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The cost of bad quality can have a devastating impact on a company, beyond financial liability. In the context of medicines that impact is on patients. Though this may seem like an obvious observation, it formed the central theme of a recent pharma industry conclave, reiterating the need for a quality-oriented culture in drug companies. With representation of drug regulators from India, the US, the UK and France, the conclave came at a time when some of the industry's top drugmakers are facing regulatory action in foreign markets or are in the process of remediation efforts. Naturally, the message going out from the conclave was unambiguous. There is no place for short-cuts. Companies need to get their operations right the first time, have early-warning systems to pick up quality or data transgressions, and they need to identify the root cause and take remedial actions to fix the problem. After all, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, sai...

Medicinoxy is the leading academic web portal for careers of professors, lecturers, researchers and academic managers in schools of medicine, pharmacy and biomedical sciences worldwide.  Medicinoxy assists higher education institutions in recruiting in Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, China, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States. Medicinoxy attracts the attention of the academic audience of more than 920,000 professors, lecturers, researchers and academic managers who represent the academic disciplines and professions in the fields of medicine, pharmacy and biomedical sciences including anatomy, anesthesiology,...

Pharma Innovation Yatra   launched in the month of January 2017 has covered eight different institutes at 6 different locations covering 4 universities.  The events were conducted with presentations on creative thinking, innovation and role of patents in the pharmaceutical industry. 1. Vivekanand Education Society’s College of Pharmacy. Website: https://ves.ac.in/pharmacy/ University: University of Mumbai. Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra. 2. M. C. E. Society’s Allana College of Pharmacy. Website: http://www.allanacollegeofpharmacy.org/ University: Savitribai Phule Pune University. Location: Pune, Maharashtra. 3. SVKM’s Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Pharmacy. Website: http://www.bncp.ac.in/ University: University of Mumbai. Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra. 4. ...

The guidelines address six elements critical for data reliability such as technology systems, process design, risk management, governance, culture and capability, according to Vikas Bhadoria, senior partner at McKinsey & Company The Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) , an industry lobby group, along with knowledge partner McKinsey & Company has devised guidelines on data reliability as part of its efforts to help improve quality systems at a time when domestic drug makers are facing challenges in dealing with the evolving quality compliance norms of global regulators. The guidelines address six elements critical for data reliability such as technology systems, process design, risk management, governance, culture and capability, said Vikas Bhadoria, senior partner at McKinsey & Company. The data reliability guidelines were released on Thursday at the second edition of IPA’s quality excellence conference, India Pharmaceutical Forum 2017, in Mumbai. The gui...

SN Mobile app Features Operating systems 1.        Medicinal Chemistry Toolkit (Free) The app contains tools to calculate and graphically visualize a number of values, including: ·     Cheng-Prusoff; ·     Dose to man; ·     Gibbs free energy to binding constant; ·     potency shift due to plasma protein binding; ·     Log D vs pH curves; ·     Ligand Lipophilic Efficiency; ·     GClogP The App also includes a compound quality calculator, a maximum absorbable dose calculator; attrition modeller, drug-drug interactions calculator and more. The App also includes a compound quality calculator, a maximum absorbable dose calculator; attrition modeller, drug-drug interactions calculator and more. iPad and requires iOS 7.1 or later. 2. ...

We have published all the winning entries and other notable entries received for the 1st Annual Pharma Literati Essay contest. We would be sending the certificates for all these participants and the prize details to the winners before 28th February 2017. If any of the participants have any queries or do not receive email from our side, please send an email at  pharmaliterati@gmail.com