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COVID-19 UNLOCKING INDIA’S CAPACITY IN LIFE SCIENCES

Today, for India, the COVID-19 pandemic is a strong catalyst to re-inforce the Make in India initiative to facilitate investment, promote innovation, enhance skill development, protect intellectual property and build best in class manufacturing infrastructure in the life sciences sector. For fostering an innovation ecosystem or hub within India, interventions across three dimensions will be required which includes encouraging industryacademia collaboration; increasing R&D investment; and reinvigorating government support

ICMR vaccine timeline - An unrealistic approach?

A letter written by the ICMR Director General Prof Balram Bhargava to the heads of 12 selected institutions for fast-track clinical trials of the indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, COVAXIN and launching it by August 15 has stirred waves of uncertainty across the country.

6 mins

Covid-19 Unlocking India's Capacity In Life Sciences

Today, for India, the COVID-19 pandemic is a strong catalyst to re-inforce the Make in India initiative to facilitate investment, promote innovation, enhance skill development, protect intellectual property and build best in class manufacturing infrastructure in the life sciences sector. For fostering an innovation ecosystem or hub within India, interventions across three dimensions will be required which includes encouraging industry-academia collaboration; increasing R&D investment; and reinvigorating government support.

10+ mins

COVID-19 Likely To Linger On Till 2021?

Easy mode of transmission, nature of the virus, population density, environmental condition, social culture are the major contributors to the rapid spreading of COVID-19 across the globe. But in order to break the chain of transmission, one needs to understand the transmission dynamics of this ongoing pandemic, which is somehow unclear.

5 mins

“Our technology can reduce SARSCoV-2 particles by more than 99.9%”

With the development of a medication to combat the novel coronavirus still in the works, it has become imperative to find an immediate solution for this global pandemic.

5 mins

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