Biotech Players and Healthcare in India

Chitra Ramakrishnan

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Bio technology has received a lot of support from government in terms of infrastructure (creation of biotech parks), R&D Focus and Patent protection. Despite this start ups have major hurdles to cross like intellectual property rights, regulatory reforms, seed capital and lack of R&D focus. India is a hub for vaccine market as companies like Shantha Biotech who are making headway in the market are finding out. Another area for start ups is the clinical trials market. India offers the unique opportunity to discover the functional significance of human genome sequence because of its genetically divergent patient population.

Bangalore Genei, Avesthagen, Gangagen are the up and coming companies. The very fresh faces in biotech are Inbiopro, Bioserver technologies and the like. Bangalore Genei’s products and services include design, development, production, testing and marketing of biological research products. Gangagen is a biotech company developing proprietary products for the prevention of bacterial infections, especially infections that are resistant to antibiotics. Avesthagen is a leading life science company in Predictive Preventive Personalized Healthcare. The company is into Bio nutrition, Bio agriculture, Genomics study and Bio Pharmaceuticals.

Inbiopro is a bio technology company that partners, manufactures and markets biosimilars. It undertakes outsourced clinical trials and toxicology studies. BioServe Biotechnologies, offers oligonucleotide synthesis and other quality molecular biology services to the Indian research institutes and industries.

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