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New Entrant, Quick Development
Intas Pharmaceuticals Ltd, a fast growing pharmaceutical company with an annual turnover of Rs 381 crore (financial year 2003-04), has entered the biotechnology space by launching recombinant human Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor (G-CSF) in August this year.
Affordable Immunity With Superior Technology
From being a single-product vaccine manufacturer for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) to a larger biologicals manufacturer, Hyderabad-based Indian Immunologicals Ltd (IIL) has come a long way. With a quest for affordable immunity, its commitment towards world-class quality products at viable prices is evident enough.
Clinical Trials, A Peanuts Business: Vasireddi
Hyderabad-based, Vimta Labs is a leading provider of multi-disciplinary contract research and testing services in India. It provides services in the areas of clinical research, pre-clinical (animal) studies, clinical reference lab services, environmental assessments and analytical testing of a wide variety of products.
Getting Aggressive
With an objective to establish commercially viable biotech processes with applications in medicine, agriculture and industry, Krebs Biochemicals & Industries, a BioSpectrum Top 20 company, has made pioneering efforts in exploiting traditional microbial technology over the last decade.
Phage Research
In India, it is rare to come across companies that break the mould of conventional research and get into challenging and relatively unknown fields. Gangagen is one such.
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Small Wonder
This is one among the first few Indian diagnostics’ companies to receive the ISO 13485: 1996 certificate. It is all set to launch its malaria diagnostic kit shortly and will be coming out with a tumor marker kit in the next 2-3 months.
R&D: Way of Life at Panacea
Panacea Biotec, a BioSpectrum Top 20 company, has had an exciting phase in the past year. The company made significant strides not just on the numbers front but also in research. For the quarter ended December 2003, its income grew to Rs 103.89 crore.
From Plasma to Biotech
Bharat Serums and Vaccines, a BioSpectrum Top 20 company, has the capability to take up a research project through all the phases of development independently with its own infrastructure and manpower.
Pune’s biotech offerings
The large biotechnology research community in Pune is cranking out a number of significant methods to effectively combat some of the most troublesome diseases facing the humanity.
Bringing international tools and techniques to India
Established in 1991, Genetix Biotech Asia is one of the first few companies to warehouse life sciences products from its major suppliers. Its business of stock and sell has been a real success story as the company has grown by 100 percent every year for the last two years. The revenue figure of Genetix in 2003-2004 is projected to be Rs 25 crore.
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BD India - Accelerating biomedical discovery
From genes to proteins to cells, BD Biosciences provides a comprehensive portfolio of reagents, systems and technical expertise, offering solutions to life sciences and accelerating the pace of biomedical discovery.
A public sector success story
Most public sector undertakings are known for their poor performance with only a few making profits. An exception to this trend is Haffkine BioPharmaceutical Corporation Ltd, a Government of Maharashtra undertaking, which is sharing the profits with its workforce.
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