Biosimilars guidelines: A step in the right direction for India

The announcement of the new biosimilars guidelines, "Guidelines on Similar Biologics: Regulatory Requirements for Market...

August 16, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Keep walking, stay fit- Indian health Minister

Singapore: India's Union Health Minister Mr Harsh Vardhan has urged the citizens of the country to prioritize health and...

November 11, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Apollo telemedicine facility launched in Yangon

New Delhi: The Apollo Group of Hospitals, one of Asia's largest healthcare providerm, launched its telemedicine service...

December 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Cosmetics testing kills 3.9 million animals

        As cosmetics grow more sophisticated and the line between cosmetic products and drugs continues to blu...

August 24, 2012 | Friday | Opinion
Asia Pacific pharma meet at Hyderabad in September

Bangalore: Hyderabad will host an Asia Pacific International Pharma Business Meet between September 26 and 28, 2012. The...

August 17, 2012 | Friday | News
Mylan gets India's nod for $1.6 bn Agila takeover

New Delhi: India has cleared US-based Mylan's $1.6 billion takeover plan of India-based Agila Specialties even as the co...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
International consortium sequences tomato genome

Singapore: The Tomato Genome Consortium (TGC), which is a group of over 300 scientists from 13 countries sequenced the g...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | News
Indian court: HP govt should regulate drug prices

New Delhi: India's Himachal Pradesh High Court has asked the state government to establish a committee of experts in ord...

January 2, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Wockhardt chairman: Painkiller ban may cost us $100 mn

Singapore: The several bans on Proxyvon, a brand under India-based Wockhardt sold formulation of the painkiller dextropr...

June 17, 2013 | Monday | News
Cadila to start manufacturing facility in Russia

Singapore: Indian pharmaceutical major, Cadila Pharmaceutical is getting closer to constructing a modern manufacturing f...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Indian nutraceuticals market to double in next 5 years

Singapore: A latest research report filed by Ikon Marketing Consultants revealed that the Indian domestic nutraceutical ...

August 20, 2013 | Tuesday | News
India firm gets US nod to market image-guided oncology device

Singapore: India based Perfint Healthcare, solution provider for image guided interventional procedures in oncology and ...

May 27, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Medical laser market to reach $8.8 bn by 2018: GIA

Singapore: Technological advancements in laser technology have created a plethora of applications in the medical field, ...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | News
Jubilant's Spironolactone receives ANDA approval

Singapore: Jubilant Life Sciences, an integrated Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences Company announced that it has receive...

April 28, 2014 | Monday | News
US FDA approves acne medication Absorica

New Delhi: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Absorica, a novel, patented brand formulation of the a...

May 28, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Novo's insulin injection Tresiba to be launched in India

Singapore: Novo Nordisk is all set to launch a new basal insulin for adult patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, Tre...

September 3, 2013 | Tuesday | News
India's budget boost for biotech research

India: With a thrust on technology development through public private partnerships, the union budget 2014 offers big enc...

July 11, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
UCB sues 15 firms for patent infringement

Singapore: In a move that is threatening to become a high profile patent infringement suit, global biopharma company UCB...

July 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Challenge No 3: Policy issues

Government policies are among the major challenges before companies operating in the life sciences sector in the Asia Pa...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Phase III trial of $1 vaccine RotaVac completed

Pune: The phase III trial of RotaVac, India's first indigenously developed rotavirus vaccine, has been completed and the...

March 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Diabetes drug Actos banned in India

Singapore: The Indian Health Ministry has banned the blockbuster diabetes drug Actos along with suspending sales of pain...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
BIO India to take up vaccine development

Mumbai: Recognizing India as a model for the global vaccine market, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has pl...

August 15, 2012 | Wednesday | News
We are going to reduce Injectible Polio Vaccine cost, says Dr Cyrus Poonawalla

Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SIIL), one of the largest providers of affordable quality vaccines in the world, ha...

July 15, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
Interphex Japan: Japan pharma eyes China, India

Tokyo: The 7th in-Pharma Japan and 26th Interphex Japan, which are being concurrently held at Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, k...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Ranbaxy records 55% sales growth in Q2 2012

New Delhi: Ranbaxy Laboratories has reported a 55 percent growth in sales revenue in the second quarter of 2012 over the...

August 13, 2012 | Monday | Company results
Cipla's mother-baby pack wins BioSpectrum award

Towards the end of November 2010, Cipla, a Mumbai-based pharmaceutical major, took a step ahead in revolutionizing HIV/A...

