Piramal Healthcare to invest in China
Pirmal Healthcare has said it will invest in manufacturing facilities in China and is looking for acquisitions.
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Pirmal Healthcare has said it will invest in manufacturing facilities in China and is looking for acquisitions.
Himalaya Drug Company is set for a bigger push into rural markets with the launch of a new strategic business unit (SBU) for expanding into smaller towns and hinterland districts.
With a view to promote research and development in the pharmaceutical sector, the government plans to provide soft loans of INR 100 crore to the industry in the current fiscal.
Sixteen months after it was set up, an inter-ministerial group is set to finalise a new pharma policy for the country.
Pharmaceuticals company Novartis is acquiring a potential US$ 39bn (
A latest Ernst & Young survey of Chief financial officers (CFOs) in the Indian pharmaceutical sector underscores important changes in the role of the CFO and the finance function in driving the success of pharmaceutical companies. Respondents of the India CFO survey envisaged a change in their responsibilities, with an increased focus on serving as business partners and managing growth.
A new EU-funded information and communication technology (ICT) project is tackling issues of safety in newly developed drugs. Over the next three and a half years, the ALERT (‘Early detection of adverse drug events by integrative mining of clinical records and biomedical knowledge’) project partners will work on an innovative computer system for a better and faster detection of adverse drug reactions (ADRs).
The market for Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, applications in pharmaceuticals is conservatively estimated to reach US$ 600 million by 2012 with a compound annual growth rate of 60 percent, according to a new market research study.
Pharmaceutical firm Suven Life Sciences has signed an agreement with US-based Eli Lilly to collaborate on the pre-clinical research of molecules used in the treatment of Central Nervous System(CNS) disorders.
Quintiles Transnational Corp. has announced that its central laboratory in India has been certified by the College of American Pathologists (CAP).
Pharmaceutical firm Merck Ltd announced recently that it has partnered with software firm Cirrius Wireless Technologies for providing mobile-based solution, marketing network and activation system (MANAS) to its sales representatives across the country.
Drug maker Wockhardt has announced it will spin off its R&D business and list the new company on stock exchange on January 1, 2009. The company thus has followed similar moves by other pharma companies, who have hived off their research and development units.
Pharma blogs are playing an important role in shaping the future of the pharmaceutical industry in India. Many Indian online financial portal and investment firms as well as research organisations have provided a blogging platform for the pharma industry to keep itself updated with the development in the pharma world through open and uncensored discussion.