University of Cambridge to pioneer drug development by “academic incubators”

Transasia which is the first Indian company to manufacture & export sophisticated state of the art Blood analyzers and Reagents was awarded the First State level Export award & the Second Regional award by The Industries Department, Govt. of Maharashtra in recognition of the export performance for the year 2006-07 and 2005-06 respectively.

Things are getting more and more scary over at Schering-Plough and Merck as the problems with the cholesterol lowering drugs are looming and Lehman downgraded the stock of Merck. Most readers are aware of the ongoing Vytorin scandal and the Enhance trial debacle.

Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd, leader in the Clinical Diagnostics Segment across the Indian healthcare sector, which aids in diagnosing life threatening diseases faced by the humankind such as, AIDS, Tuberculosis, Cancer and Diabetes etc. has been awarded ISO 13485 by UL India, a certifying body to foster quality assurance and improvement.

China is to improve quality of pharmaceutical products after a number of deaths from low-grade medicaments. The new standard, which takes effect Jan. 1, will tighten rules that currently let a producer obtain a license if three defects are found but corrected, the Xinhua News Agency said.

IBM today announced the availability of an offering that will allow pharmaceutical companies to create an electronic certificate of authenticity (known as an electronic pedigree or ePedigree) for every drug that passes through the supply chain.

India is quietly assuming a new and expanded role in the discovery and development of medicines for patients in the United States and other western countries, according to an article scheduled for the May 21 issue of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), ACS' weekly newsmagazine.

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