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Radio-Opaque Silicon Tube

Pritam Adhikary, Executive-R&D,Ami Polymer, discusses how the type and amount of radioopaque filler compounded with silicone elastomer in the manufacturing of medical devices used in diagnostic radiology determines how they appear in X-ray scans

Dupont Releases Clinical Study Results Demonstrating Benefits Of High-Potency And Multi-Strain Probiotic Formulations

Nutrients journal publishes new study suggesting higher doses of a DuPont multispecies probiotic formulation may permit more benefits for healthy adults

Gandhi Automations PCR Clean Room Doors Provide Optimum Solution

THE PHARMACEUTICAL and chemical industries require suppliers to meet challenging standards in areas of hygiene, sealing, operating reliability, fitting and providing efficient after sales service.

Biogen Scraps Two Alzheimer Drug Trials, Wipes $18 Billion From Market Value

The two halted trials were in the final stages of testing aducanumab in patients with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s and mild Alzheimer’s disease dementia

B&R Unveils Futuristic Corporate Headquarters In Pune

The corporate headquarters of B&R Industrial Automation in Pune houses a demo room and a next generation customer experience centre, highlighting latest B&R hardware and technology

LTE Appoints India And South-East Asia Exports Manager

Kolkata-based Ashim Chakravarty, who has 20 years of professional experience in the life sciences industry, has been given the charge

Pharma CXO Summit 2019

Leaders and experts come together to transform India Pharma Inc into a more value-driven industry with the help of disruptive technologies

India's Pharma API Industry Discusses Green Chemistry Concepts

A TWO-DAY conference and EXPO on ‘Advancing Implementation of Green Chemistry and Engineering in the Indian Pharma Industry’ was recently organised by Green ChemisTree Foundation in collaboration with the ACS-Green Chemistry Institute’s Pharmaceutical Roundtable (GCIPR) in Hyderabad.

A Race To The Bottom On Price Must Not Mean Low Quality, High Volumes

Professor (Dr) Hilary Thomas, Partner and Chief Medical Officer - Healthcare and Life Sciences Advisory and Global Centre of Excellence, KPMG in the UK gives Viveka Roychowdhury a glimpse of some of the trends to watch out for in 2019

Building Human Capital - 2019

Sumit Kumar, Vice President, NETAP asserts that pharma sector cannot achieve the expected growth if it doesn’t invest in building talent

A Pill Is More Than Just A Pill

Is a pill, just a pill? Most definitely not. In the second of a series of six articles, Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) launches the Know Your Pill initiative, to educate patients on the untold story of the medicine and the intrinsic value of quality that make a pill much more than just a pill

New Research Points To Universal Antibody Drug For HIV

Scientists in Hong Kong say they aim to bring the antibody into clinical trials within a timeframe of three to five years

'ACG Is Well Geared Up To Constantly Meet Challenges By Offering Newer Products'

ACG Films & Foils, recently became a complete packaging solution provider for oral solid dosage formulation with the launch of state-of-the-art lamination facility at Shirwal near Pune. In an interaction with Swati Rana, SR Shivshankar, CEO, ACG Films & Foils spoke about the facility, challenges faced by the sector and company’s future plans

Japan's Toyo Aluminium Inks Jvwith Svam Packaging

To offer innovative solutions in healthcare packaging and anti-counterfeit solutions

Siemens Is Banking On Automation And Digitalisation To Tap Into Indian Pharma Space

Indian pharma sector is key to the growth strategy of Siemens. The company has been investing heavily in the development of smart, customer-focussed local innovations using automation and digital technologies. Eckard Eberle, CEO, Business Unit Process Automation, Siemens explains their strategy to Raelene Kambli

Gangwal Chemicals Organises ACE Technical Seminar In Ahmedabad

The seminar was attended by pharmaceutical professionals from formulation development, R&D, purchase and top management

Dr Bhupinder Singh Bhoop Gets Best Researcher Award

Acclaimed for his scientific work, Professor Bhoop has earned to his credit over 360 original publications, 15 books, five patents and tech-transfers of two nanostructured drug delivery technologies to pharma industry

Honesty Is Still The Best Policy!

Amit Rajan, Managing Director, Prosfora Technologies, says that instilling a culture of compliance in a pharma set up is about nurturing, training and development of all the staffs concerned, on a continuous basis. It’s also about nurturing and inculcating an important cultural attribute, the need for being honest

Building A Culture Of Compliance

Lingering cGMP issues underline the importance of hiring right, rigorous training and continuous oversight to consistently comply with safety norms

Special Doors For Clean Rooms

GANDHI AUTOMATIONS offers a wide range of rapid roll high speed doors suitable for use in food processing, healthcare, leisure, pharmaceutical and research environments.

Increasing Number Of Biologics Losing Patents Presents India With Great Opportunity

Shakthi M Nagappan, Director (Life Science and Pharma), Government of Telangana, speaks on the BIO Asia International Conference, its highlights this year, the state’s initiatives to further growth in the life sciences industry and more, in an interview with Lakshmipriya Nair

IDTwins Life Science Industry Awards

The awards, entirely nominated and voted for by scientists, validate IDT’s continued efforts to support scientists at every stage of their research journey

Optima Pharma To Present Smart Solutions

OPTIMA PHARMA will advise visitors to Interphex in New York on its MultiUse machines, which process different types of containers in a highly flexible and fully automated way.

Logistics: Choosing The Right Loading Bay

MANY FACILITY supervisors look at their warehouses not from the outside, but from the inside. Let’s face it, you get to work, go inside the warehouse and spend the rest of the day inside taking care of business.

Syngene Appoints Dr Mahesh Bhalgat As COO

Dr Bhalgat is recognised for his contribution to the commercialisation of diagnostic kits, biopharmaceuticals and WHO pre-qualification of vaccines

'We Are Currently Working With Almost All Major Pharma Companies In Asia Pacific'

Sylvia Hii, Founder & VP – Marketing, Digital A Plus Group of Companies in an interaction with Usha Sharma, elaborates on the immense opportunities provided by digital service providers within the pharma industry

Spore Is Focused On A Specific Organ Site, Such As Breast Or Lung Cancer

Dr George R Simon, Professor of Medicine and Section Chief, Translational Research, Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas talks about the SPORE programme for controlling lung cancer incidence and explains the role and impact of DNA repair pathways in therapeutic efficacy, in an interview with Viveka Roychowdhury.

Teva's Migraine Drug Clears Late-Stage Study

Patients treated with fremanezumab experienced a statistically significant reduction in the number of monthly headache days for both monthly.

Aptar Pharma's Electronic Lockout Device Approved By EMA

Takeda will launch Instanyl DoseGuard in Europe in several multidose strengths

NASH Market Will Increase More Than 40 Fold By 2026

Rising rate of obesity and diabetes globally and launches of multiple late-stage pipeline products will transform the market