Careers
Biotech Needs Leaders and PhDs
Biotechnology has a future. But PhDs and leadership qualities are needed at this point of time, DBT secretary Dr MK Bhan and IGIB director Dr Samir K Brahmachari tell students.
BioCareers
Trail Blazing Trials
Clinical development of a new drug comprises about two thirds of the total development costs. With focus on cost containment across the global pharma companies, speedier, low cost and reliable clinical trials are the order of the day. And India is emerging as a natural choice for contract clinical research services.
Widening horizons in BioInformatics
With genomics research making strides, the volume of life sciences related data is increasing at a very fast pace. Organizing, analyzing and further utilizing this knowledge, collectively called as bioinformatics, is still a nascent and largely unexplored field in India.
Pharma
BioPharma longs for scientists
With the focus shifting to R&D and manufacturing of biotech-based drugs, its good news for biotechnology professionals.
"Centralized Recruitment Cell at CSIR, a future possibility"
Agri
BioAgri attracts domain specialists
The application of modern sciences to agriculture is not only changing the face of Indian agriculture but is also brightening the career prospects of those interested in this field. Now instead of an all in one agriculturist, the services of specialists—plant molecular biologist, geneticist, biochemist, people specializing in functional genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics along with technical support and marketing staff are needed.
BioSuppliers - A niche opportunity
The growth of biotech industry both in research and manufacturing sectors is being supported with equipment, consumables and knowledge management tools by the BioSuppliers. Due to high growth rates, there is a thrust to increase the manpower, in this sector
Pharma
BioServices: The in thing
India is an attractive destination for custom research and offers many advantages to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the areas of R&D, drug discovery and development and expansion of research capabilities. India exhibits global advantage through its large reservoir of scientific talent, its engineering prowess in process development and manufacturing and through its rapidly developing clinical research capabilities. The BioServices sector has great potential and offers tremendous career opportunities
Industry wave
There is a boom in biotech careers. More and more companies are upgrading their workforce, bringing in people with specialized skills. But at the same time they are very selective. BioSpectrum talked to some of the leading biotech companies to get a feel of what is hot and which set of skills would they be looking for in their potential employees in the next few years.
Bioinformatics red hot
Informatics
Bioinformatics: wave of the future
Everyone is now talking about bioinformatics. This is the new segment created by the merger of two hot areas: information technology and biotechnology. So this has become one of the most promising field for job hunters. What are the opportunities available in this field?
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