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Active In Strategy Planning For Biotechnology Industry

HAVING PHD IN GENETICS AND PLANT BREEDING, AND A POST- DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP, DR RENU SWARUP IS PLAYING AN ACTIVE ROLE IN STRATEGY PLANNING FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY

Golden Jubilee Biotech Park For Women, Chennai

Golden Jubilee Biotech Park for Women is a successful first of its kind women centric life sciences ecosystem contributing to the 100 Billion-Biotechnology sector - A pioneer in the arena.

Planning And Strategizing Properly To Achieve Success

PROFICIENT AT DIAGNOSING ILLNESSES AND PRESCRIBING AND ADMINISTRATING APPROPRIATE TREATMENT/ MEDICATION FOR VARIOUS GYNECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS DR NANDITA PALSHETKAR IS INSTRUMENTAL IN INCREASING PUBLIC AWARENESS FOR INFERTILITY PROCEDURES

The Future of Biotechnology in India

Dr Harsh Vardhan, Minister, Union Minister, Science and Technology, Earth Science, shares with BioSpecturm the prospects and plans for the biotechnology and medical technology sectors.

Inclusive Healthcare for Digital India?

Inclusive Healthcare for Digital India?

Meeting of Minds of Senior Management on Both Sides Is Key to Merger Success

A study of the history of mergers and acquisitions offers a broad spectrum of lessons that should be learnt, so as to ensure that such deals are successful. Be it the first wave of consolidation that occurred in the US and Europe in the 1890s or the post globalisation conglomerate behemoths that are a result of the recent wave of mergers; a key component in the success of these operations is strategic human resources planning.

Digital Health​​​​​​​ the Dawn of a New Era in Healthcare

Technology has revolutionized almost all sectors, healthcare being no different. The convergence of technology and healthcare has opened up a whole new world of possibilities that promise to improve the quality and efficiency of various healthcare services. 

Digital Technology Can Change Healthcare

Digital Technology Can Change Healthcare - Cover Story

India Free From Avian Influenza

Strict surveillance including culling, disinfection and clean-up have worked remarkably in making India free from Avian Influenza. Specified actions formulated by the Ministry of Health still needs to be taken up regularly.

Growing Burden Of Head And Neck Cancer In India

Despite great advancements, the management of Head and Neck cancers still remains a problematic and intriguing issue due to the complex anatomy of the various sites.

Industry - Academia Collaboration For The Early Development Of Biopharmaceuticals

With an aim of creating a globally competitive biopharmaceutical industry that addresses the country’s major concerns around barriers to affordable healthcare, Innovate in India (I3) program was launched by Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Science & Technology on 30th June 2017 in New Delhi.

Union Budget 2017 Will Startups Get What They Want?

Expectations rising high over the pending promises of the last budget.

Ireland Provides an Easy Market Into Europe

Sahajanand Medical Technologies (SMt) is developer and manufacturer of minimal-ly invasive coronary stent systems in India and supplies to around 60 countries in Europe, Asia, MENA and Latin America. the company has received numerous awards for its breakthrough innovations and quality, that have led to thinner and more flexible DES (drug-eluting stents) with good long term clinical results.SMT is establishing its European headquarters, including Research, Development and Innovation centre in Ireland. We chat with SMt’s Western European Head, Gaurav Goel, to know more about it.

Cafeteria Diet - One of the prominent reasons behind stroke in India

In the recently concluded 10th World Stroke Congress 2016 at Hyderabad, jointly organised by World Stroke Organisation (WSO) and Indian Stroke Association & Medtronic Inc., medical practitioners announced the launch of Stroke Roadmap in India. Currently, stroke incidence in India is much higher than western industrialised countries. With a population of 1.2 billion today and growing, India finds itself staring at a stroke epidemic.The officials claim that the newly designed roadmap is intended to guide local healthcare officials and stroke care clinical groups in establishing stroke systems of care and will provide the framework for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of stroke services nationally. In an exclusive interaction with BioSpectrum, Dr Jeyaraj Durai Pandian, Head of Neurology, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana elaborates on the subject, and how the Stroke Roadmap might prove a perfect shield to dodge the disease.

