India News
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Conference to focus on biosimilars landscape
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 17 Jan, 2013
Bangalore: During the past several years, biosimilars has been drawing the market's attention due to the upcoming patent cliff. There is an increasing interest in the development of follow...Read more
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Roche gives up its patent battle in India
India | Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 19 Aug, 2013
Singapore: Roche will not pursue patent application for its breast cancer drug Herceptin in India. However, Roche said that it would continue to enforce other patents covering its drugs in ...Read more
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Suspected epidemic kills 42 children in Bihar, India
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2013
Singapore: A mysterious epidemic is daunting the state of Bihar claiming the lives of 42 children, so far. The disease, suspected to be an outbreak of encephalitis is spreading fast in the ...Read more
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JCDC receives human research protection accreditation in India
India | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 17 Sep, 2012
Bangalore: The Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, announced that it has accredited a third organization in India, Jehangir Clinical Development Cent...Read more
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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