March 15, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Intrexon appoints new VP and CIO

Singapore: US-based Intrexon, a synthetic biology company, has appointed Dr Peter Seufer-Wasserthal as VP, business deve...

November 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
'Personalized Shipment Service' for cord blood in India

Bangalore: LifeCell International, India's largest and most accredited stem cell storage company announced its partnersh...

September 21, 2012 | Friday | News
Harvard, MIT clinical research course now in India

Mumbai: A new introductory course on clinical research has been introduced at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)...

August 17, 2012 | Friday | News
MSD sues Glenmark for diabetes drug patent

New Delhi: The legal battles between pharma MNCs and local drug companies doesn't seem to cease in India. Following the ...

April 3, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Pharma discusses FDA suggestion on Quality by Design

Mumbai: At the recently held, DIA IT Life Sciences Summit 2012, a host of current topics were discussed at length among ...

October 1, 2012 | Monday | News
Daiichi may take legal action against ex-Ranbaxy promoters

Singapore: Breaking its silence for the first time in 10 days after Indian drug major Ranbaxy's $500 million settlement ...

May 24, 2013 | Friday | News
Dr Samir Brahmachari: India's regulatory infrastructure needs revamp

India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) celebrated 70 years of existence this year. An organization...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Dr Yusuf K Hamied: India's generics king

Dr Yusuf K Hamied, CMD of India's largest pharma company, Cipla, has earned many unflattering epithets for building a co...

March 15, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Mr Tarun Pandotra, PRA India: Drug discovery outsourcing will gain momentum in 2013

The drug discovery outsourcing market will experience high revenue growth from 2013-to-2023. Expansion of the market wil...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
India needs awareness on IP, say experts

Bangalore: "India stands one among the top 10 league of countries in the Global Innovation Efficiency Index which shows ...

July 17, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Actis contemplating sale of Sterling Hospitals

Singapore: India based Private equity (PE) major Actis Capital is said to be considering a sale of Ahmedabad-based Sterl...

December 6, 2013 | Friday | News
Biosimilars suspension leads to monopoly in Sri Lanka

With the suspension of the registration of 36 similar bio-therapeutic products in Sri Lanka, the country's healthcare ma...

July 24, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
India's 127-year-old ayurvedic leader clocks $847 mn

Growing on its legacy of 127 years, Dabur India clocked $847 million in 2012. The company is recognized for manufactur...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Dr R A Mashelkar: India is capital-starved

A highly respected name in the Indian bioscience industry, Dr Raghunath Anant Mashelkar has been known for his critical ...

November 22, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Temasek to divest in Medreich Pharma

Bangalore: Temasek, a Singapore-based investment company with 11 affiliates and offices in Asia and Latin America, is lo...

December 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Joint implant market to be $4.5 bn in BIC nations

Singapore: The Millennium Research Group (MRG) has estimated that Brazilian, Indian and Chinese markets for spinal impla...

January 28, 2013 | Monday | News
Cochlear implantation, a boon for the deaf

Singapore: Held at Mumbai-based Jaslok hospital, Dr Sandra Desa Souza convened organized an international symposium on C...

August 28, 2014 | Thursday | News
India's SRM University to form diabetes drug firm

Bangalore SRM University, which is located in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, will establish a pharmaceutical company n...

February 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Ranbaxy CEO wins leadership award, firm enters elite list

Singapore: Ranbaxy received a rare distinction at the fourth Indian Affairs Business Leadership Awards 2013. The compan...

July 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Indian pharma growth plunged lowest-ever in Aug

Singapore: Latest data released by the research firm AIOCD, revealed that the Indian domestic pharma retail market exper...

September 16, 2013 | Monday | News
What were Asia's Top 20 bio companies in 2012?

During the year 2012, the bioscience industry in the Asia Pacific region clocked $154.40 billion in revenues, recording ...

June 19, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
India to realign regulatory with pharma industry

India's top drug regulatory body, the Central Drug Standard Control Organization (CDSO) is literally facing the heat, th...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
Eli Lilly insulin delivery device Savvio to hit India in Aug

Singapore: US pharmaceutical major, Eli Lilly and Company, said that they expect to be among the top 20 drug makers in ...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
What were the top 20 global M&A transactions of 2012?

A majority of life science firms are standing on the edge of the patent cliff and their drug pipelines are experiencing ...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Lupin CEO gets E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 Award

Singapore: Ernst & Young LLP have awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 Award in the Health Services and Technol...

