The Changing Nature of Disease
Across India we have at least three distinct seasons, not counting the arid west or the tundra-like north. The most distinct is the monsoon followed by post-monsoon and summer with a month or two of winter! With each of these...
What makes a pharma project company truly great?
A long time ago, as I was starting out my career in the pharmaceutical industry, I once heard a strange saying from my somewhat old-fashioned boss. “You can't make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear,” he said. Since...
Biosimilars, Generics and the affordable medicine imperative
Last month Biocon together with Mylan became the first drugmaker to win FDA approval of a biosimilar of Roche's blockbuster cancer drug Herceptin, a drug that has raked in $2.5 billion in U.S. 2016 sales. Biocon has also had much...
Robots vs People – The future of Pharmaceutical Engineering
A typical scenario in a yesteryear’s pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in India would be the long packing line, which had 'packing girls' (yes, they were always women) sitting on either side of a conveyor belt doing their thing as the product...