India News
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India, Canada to begin key research partnerships
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 05 May, 2014
Singapore: The Indian Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and IC-IMPACTS Centres of Excellence, Canada, are the implementing organizations from the Indian and Canadian sides respectively. IC-...Read more
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Biotech crops helps countries boost income
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2013
Singapore: For the first time since the introduction of biotech/GM crops almost two decades ago, developing countries have grown more hectares of biotech crops than industrialized countrie...Read more
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Dutch company acquires Indian pharma distributor
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2013
Mumbai: IMCD Group acquired the business of Indchem International, an established player in the pharmaceutical ingredients market in India. The business of Mumbai-based Indchem has already...Read more
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ICRISAT appoints new director-general
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 06 Jul, 2014
Singapore: The governing board of the International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has announced the appointment of Mr David Bergvinson, as the next director gener...Read more
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RCC Labs gets exclusive marketing rights from ViruSure
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 01 Nov, 2012
Bangalore: RCC Laboratories, a Hyderabad based contract research organization (CRO) and ViruSure entered into a partnership to market the services of ViruSure in India. Through this partner...Read more
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Venus gets US patent for drug that fights superbugs
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 14 Jun, 2012
Bangalore: Venus Remedies, a research-based Indian global pharmaceutical company, has received a patent from the US Patent Office for a new drug product CSE1034, which is an antibiotic adju...Read more
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BP and Diabetes drugs available at $0.04 per day
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 14 Aug, 2012
Bangalore: Considering the rising prices of products and services in India, Ozone Pharmaceuticals, one of the leading prescription drug manufacturing and marketing company from India, intro...Read more
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Avanir Pharma settles patent litigation with Wockhardt
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 09 Sep, 2013
Singapore: US based Avanir Pharmaceuticals has entered into a settlement agreement with India's Wockhardt to resolve pending patent litigation in response to Wockhardt's abbreviated new dru...Read more
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Obesity an epidemic in developing countries'
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2013
Singapore: Out of 2.1 billion obese population in the world, 15 percent are the Indians and Chinese, reveals a study conducted by the Global Burden of Disease published in Lancet medical jo...Read more
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India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 17 Sep, 2014
Singapore: In a bid to expand its market position in the healthcare sector, Cognizant purchased Colorado-based TriZetto, a healthcare IT services provider for $2.7 billion. Speaking about ...Read more
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Smokefree's new range of electronic cigarettes
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 04 Jul, 2013
New Delhi: India-based electronic cigarette company Smokefree Electronic Cigarette has launched new EGO series range of first E-liquid based electronic cigarette kits. The newly introduced ...Read more
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A mini PCR for quick diagnosis
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 14 Jun, 2012
Innovation comes in all sizes. Bigtec's mini PCR, TrueLab, is the perfect example for that. TrueLab is a point-of-care, hand-held, real time quantitative mini PCR, that is battery operated....Read more
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India's Science & Technology minister passes away
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 14 Aug, 2012
Bangalore: Mr Vilasrao Deshmukh, the Science and Technology minister, Government of India, passed away at a hospital in Chennai this afternoon after a brief illness at the age of 67. He was...Read more
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CMOs look towards Asia to reduce cost by 50%
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 05 Nov, 2012
Singapore: Global contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) are set to steadily become more and more popular, as Western pharmaceutical companies outsource production to Asian countries i...Read more
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InnoPack Pharma to be held from June 27-28
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 15 Apr, 2013
Singapore: The second edition of InnoPack Pharma would be held from June 27-28, 2013, in Mumbai, India. The conference is expected to see participation from over 150 professionals belonging...Read more
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Industry-academia meet focuses on innovation in India
India | News | By Rahul Koul Koul | 0 Comment | 22 Oct, 2012
New Delhi: India's department of biotechnology (DBT) and biotechnology industry research assistance council (BIRAC) have for the first time ever held a meeting called 'Innovation for Afford...Read more
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Wockhardt to market generic of GSK Parkinson's drug
India | Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 29 Aug, 2012
Mumbai: Pharmaceutical and biotechnology major Wockhardt received US FDA approval for marketing 2mg, 4mg, 6mg, 8mg and 12mg extended-release tablets with generic version of GlaxoSmithKline'...Read more
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Pharma companies set eyes on China
India | Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 19 Jun, 2012
China reported total of 97 deals worth $6.5 billion, the highest in Asia Pacific, according to a mergermarket report. The country was followed by Australia with 40 deals and India and South...Read more