Exempt Healthcare Services From GST

Exempt Healthcare Services From GST

NCDs Alarm Demands Bold Steps

India is first country to develop targets, indicators to reduce global premature deaths from NCDs by 25 per cent by 2025.

Acquisition Of Janssen Products Has Strengthened Our Product Range

Piramal Critical Care, a leader in the field on anaesthesia, both inhaled and intravenous, is expanding business globally.

Effort Towards Training & Skill Devp Of Life Sciences Talent Pool

India has about 500 recognised universities and 26,000 colleges, some of them holding worldwide ranking (according to agencies conducting ranking surveys).

Meet Addresses Need Of Innovation And Research Towards Solving Problems Of Society

The theme ‘Impacting the Biotech Innovation Ecosystem’ aptly reflected the Fifth Foundation Day of Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) that was celebrated recently.

from super computing to health informatics

prof. rajat moona director general, c-dac spread across 11 centres in india, the centre for development of advanced computing, better known as c-dac, is working silently to usher in a healthcare revolution through ict. here’s an exclusive interview with c-dac’s director general, prof. rajat moona

“Indian Customer Will Continue To See New Product Development”

SpectrumLabs.com is a global player in membrane separation technologies for the pharmaceutical, bioprocess, diagnostic and research industries. Spectrum focuses on two core technologies, Single-Use Hollow Fiber Tangential Flow Filtration and Tubular Membrane Dialysis.

India Needs Proper Biosupplier Ecosystem

With economic growth and addition of biotechnology to its portfolio, India is rapidly becoming a global player in the life sciences and healthcare space. Educating and achieving scientific excellence demands a really high level of R&D. Now that the government is investing more resources in research and medical facilities and infrastructure, from educational institutes to hospitals, use of lab equipment, reagents or medical devices are growing rapidly. This will drive the growth of biosupplier market in the country.

“Data Sharing, Post Study Access To Trial Medication Are Emerging Frontiers”

“Data Sharing and Post study access to trial medication for study subjects are the two emerging frontiers in clinical research space,” said Dr Saral Thangam, CEO & Managing Director, Norwich Clinical Services.

Biotechnology - Where Is It Heading?

On one hand, the biotechnology industry is starved of skilled talent pool. On the other hand, there are several universities and colleges, producing number of unemployable graduates. While some of them are struggling due to lack of students. So serious thinking needs to be done urgently to overcome this problem.

Pharma Exporters To US Under Pressure

Recent USFDA hike of fee for processing ANDA will certainly going to put immense pressure on the Indian pharma industry, resulting eviction of many small players from this pharma export business.

“We Have Streamlined The Whole Process Of Reviewing And Approval”

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) signed an agreement recently with other global agencies to develop and implement policies within the next 12 months that require all trials they fund, co-fund, sponsor or support to be registered in a publicly available registry. 

“Private Sector, Government Need To Work Together To Make Healthcare Accessible In Rural India”

For the first time National Heath Policy is talking about the preventive healthcare and wellness. From the statement point of view, it is really a commendable thing but now it has to be translated on to the ground. Harish Pillai COO, Indus Health Plus in an interaction with BioSpectrum India talks about why preventive healthcare is the need of the hour and how it can be successful.

Make In India' - A Major Boon To Medical Technology Industry

Having a solid expertise in research and development, Trivitron manufactures and distributes exceptional medical technology products to 165 countries for the last 20 years. Today, Trivitron Healthcare, through successful inorganic synergies with local and global firms, has a revenue turnover of Rs 750 crore. BioSpectrum India spoke to Dr GSK Velu, Chairman & Managing Director, Trivitron Healthcare Group of Companies to about the status of medical technology market in India and competition coming from Chinese medical devices.Excerpts of the interview

Association Of Indian Medical Device Industry (AIMED) Recommendations

Association Of Indian Medical Device Industry (AIMED) Recommendations

Medical Devices Rules, 2017 Opens Up Enormous Opportunities

The new Medical Devices Rules, 2017 seek to remove regulatory bottlenecks to make in India, facilitate ease of doing business while ensuring availability of better medical devices for patient care and safety. The rules will also regulate a much larger set of medical devices under a framework customized for medical devices. The stakeholders are hoping that the system will be industry friendly and will indeed create an ecosystem that will enable to boost medical technology innovation and manufacturing in the country.