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The Inside Story Of Jan Aushadhi Kendras

The centre’s PMBJP is an ambitious scheme which certainly provides generics at affordable rates but more efforts are required to make it really successful

Unequal HIV Prevention Pill Use Puts Minority Men At Higher Risk

The study also suggests that doctors can do more to help close this gap of HIV prevention pill intake between white and coloured men

Will Technology Take Over Manpower?

Globally, the pharmaceutical industry is undergoing tremendous pressure to develop new research molecules for complex diseases. With rising healthcare demands and changing regulatory requirements, more is being expected from the industry to provide real-time monitoring of manufacturing processes. Parallelly, new tech trends are flooding the market and attracting companies by providing minimum error solutions. Due to complexities in R&D and risks involved in regulatory compliance, the pharma industry is willing to invest in building up tech-enabled solutions against enhancing their manpower capabilities. Experts analyse the changing conservative nature and highlights the opportunities.

More Efficient Drug Delivery Within The Brain By Utilising Lat1

By utilising the new LAT1-prodrug approach, it is possible to achieve drug concentrations relevant for the pharmacological effects in the diseased brain, which has been one of the major challenges to overcome in the CNS-drug development

Lilly's Targeted Ret Drug Shrinks Tumours In Lung Cancer Trial

Lilly’s drug, now called selpercatinib, is intended for patients with rare RET abnormalities, which occur in about 2 per cent of non-small cell lung cancers

Extractables And Leachables Testing: Choose The Right Partner Laboratory

Joseph St Laurent, President, CSO,Chemic Laboratories, talks about the need to engage with a strategic partner laboratory to assist in execution and reporting of E/L results

Bringing Glory Back To GOA

As competition becomes fiercer and unprecedented challenges emerge, Goa needs a renaissance with a revamped game plan, strategic investments and better synergy between industry stakeholders to retain Its position as a major pharma hub

Dock Shelters Help To Increase Efficiency And Safety Of Loading Bay

Dock Shelters are incredibly effective products that form a vital part of any loading bay.

Berkeley Lights Opens Office In Shanghai

The office was established to provide regional marketing and pre-sales service to biotech, pharma and academic customers in China and throughout the APAC region

B&R Offers New Simulation Tool For Model-based Machine Development

B&R has integrated the industrialPhysics simulation tool into its Automation Studio engineering environment.

Polyphor Reinvents Itself After Abandoning Antibiotic Trial

Polyphor's prospects and its share price plunged this year when it halted a trial of its intravenous murepavadin antibiotic against pneumonia due to a risk it could damage kidneys

Stem Cells May Be Better Choice Than Tissue Transplantation For Treating LSCD: Study

The main treatment for this condition was a limbal tissue transplant using tissue from either the patient, a relative or a cadaver — a treatment that carried with it a high risk of rejection

PNB Vesper: Betting Big On Research

Kochi-based PNB Vesper’s semi-virtual web of researchers, universities, and CROs across continents has some promising leads in the pre-clinical pipeline. Promoter PN Balaram says this cost-effective research model is the way forward to achieve India’s drug research goals

Eminence Business Media To Organise 2nd Annual Pharma Manufacturing & Automation Convention 2019

The event aims to bridge the significant gap between the strategic vision and operational realities of India’s pharma sector

Angle L&D Conclave Organised In Mumbai

Over 50 top pharma companies from across India attended the conference

FEP Tubing And Its Rising Demand

Shrikant Dethe, Business Development, Ami Polymer, gives an insight about FEP and how it has become an ideal choice for sterile filling, diagnostic equipment, cell transfer and laboratory use

Bolstering Data Integrity

Pharma companies to fine-tune their security policies and implement best practices to safeguard data integrity.

Doctors Are Highly Motivated to Know About Clinical Insights From the Pharma Industry

DocPlexus, an online community for doctors, is building a bridge between pharma companies and doctors to improve clinical outcomes. Phanish Chandra, CEO, Docplexus, shares more details about the platform, role of technology in the lifesciences industry, differentiators offered by his platform for both the pharma and healthcare sectors and more, in an interaction with Lakshmipriya Nair

The Act That Wasn't

Dr Bobby George critiques both the lawmakers and law breakers in his book, The Act That Wasn't and manages to deliver on his promise of being 'an insider's view on healthcare laws, loopholes and reforms.'

Biocon Foundation's eLAJ Project Wins Award

Biocon Foundation’s eLAJ programme was selected as it is an ‘initiative that had the biggest health outcome bang for the buck and effort expended and serves as an inspiration to other organisations whose CSR work is in the area of health

Epygen Biotech To Produce Recombinant Streptokinase (Rsk) For The Cardiovascular Segment

Debayan Ghosh – President and Founder, Epygen Biotech shares insights on the current opportunities and challenges in the biosimilar industry and speaks about Epygen Biotech's offerings for the industry, in an interaction with Swati Rana

'The US FDA Approval Of Trastuzumab Is A Huge Milestone For Biocon'

First biosimilar Trastuzumab has been recently approved by the US FDA. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CMD, Biocon, reveals more an in an interaction with Express Pharma

B&R Presents New I/O Modules For Monitoring Control Cabinets

B&R Presents New I/O Modules For Monitoring Control Cabinets

Gandhi Automations Offers High Speed Doors

Gandhi Automations Offers High Speed Doors

Digitalisation Is Changing The Future Of Pharma

Pooja Patil, Corporate Communication, B&R Industrial Automation, talks about B&R’s versatile industrial transport systems, SuperTrak and ACOPOStrak for the pharma industry, which can achieve the increased market demand effectively and efficiently

Caramelisation Or Darkening In The Colourof Autoclaved Liquid Bi Ampoules

Russ Nyberg, Director of Manufacturing and Production, Mesa Labs, explains glucose and other sugars that may be present in the media slightly darken and the overall appearance of the media will look more of a dark honey or light brown colour.The shear presence of the additional purple pH indicator used in these ampoules make the colour look even darker than media would without the pH indicator.

Gandhi Automations' High Speed Doors Ideal For Medium And Large Entrances

GANDHI AUTOMATIONS, India’s No.1 entrance automation and loading bay equipment company offers high speed doors.

​IoT Software And Services In Pharma Sector To Be Worth $2.4 Billion By 2020

The Asia-Pacific region’s robust IoT software and services growth in the pharma sector is primarily driven by the large number of upcoming pharma manufacturing organisations

Packaging In Parenterals: Challenges And Opportunities

The PPL Conclave’s final panel discussion was on, ‘Packaging in Parenterals: Challenges and Opportunities’.

Express Pharma Hosts First Ever PPL Leadership Awards

It recognises excellence in pharma packaging and acknowledges the role of pharma packaging professionals in driving life sciences industry’s progress