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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
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December 2017
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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.
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December 2017
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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
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December 2017
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Versatility Is Key To Success
Being the President and Chief of Science & Innovation at Metropolis Healthcare Ltd., India’s only multinational chain of pathology centre that provides the largest service menus in India offering more than 4,500 varieties of tests, Dr Nilesh Shah has been an inspirational figure.
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March 2017
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Accurate Diagnosis, Efficient Disease Management: Modern Age of Pathology
The world of pathology labs has grown by leaps and bounds in the past decade.
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March 2017
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Union Budget 2017 Will Startups Get What They Want?
Expectations rising high over the pending promises of the last budget.
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December 2016
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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.
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December 2016
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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.
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December 2016
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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.
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March 2017
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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.
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March 2017
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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).
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April 2017
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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.
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April 2017
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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
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november 2016
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Exempt Healthcare Services From GST
Exempt Healthcare Services From GST
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January 2018
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“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.
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September 2017
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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.
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September 2017
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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.
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January 2017
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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.
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November 2016
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Digital Technology Can Change Healthcare
Digital Technology Can Change Healthcare - Cover Story
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November 2016
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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.
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August 2017
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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.
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August 2017
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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.
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August 2017
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PE Giants Eyeing Stake At Mankind Worth Crores
Big private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds are exploring a purchase deal share worth at least Rs 5,000-crore ($750-million) in India’s fifth largest drug maker Mankind Pharma.
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December 2017
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Promoting Affordable Healthcare
WITH MORE THAN 25 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN HEALTHCARE, TERRI BRESENHAM HAS MADE SEVERAL CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS ADDRESSING GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES
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December 2017
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Assisting Breast Cancer Diagnosis
AFTER LEADING THE CANCER DRUG DISCOVERY AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ON ‘POINT-OF-CARE’ DIAGNOSTICS AT RENOWNED COMPANIES, DR MANJIRI M. BAKRE IS NOW DEVELOPING COST EFFECTIVE AND RELIABLE TESTS FOR PERSONALIZED CANCER TREATMENT.
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December 2017
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Transforming Hair & Skin Care
A DOCTORATE IN TRICHOLOGY HELPED DR BANI ANAND TO TAKE HAIR & SKIN CARE TREATMENT FROM NON-SURGICAL COMPETENCIES TO SURGICAL TREATMENT OPTIONS.
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December 2017
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Enhancing Clinical Drug Developments
WITH HER 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, BINDHYA CARIAPPA IS WORKING ON PUTTING INDIA ON THE GLOBAL CLINICAL TRIAL MAP.
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December 2017
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Biotech Parks Relevance & Untapped Potential
With effective regulatory framework, government and private support, biotechnology parks can provide an ideal platform for companies, universities and R&D institutes to promote bioactivities.
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February 2017
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Demand For Specialised Infrastructure, Incubators Continues To Be Moderate To Strong
Utkarsh Palnitkar says only a few biotech parks support industry with ready-to-use lab facilities for R&D, incubation support for start-ups and dedicated land for scaling up activities are operational in India.
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February 2017
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Agilent In Agreement With Agendia For Cancer Diagnostics
Agilent Technologies Inc. and Agendia, Inc. have jointly announced an agreement to expand their relationship to include the development of an RNA Seq kit version of Agendia’s currently marketed Mamma Print and Blueprint tests.
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