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Pharma packaging firm Schott Kaisha’s Managing Director Kairus Dadachanji sees a need for the country to provide a push to the primary packaging segment as well as address the menace of counterfeiting. “The most important thing the nation needs to address is counterfeit,” he declared, pointing out how it remained an issue despite packaging being made more difficult to copy. The company is working with the office of the Drug Controller General and the Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India to evolve ways and means to tackle the menace. Underscoring the need to be more strict, he favored a check by the USFDA. Primary packaging is not under the purview of FDA presently and the pharmaceutical companies did the audit, he said. Mr. Dadachanji was in Hyderabad recently for a seminar the company had organised on latest trends and developments in the pharma packaging. “The drug authorities in India and abroad explicitly require that pharmaceutical companie...

Every week of thousands of patent applications are published in India. The patent applications filed by the pharma academic research institutes in India go un-noticed. We publish a list of Indian applications published related to pharma academics. This would provide us an idea about the kind of academic research being carried out in these institutes. For details of these patents, please write back to us at  pharmaliterati@gmail.com Invention Application No Inventors Institute Isolation process for novel biopolymer from the fruit pulp of ficus carica and its inbuilt pharmaceutical bio-excipient property 1965/DEL/2014A 1) Dr. N V Satheesh Madhav 2) Abhay Pratap Yadav DIT University, Dehradun Novel combination kit for treatment of malaria 1983/DEL/2014A 1) Renu Tripathi 2) Prabhat Ranjan Mishra 3) Pankaj Dwivedi 4) Hemlata Dwivedi 5) Sunil Kumar Singh 6) Sunil Kumar ...

Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Pharmacy, Kondhwa (Bk.) Pune is organizing various seminars sponsored by Savitribai Phule Pune University. Event Dates Convenor Email Must Know Regulations for Pharma Professional 29 th & 30 th   January   2016 Dr. M. P. Mahajan, (Mobile: 9850273807) moreshwar.mahajan@sinhgad.edu Pharmacoeconomics & Emerging Career Opportunities 6 th February 2016 Dr. S. S. Pawar, (Mobile: 9822962721) shrikant.pawar@sinhgad.edu New Horizons & advances in Formulation Development of New Dosage Forms 12 th   & 13 th February 2016 Dr. (Mrs) J. R. Madan, (Mobile: 9420148817) jyotsna.madan@sinhgad.edu http://www.sinhgad.edu/PDF/SKNCOP_Seminars_announcement.pdf

Every week of thousands of patent applications are published in India. The patent applications filed by the pharma academic research institutes in India go un-noticed. We publish a list of Indian applications published related to pharma academics. This would provide us an idea about the kind of academic research being carried out in these institutes. For details of these patents, please write back to us at  pharmaliterati@gmail.com Invention Application No. Inventors Institute 15 th   January 2016 Nitrite reductase (NIRB) as potential anti tubercular target and a method to detect the severity of tuberculosis disease 7488/DELNP/2015A 1) Sarkar Dhiman CSIR An ophthalmic topical composition of a vasodilator 2199/MUM/2014A 1) Dr. Kothari R.S. Not known System and method for measuring permeability of drugs/toxic chemical comp...

British drug maker AstraZeneca is betting big on Asia, including emerging markets such as India where it plans to introduce innovative products in its focus areas of cancer, lung diseases and diabetes rather than depend on generic drugs. The company, which warded off a takeover bid from Pfizer last year, is reposing faith in its new drug pipeline to grow in India even as other multinational drug firms complain about lack of intellectual property protection in the country. “There is a high unmet medical need in the South Asia healthcare landscape. Patients are not getting treated with guidelines that are recommended. So, we want to be in the whole healthcare ecosystem that we, as pharma companies, can be part of,” said Joris Silon, AstraZeneca's vice-president for Asia. “The key areas for us in India would be diabetes, asthma, respiratory diseases and oncolog” he said. The intense competition in India's diabetes market has not deterred the company from expanding i...

Vivekanand Education Society's College of Pharmacy, Mumbai is organizing one day symposium and poster competition on, “ Exploring the opportunities and challenges in drug delivery technologies and its pharmacokinetics ”.     Date:               13 th February, 2016. Venue:             Vivekanand Education Society’s College Of Pharmacy, Mumbai. Theme:         Exploring the opportunities and challenges in drug delivery technologies and its pharmacokinetics. Details:             http://www.vesip.org/brochure-Seminar-2016.pdf Abstracts should be mailed by 15th January 2016 at vescopseminar2016@gmail.com

Vivekanand Education Society's College of Pharmacy, Mumbai is organizing One Day Seminar On “ Tropical Diseases: Challenges and Advances ”. The objective of this seminar is to generate awareness, curiosity, sense of responsibility and to develop a research aptitude in the said areas among pharmacy professionals. Medical practitioners and researchers will be sharing their experiences on drug designing & development and clinical aspects of tropical diseases, which will surely enlighten the audience with better understanding of these diseases. The details for the same are as follows: Date:                 Saturday, 16th January, 2016. Topic:               One Day Seminar On “Tropical Diseases: Challenges and Advances”. Please see:        http://www.vesip.org/Final_Semainar_Brochure.pdf

Every week of thousands of patent applications are published in India. The patent applications filed by the pharma academic research institutes in India go un-noticed. We publish a list of Indian applications published related to pharma academics. This would provide us an idea about the kind of academic research being carried out in these institutes. For details of these patents, please write back to us at  pharmaliterati@gmail.com Invention Application No. Inventors Institute 8 th   January 2016 Instrument for measuring learning ability and spatial memory of laboratory animals 4127/DEL/2015A 1) Prof.(Dr.) Milind Parle 2) Ms.Sushila Kaura 3) Ms.Monu Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana. Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors coated nanoparticles conjugates 2164/MUM/2014A 1) Kinnari Harsumanbhai Parek...