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Pharmac South is jointly organized by Orbit Exhibitions Pvt. Ltd. & One of the Premier Associations of Pharma Industry – Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association (TNPSB). It is an International Exhibition for Contract Manufacturers in Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical, Ayurvedic products along with Pharma Machinery, Packaging, Equipment, Material, Bulk Drug, API, Clean Room & Water Technology.  The  details  are as follows: Theme:                         International Exhibition Dates:                           3rd and 4th July 2015 Organized by:             IDMA- TNPSB.  Location:                       Chennai...

Today's Times of India reports an interesting update about use of bacterium to naturally develop a low-cost antivenom powder for all types of snakebites particularly in rural areas. Anurag S Rathore, professor, department of chemical engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), started the project in 2014.  Rathore is collaborating with a researcher at San Jose State University to biologically produce a molecule which can neutralise the poison and be stored at room temperature. The targeted potential cost is $10 per dose, he adds. "We want it to be a powder which can be inhaled and is easy to store and carry."  At the centre of the research is a stable molecule - a peptide, known to deactivate the venom. A solution based on the peptide segment, called lethal toxin neutralising factor or LTNF , was patented three-four decades ago. IIT Delhi filed an application for a provisional patent for the process of producing the peptide in India i...

Dear All, 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 Indian patent applications published on 19 th  June 2015 Invention Application No Inventors Institute Instrument for inducing psychosis in laboratory animals 1093/DEL/2015A 1) Prof. (DR.) Milind Parle 2) Ms. Renu, D/O Shri Maya Singh 3) Ms. Monu, D/O Shri Rohtas Singh Dept. pharm. Sciences, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Campus, Hisar (Haryana). N-((1-benzyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-YL)methyl)arylamide...

Dear All, As you are aware about the Ranbaxy-Sun pharma merger, which was covered here: http://pharmaliterati.blogspot.in/2015/04/end-of-eraranbaxy.html , a further news for the consolidation comes in the media.   The news reports that Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has started easing out excess employees from Ranbaxy, including senior executives, following completion of its $4-billion acquisition of the Gurgaon-based firm. http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/business/18-top-ranbaxy-executives-asked-to-quit/95523.html http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/pharmaceuticals/18-top-ranbaxy-executives-including-indrajit-banerjee-yugal-sikri-get-marching-orders-as-part-of-integration-plan-with-sun-phama/articleshow/47712267.cms http://www.businessinsider.in/Sun-Pharma-hands-out-walking-papers-to-18-top-Ranbaxy-executives/articleshow/47718725.cms   "If there are few employees who could not be positioned appropriately, the organisation will...

Dear all, Pharmabiz reports that Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) recently launched revolutionary mobile application for adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting. The mobile application for ADR reporting was specifically designed to facilitate the needs of the IPC, to ensure hassle free ADR reporting for the stakeholders. It was developed as part of a joint venture between the IPC, which acts as the national coordination centre (NCC) for PvPI, and NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur . The mobile application is expected to provide a platform for the private healthcare professionals to report ADRs to safeguard and enhance public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy and quality of drugs. The application has in-built facilities and features for reporting of adverse drug reactions such as customisation of reporter details, auto entry in drug details, WHO algorithm based causality assessment, etc. This application was launched at IPC Ghaziabad recently, by B P Sharma, secretary, health ...

Dear All, We had posted about bloggers joining our team. See http://pharmaliterati.blogspot.in/2015/05/bloggers-required.html We are pleased to welcome our second blogger, Ms Pari Bhatt from Ahmedabad, Gujarat. She has done her M. Pharma from L. J. Institute of Pharmacy and B. Pharma from  L. B. Rao Institute of Pharma Research & Education, Khambhat. She is working currently with an organization based in Ahmedabad.  We welcome Pari to our team and wish a luck in the endeavour. To join as a blogger with Pharma Literati team, send your CV to pharmaliterati@gmail.com Team Pharma Literati.  

Dear All, 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 Indian patent applications published on 12 th  June 2015 Invention Application No Inventors Institute Novel liquid crystalline nanoparticulate composition and process of preparation thereof 3558/DEL/2013A 1) Sanyog Jain 2) Nitin Kumar Swarnarkar 3) Kaushik Thanki 4) Pooja Yadav 5) Gandrathi Kuldeep Kumar 6) Heeralal B. NIPER, Mohali An improved, catalyst free, greener process for synthesis of xanthenediones deriv...