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Indian Hospital Pharmacists Association (IHPA) in association with M.M. College of Pharmacy, M.M. University, Mullana-Ambala, Haryana (IHPA) is organizing 51st Annual Conference, 2015.   IHPA is one of the federating bodies of Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Association (IPCA) and Indian Confederation of Health Accreditation (ICHA). During conference emphasis will be on contemporary issues like– different aspects of Hospital Pharmacy practice, participitation of pharmacists in NRHM scheme, Pharmacovigilance, patient counselling related issues will be taken care of. There will be Oral/ Poster session for young researchers and budding pharmacists/students. As a part of Scientific business lectures will be delivered by the renowned experts of pharmacy, Medical and Management field which will make the event attractive, meaningful and provide orientation to the delegates.   The details are as follows: Theme:          ...

I. T. S pharmacy college, Ghaziabad is organizing one-day inter-college pharma festival Pharma Mindz on 27th Feb. 2015. The details are as follows: Theme:              Inter-college pharma festival Dates:                27 th  February, 2015. Organized by:    I. T. S pharmacy college, Ghaziabad   Location:            I. T. S Paramedical college (Pharmacy), Muradnagar, Ghaziabad .   Details available at: http://pharmacy.its.edu.in/anoucements/3d920epharma%20mindz%202015.pdf  

School of Pharmaceutical Management, The IIHMR UNIVERSITY, Jaipur announces MANTHAN 2015: ‘All India Online Essay Contest’.   The essay contest is organized with an objective to harness the energy, imagination and creativity of the budding graduates in developing an in depth understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and exploring new career avenues in the field of pharmaceutical management.   ·          FIRST PRIZE:                                        Rs 5000/- ·          SECOND PRIZE:                                    RS ...

Financial Express reports that BIOCON, India’s largest biotechnology company, is in the midst of coordinating a series of moves aimed at taking it to the next growth orbit.   The key step among these is to list Syngene , its contract research subsidiary , by the first half of next fiscal. This fiscal, it also expects to complete building its first greenfield overseas manufacturing facility in Malaysia—billed as Asia’s largest integrated insulin manufacturing facility —though the process of plant validation and getting regulatory clearances will take much longer. The company, which last year launched a trastuzumab biosimilar targetting the R130 crore market for breast cancer treatment in India, says its R&D pipeline is progressing well. Two additional global biosimilar programmes entered clinical trials recently. It is also expecting some critical readouts from clinical trials of its oral insulin drug in the US. Biocon is partnering with American pharma company Mylan f...

The Business Standard reports that Over the past few years, pharma companies have increased their R&D budgets significantly in view of their growing focus both on regulated markets and complex molecules/therapy segments .   According to a recent ICRA report, in FY14, most of the leading pharma players spent anywhere between Rs 500 and Rs 1200 crore on R&D, which represented an increase both in absolute term as well as in proportion to net revenues (around 8-11 per cent of sales). For most Indian companies, growth has so far been led by plain-vanilla generics and interesting Para IV opportunities. Competition is rapidly intensifying in plain vanillas as well as para IV filings with more players from India as well as other emerging countries targeting US generic market. Hence to sustain growth as well improve profitability, few Indian companies have already increased spending on R&D. If we look at some of the Gujarat based pharma companies, like Alemb...

Dear All,             In blog-post dated 6 th February, 2015 we had discussed about ever greening of pharmaceutical journals and asked our readers whether is it a sign of growing research in Indian pharmacy institutes? We received a response from Dr. Devdas Santani. He has not provided his affiliation. A profile available at http://www.rofelpharma.org/dr_d_d_santani.htm reveals that he is associated with Rofel Shri GM Bilakhia Collge of Pharmacy, Vapi, Gujrat. He carries with him more than 4 decades of experience in teaching and research. We are reproducing the response as below. “Research Publications have become essential for promotions as well as assessment of employees' work output. That is why regardless of the availability of research materials, more and more papers are sent for publication even at times compromising with the standard. Also some standard journals take too much time in publishing articles beca...

Dear All, Every week of thousands of patent applications are published in India. The patent applications filed by the 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   Indian patent applications published on 6th February 2015 Invention Application No Inventors Institute Diagnostic tool for identification of patients at risk of coronary disease or restenosis 2277/DEL/2013 A 1) Sharma Yash Paul 2) Patyar Rakesh Raman PGIMER, Chandigarh Chemoprevention of breast cancer using nanoparticulate currcumin compostions 2307/DEL/2013 A 1) Yadav Deepak 2) Yadav Kiran 3)...