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Team Pharma Literati is pleased to announce our readers an exclusive series on pharma entrepreneurship. In this series, we would present interviews of new-age entrepreneurs who chose the unique path of entrepreneurship. "If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs". PHARMACAD is a dream of a first generation Entrepreneur Mr. Pranav Ganatra. He along with his co-founder Ms. Jigyasa Jain is making sure that the pharmacy students get proper career guidance during their graduation years.  PHARMACAD is not only about coaching for GPAT, NIPER, NMAT and other exams but also about the industrial training program for the students, a placement agency planned  and career guidance centre. Please visit   www.pharmacad.in Tell us something about yourself. Hello, firstly thank you for having me here today. Ever since I decided to take pharmacy as my career, the journey has been pretty amazing...

Team Pharma Literati is pleased to announce our readers an exclusive series on pharma entrepreneurship. In this series, we would present interviews of new-age entrepreneurs who chose the unique path of entrepreneurship. "If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs". Entrepreneurship  has been the buzzword across the b-schools. The global uncertainty over the job market, growing consolidation activities have resulted into job losses. Some of the brave hearts in the meantime have taken on this unconventional path of entrepreneurship in different fields.  The new age pharmacists have broken the barriers of fields, industries and territories. In this series, we bring to our readers really inspiring stories of passion, hard-work, determination and thinking out of the box to achieve their dreams.  Happy Reading. 

Glenmark, which has graduated to a global organisation in a very short span with its expanded manufacturing footprint, international operations and global employee base, reported a 276.08 per cent rise in revenue since 2012 The company that emerged as India’s third fastest growing company in the Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 9,999 crore turnover category in   BW Businessworld’s Fastest Growing Companies list 2017 , says its strategic roadmap is completely synergised with its business, and its aim is to move up the value chain to become an innovation-led company with a solid foundation in the generics business. According to chairman and managing director Glenn Saldanha, the company’s primary objective has always been to facilitate its evolution from a generics organisation to a fully-integrated, globally commercialised pharmaceuticals company with innovative products. Glenmark has always focussed on long-term growth strategy, while meeting short-term growth objectives. As a result...

We recently had the pleasure to interview Dr. Anwar Shaikh, a multi-faceted and multi-talented professional working within pharma academia. Dr. Anwar is in pharmacy academia and is involved in animation based teaching specifically in the chemistry domain.  During this short interaction, he provided us information about various activities he is involved in the innovative teaching methodologies in the pharmacy profession. He spoke specifically about ‘ PharmaCareer ’ mobile app developed by him for the students in the pharmaceutical arena. ·       Hello Dr. Anwar. First of all congratulations on the launch of the ‘PharmaCareer’ mobile application.  Before moving ahead for the information related to mobile app, would you please brief our readers with yourself?  Your educational background and your college days? Thanks a lot, My Self Dr. Anwar Rafique Shaikh, I have completed Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Chemistry fro...

Quality is a challenge for the Indian pharmaceutical sector, the largest supplier of drugs to the United States, according to a recent blog by the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA). Of the 42 warning letters sent out by its office of manufacturing quality last year, nine — about one-fifth — were addressed to Indian facilities. The number could rise over the next three years as the US FDA would inspect 190 facilities that it could not in the past five years, wrote Edelweiss Securities. “ Quality issues are an ongoing challenge for the Indian pharmaceutical industry ,” wrote Mary Lou Valdez, FDA’s associate commissioner for international programmes . US FDA inspections in India and China have doubled — 20 per cent of total inspections now, compared to 11 per cent earlier — since 2012. This has led to a spurt in warning letters as well. In 2012, the amendments to the Generic Drug User Fee Act (GDUFA), 2008, made it compulsory for manufacturers of generic prescription ...

Some observations in the NIRF Rankings in Pharmacy institutes for 2017 28 of the top 100 pharma institutes are from Maharashtra. 17 of the top 50 pharma institutes are from Maharashtra. 6 institutes from Maharashtra are included in the band of 51-75. 5 institutes from Maharashtra are included in the band of 76-100. 7 institutes from top 100 institutes are from Mumbai and 8 institutes are from Pune. Institutes from 10 different universities are covered in top 100 institutes. Institutes from non-metros like Warananagar, Shirpur, Kopargaon, Latur are included in the list of top 100 institutes. Few surprising inclusions in the list. Let the readers think over this….. Most of the premier institutes are covered in the list…… The list of institutes from Maharashtra covered and their rankings are as follows: Rank Name City 4...