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Sysdig closes $70m in Series E Funding

Investment will fuel the company’s leadership as the most advanced Kubernetes security tool to embed security, maximize availability, and validate compliance

CARCINOGENS UNDER THE SCAN

As trace amounts of cancer-causing contaminants continue to crop up in certain medicines, pharma companies are upgrading their testing methods and equipment to meet increased regulatory scrutiny. The result? Safer medicines but even thinner margins

Push Packs from Romaco Siebler – Sustainable packaging technology made in Germany

Andreas Detmers, Head of Technical Solutions, Romaco Pharmatechnik GmbH writes about how Romaco Siebler and Huhtamaki are adopting new approaches to primary packaging for pharmaceutical solids with innovative push-through strips

IIT Hyderabad researchers unravel working of a protein that repairs damaged DNA

Researchers are seeking to understand the workings of the DNA damage repair proteins. Certain types of chemicals produced naturally in the body can cause damages in DNA and, if not fixed fast, may trigger cell death

ABB and B&R launch first fully integrated Machine-Centric Robotics solution

Fully integrating ABB’s robots into its automation systems means that B&R will now be able to supply machine builders with machine automation and robotics from a single source

'To harness the full value of digital transformation there must be a structured methodology in place'

Cybage Software, a global technology consulting organisation is partnering with the life sciences organisation to spur a enterprise-wide digital transformation. Vivek Vig, Vice President – Healthcare and Life Sciences, Cybage Software outlines how IT and digital technologies will be crucial for progress in this sector and details how to harness the full value of these transformational technolgies and the role that Cybage can play in this tech-driven era, in an exclusive interaction with Lakshmipriya Nair

E-Pharmacies – What Lies Ahead?

Dr Vikram A Munshi, Founder,WhiteSpace, Consulting and Capability Building discusses how e-pharmacies are faring in current times, their growth potential, and what their future beholds

Lonza India plans to double its turnover by 2024

Lonza is a global integrated solutions provider for pharma, consumer healthcare, and nutrition segments. Deepak Sood, MD, Lonza India talks about the company's plans for the Indian market, its strategic focus areas, and more in an exclusive interview with Express Pharma

RARE DISEASES AWAITING RENEWED FOCUS

India needs to make significant investments in R&D, policy reforms, and measures to enable affordability and accessibility of medicines and healthcare to manage the burden posed by rare diseases

Atul Kumar Nasa awarded 'Schroff Memorial National Award, 2019'

The award was given by the Indian Hospital Pharmacists’Association in recognition of his contribution in strengthening the regulatory services

‘We may look at scaling to 50 per cent growth in the next financial year'

Manish Jain, Managing Director of Cilicant Chem, a company that provides solutions to protect highly moisture-sensitive products from the harmful effects of moisture or humidity for the desiccant market, discusses the company's growth strategy with Akanki Sharma

Ami Polymer signs master distribution agreement with Foxx Life Sciences

The Network allows full coverage of specialised Pharma Tubings (Platinum cured Silicone, TPE, FKM, and FEP tubings), O-rings, Manifolds, and Sanitary Gaskets for the markets such as Bio pharma, Medical and Lifesciences

Piramal Swasthya and The Rockefeller Foundation announce partnership to accelerate India's public health transformation

Collaboration will harness innovative digital technology to support the Government of India’s vision to provide quality healthcare for all

UNLOCKING POTENTIAL

Experts outline plans of action for capability expansion, reforms and market leadership to step up India Pharma Inc's growth trajectory

Nutraceuticals is the fastest-growing segment of the biopharmaceutical industry in India

As a biopharma company, we realise that the most critical aspect is to provide wellresearched and developed products, which are cost-effective and can be accessed by all, informs Gaurav Kaushik, Managing Director and CEO, Meteoric Biopharmaceuticals, to Akanki Sharma

7th Annual CubeX-Nicholas Hall Consumer Healthcare Conference 2019 held

The conference explored ways for marketers to connect with today’s tech-savvy consumers through speakers who were presented at the conference

