BioSpectrum honours INDUSTRY STALWARTS

It is time to celebrate the outstanding contribution and achievements of the Indian Bio Sciences industry leaders and organisations over the past one year.

- Prabhat Prakash

BioSpectrum India, India’s leading life sciences publication, felicitated them at a virtual ceremony held on March 12, 2021 with participation of over 200 industry leaders from across India. The virtual award ceremony commenced with a panel discussion moderated by Dr Manbeena Chawla, Executive Editor, BioSpectrum India on the topic “Will sharing COVID-19 vaccine efforts reap more rewards?”

Welcoming the jury members, award winners, participants and sponsors, Ravi Boratkar, Managing Editor and Publisher, BioSpectrum India, MM Activ Sci-Tech Communications, New Delhi said “BioSpectrum awards as we know were constituted in 2003. Unfortunately, the awards ceremony was discontinued in between. However, we used to receive queries and calls. Finally, in 2019 we decided to keep up this good work and acknowledging, appreciating, and awarding the exemplary work of individuals and companies in the respective fields with these awards. We were encouraged and pleased when we approached Dr Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, to chair the jury. She graciously accepted to be the chairperson of the jury. The entire work related to this awards was done a year before. The actual BioSpectrum Awards Ceremony was organised at The LaLiT Ashok Bangalore, on March 27, 2020. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we were forced to cancel the ceremony. We hoped to do it at a later date. However now we realised that it will be a time for next year’s award. So we decided to go virtually. One more reason to go virtually for us is that as we learn from this pandemic and in BioSpectrum India also we have seen/observed that our reach through our portal, digital magazine edition has enhanced many folds. Hence we thought let's come to gather and do this program virtually.”