July 9, 2012 | Monday | News
Samsung forays into medtech market in India

Samsung India strengthened its presence in the health and medical equipment business in the country by launching digital...

June 11, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Shasun, Debiopharm to manufacture brain drug

Singapore: Shasun Pharmaceuticals and Debiopharm Group entered into a licensing agreement for the manufacturing and comm...

April 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
Cardiac Science launches small, wearable heart monitor

Bangalore: Cardiac Science Corporation, which is a subsidiary of Opto Circuits and is a global leader in external defibr...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
Waters India president: The CRO market is slowing down

Waters India, which celebrated its silver jubilee in 2012, is a key player in the separations segment in the India marke...

April 22, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
Positive result for PaxVax's oral cholera vaccine

Singapore: US-based PaxVax, a specialty vaccine company, has confirmed positive efficacy results from 90-day challenge s...

July 8, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Sun Pharma net sales rise 32%, will issue 1:1 bonus

Mumbai: Sun Pharmaceutical Industries reported financials for the fourth quarter and year ending March 31st, 2013. The f...

May 29, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
Telemedicine is revolutionizing healthcare access

Telemedicine is re-defining access to healthcare in many ways. It has, in particular, proved to be an effective solution...

November 30, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
NCBS, Institut Curie, CNRS to collaborate on research

Bangalore: The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), the ...

August 9, 2012 | Thursday | News
Sun Pharma generic testosterone injection gets FDA nod

Mumbai: Sun Pharmaceutical Industries received final approval from the US FDA for its abbreviated new drug application (...

June 6, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
R&D dominates Indo-Aus collaborations

There has been a significant increase in industry-to-academia and industry-to-industry interactions between Indian and A...

May 18, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Catalent Biologics, Zumutor to co-develop antibodies with enhanced ADCC activity

Singapore: Catalent Pharma Solutions, and Zumutor Biologics Inc., has announced a successful research study, combining ...

August 12, 2016 | Friday | News
Evolva, Ajinomoto enter development deal

Singapore: Evolva Holding SA entered into a collaboration agreement with Ajinomoto, Japan, for the joint development of ...

January 24, 2013 | Thursday | News
New life sciences job portal in India

Mumbai: MITCON Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Center, which is working for commercialization of biotechnology by bridg...

December 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Cadila, Swedish firm develop arthritis drug

Singapore: NovaSAID, part of Sweden-based Karolinska Development, and India- based Cadila Pharmaceuticals have entered i...

January 13, 2014 | Monday | News
Indian price control order dont cover many life saving drugs

Singapore: The Indian drug price control order (DPCO) 2013 that has been established in order to control the prices of m...

December 2, 2013 | Monday | News
Eisai to launch breast cancer drug in India

Singapore: With an agenda to expand its footprint in the emerging markets, Japan's Eisai Pharma is launching its novel a...

November 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Spherix, Fullife sign deal for pro-biotic fructose isomer

Mumbai: Spherix and Fullife Healthcare have signed a supply and license agreement for the use of D-tagatose in nutrace...

November 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
Ranbaxy uses hybrid model to expand global footprint

Ranbaxy, like many other Indian firms is leveraging on big pharma's change in strategy from 'profit alone' model to 'pro...

April 8, 2013 | Monday | News
BMS commits to fight diabetes in China, India

Together on Diabetes, a Bristol-Myers Squibb initiative, is the largest corporate philanthropic commitment to fight type...

June 13, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Consumers are winners in the BRCA gene case

In the wake of US Supreme Court's win-win verdict in Association for Molecular Pathology vs Myriad Genetics case, Frost ...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Apex court: Stop using Indians as guinea pigs

Bangalore: The government seems to be taking serious and strict actions against unauthorized clinical trials. After ove...

January 8, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Cardiac Science sells its diagnostics unit to Mortara

Bangalore: Cardiac Science, an Opto Circuits group company, announced a definitive agreement signed on March 29, 2013, ...

April 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Aurangabad to host AgTech Global Summit

Mumbai: Bejo Sheetal Bio-Science Foundation, India, and Maryland India Business Round Table in collaboration with Michi...

November 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
Sun terminates agreement with Taro

Singapore: Sun Pharmaceutical and Taro Pharmaceutical have mutually agreed to terminate their merger agreement, announc...

February 11, 2013 | Monday | News
China to reduce prices of drugs by up to 20%

Singapore: After India, now China has decided to cut prices of about 400 drugs for respiratory diseases, fever and pain...

