciences has joined the list of leading Indian drug makers who have received a warning from the...

December 6, 2013 | Friday | News
Thumbs down to report recommending GM trial ban

Bangalore: Eminent biotechnologists, agricultural scientists and heads of agribiotech industry came together on Saturday...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News
Start-ups redefining the industry

Life sciences industry in the Asia Pacific recorded the double digit growth of 16.6 percent, reaching $128.26 billion in...

May 30, 2012 | Wednesday | News
India-made prostate cancer drug files for IND with FDA

Bangalore: A new drug to treat prostate cancer, which was developed by Bangalore-based Jubilant Biosys and US-based coll...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Delhi High Court dismisses injunction by Life Tech Corp

New Delhi: The High Court of Delhi vide its order on an application seeking injunction filed by Life Technologies Corpor...

February 17, 2014 | Monday | News
BioAsia 2013 day 1 sees footfall of 500 delegates

Hyderabad: BioAsia, which is one-of-the-biggest technology and bio-business platform for life science organizations in A...

January 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News

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