71st Indian Pharmaceutical Congress held in Chennai

The three-day conference saw the participation of pharmaceutical experts, regulators, academicians and pharmacy students from across the country. Industry stakeholders were also able to showcase their innovations at an exhibition that was organised alongside the conference By Akanki Sharma

Patient-Centric Innovation – Catering To Future Needs

Manoj Saxena, Managing Director, Bayer Zydus Pharma, talks about how technology has become an essential tool that complements the personal and physical interaction with a healthcare professional to help patients lead a healthier life

Routine Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates Remain High In Children, But Subpar In Elderly: Globaldata Report

The company’s latest report,‘Pneumococcal Vaccines: Epidemiology Forecast to 2028’, reveals that the average pediatric pneumococcal vaccination rates in the combined 7MM are expected to marginally change from 85.98 per cent in 2018 to 85.12 per cent in 2028

SCHOTT Glass Strenghtens India Facility As Asian Hub

With investments of close to €47 million in India over two years, global pharmaceutical glass manufacturer SCHOTT AG clearly sees the country as a vital cog in its global strategy. Georg Sparschuh, MD, SCHOTT Glass India and Dr Patrick Markschläger, Executive VP, SCHOTT AG, Business Unit Tubing reveal the company's strategy to build India into an Asian hub for SCHOTT pharma tubing, their endeavours to be as sustainable as posssible and how investing in the futures of the communities in which their manufacturing plants are based is simply good business practice

Bombay College Of Pharmacy Receives FICCI Award For Excellence In Research

The award was received by Prof Krishnapriya Mohanraj, in-charge Principal, from Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari

‘We Consider The Ever-evolving Needs Of The Industry As An Opportunity To Do More And Serve Better'

Ashok Kumar Prusty, Executive Vice President, Bry-Air reveals more about hi company’s offerings for the pharma sector, in an interaction with Sanjiv Das

Biocon Appoints Siddharth Mittal As Its CEO And Joint MD

He takes over from Dr Arun Chandavarkar who retired as Chief Executive Officer & Joint Managing Director of Biocon on November 30, 2019

The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: Pride And Growth Lever Of India

Sudarshan Jain, Secretary General, IPA and Archana Jatkar,Associate Secretary General, IPA reminisce on five significant steps which changed the course of India’s pharma industry and outline five steps that the industry needs to take for sustained growth over the next 25 years

Augmenting India's Medical Arsenal: Genomicswill Facilitate Developing New-age Medicines

Pranav Anam, Founder, The Gene Box explains how pharmacogenomics can create far reaching impact in the pharma industry such as addressing medicine wastage and establishing health equity

IMCD Opens Three New Centres In India, China, Southeast Asia

The move adds to the company’s further expansion of global network in the Asia Pacific region

'Patient-centric Marketing Will Become A Fundamental Pillar In The Future Of Pharma Marketing'

Sumita Mohapatro Pani, Senior General Manager, Lupin speaks to Viveka Roychowdhury on the rewriting of the pharma sales and marketing playbook in the past two decades and highlights what makes pharma brand positioning so unique

Pregnant Women May Not Have Safety Risks With Common Travel Vaccines

Researchers examined data from trials of common travel vaccines and found high-quality evidence that two - the flu vaccine and the Tdap vaccine (against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) - are safe for pregnant women and their babies

“We expect to analyse patient safety data more quickly and detect trends”

With the introduction of SafeTrack tool, Bayer Zydus Pharma takes a step further in enhancing patient security. The tool allows patients, consumers, family, friends, caregivers and healthcare professionals to report side effects quickly. The company believes that good information is crucial for effective treatment. Manoj Saxena, Managing Director, Bayer Zydus Pharma discusses more about the web-based tool, SafeTrack, with Usha Sharma

‘Lupin has gained significant momentum towards development of biosimilar products with primary focus on regulated markets'

Lupin Biotech, with a new-age R&D facility in Pune, is developing and commercializing biosimilars globally. The successful development of Etanercept biosimilar is a case in point. Dr Cyrus Karkaria, President-Biotechnology, Lupin divulges more details about the company’s projects in this arena, its focus areas, future plans of expansion and more, in an exclusive interview with Lakshmipirya Nair