January 9, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Hester Biosciences grows by 15 percent

Mumbai: Hester Biosciences, an Indian animal biotechnology company based in Ahmadabad, Gujarat, reported a turnover of $...

August 17, 2012 | Friday | Company results
Serum Institute of India builds cGMP facility

Bangalore: Pfenex's reagent proteins division announced that its CRM197 manufacturing partner, Serum Institute of India...

January 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Drug association to hold PAC in Mumbai

Mumbai: The Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association (IDMA) and Association of Pharmaceutical Analysts (APA) will be holdi...

August 29, 2012 | Wednesday | News
PHARMEXCIL kick starts India-APAC pharma meet

Hyderabad: Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council (PHARMEXCIL), the organization responsible for boosting internationa...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
CSIR is fueling Indian life science since 70 years

The Bangalore declaration of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) director's meeting, held during the ye...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Abexome collaborates with Bioneeds

Bangalore: Abexome Biosciences, an analytical solution provider to the biopharmaceutical industry and Bioneeds, a leadin...

March 28, 2013 | Thursday | News
Gulf nations woo Indian generic firms

Singapore: A new report by investment bank Alpen Capital titled, 'The GCC pharmaceutical Outlook', a number of Gulf Coop...

April 4, 2013 | Thursday | News
Biological E cuts vaccine cost by 30% for GAVI

Bangalore: The GAVI Alliance signed a supply agreement with Biological E, India, according to which it will receive the ...

April 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Garth Tierney is executive VP of INC CRO

Singapore: INC Research has promoted Mr Garth Tierney to executive vice president, Asia Pacific. He will be responsible...

March 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Ashwin Raguraman: Investors are keen to fund Indian firms

India Innovation Fund (IIF) is a Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) registered venture capital fund that inve...

October 31, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Fondaparinux earns $2 mn profit for Alchemia

Singapore: Alchemia provided an update on its marketed generic anti-coagulant product, fondaparinux, which was launched...

November 23, 2012 | Friday | News
USFDA lifts import alert from Dr. Reddy's facility at Mexico

Mumbai: The US FDA's import alert at Quimicas Falcon de Mexico SA de C.V. (chemical manufacturing facility at Cuernavaca...

July 30, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Dr Kiran Mazumdar first Indian to receive 'Othmer Gold Medal 2014'

Singapore: Dr Kiran is the third woman to receive the Othmer Gold Medal, and the first Indian to make it to this prestig...

May 16, 2014 | Friday | News
Ranbaxy launches Absorica in the US

New Delhi: Indian pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy Laboratories is launching Absorica (Isotretinoin) capsules, a product ...

November 26, 2012 | Monday | News
Spinchrom to market Pall ForteBio's BLItz system

Singapore: Pall India entered into an exclusive India distribution agreement with a leading biosupplier, Spinchrom Life ...

April 22, 2013 | Monday | News
FDI in Indian pharma up by 86.5 percent

Singapore: Foreign Direct Investment in drugs and pharmaceuticals industry in India was at $580 million during April-Oct...

January 6, 2014 | Monday | News
EU concludes inspection of Ranbaxy's Toansa unit

Singapore: Ranbaxy's manufacturing unit in Toansa that had come under close regulatory scrutiny recently can now breathe...

June 6, 2014 | Friday | Regulatory
TATAA signs agreement with Polyclone

Bangalore: TATAA Biocenter, the world's largest provider of hands-on trainingin qPCR and Sweden's most comprehensive di...

December 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
India's Glenmark to set up unit in US

Singapore: Riddled with regulatory hurdles, many Indian pharmaceutical companies are increasingly setting up plants in t...

July 16, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Indian remedy for Caribbean cholera outbreak

Singapore: The annual cases of cholera in the Caribbean Islands was reduced by 75 percent in the first quarter of 2014, ...

June 25, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi's comments upset former Ranbaxy owners

Singapore: Japanese drugmaker Daiichi Sankyo, which currently holds a majority stake in Ranbaxy, had earlier highlighted...

May 24, 2013 | Friday | News
Dr Kumar: Nobody in my family passed 10th grade

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held very high." This famous quote of Nobel winning poet Rabindranath Ta...

January 22, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
Cipla reduces 50% prices of anti cancer drugs

Mumbai: Continuing with its principle of providing affordable drugs to India and countries across the globe, and its agg...

November 9, 2012 | Friday | News
Mylan to produce generic of Gilead's HIV drug

Singapore: Mylan signed a new agreement between its subsidiary Mylan Laboratories and Gilead Sciences. According top thi...

August 3, 2012 | Friday | News

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