Topic: India

Drugs firm GSK 'eyes India acquisitions'

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline is in the market to buy assets in India at a total cost of up to $2.0 billion (1.5 billion euros), its chief executive said in an interview published on Monday.Chief executive Andrew Witty told The Times newspaper that ...

Special report: When the drugs don't work

LONDON (Reuters) - David Livermore is in a race against evolution. In his north London lab, he holds up an evil-smelling culture plate smeared with bacteria. This creamy-yellow growth is the enemy: a new strain of germs resistant to the most powerful ...
Police say a suspected gas leak in a drug manufacturing plant in southern India has killed at least two workers.Police officer Sunder Kumar Das says another four workers were hospitalized early Wednesday in Bolrum. The industrial township is on the outskirts of ...

China to lead world in innovation by 2020: survey

LONDON (Reuters) - China is set to become the world's most important center for innovation by 2020, overtaking both the United States and Japan, according to a public opinion survey to be published on Monday.China is already the world's second-largest economy, after ...

Pantoprazole

Pantoprazole (Sold as Pantotab ; Pantopan ; Protium ; Protonix ; Pantozol ; Pantor ; Pantoloc ; Astropan ; Controloc ; Pantecta ; Inipomp ; Somac ; Ulcepraz ; Pantodac ) is a proton pump inhibitor drug used for short-term treatment of ...

Environmental biotechnology

The article presents some of the highlights of a seminar on sustainable development and the opportunities and challenges in the field of environmental biotechnology held in South India in 2007. Ophthalmologist P. Namperumalsamy focused on the significance of environmental protection and its ...

PHARMALINK

Pharmalink is a privately held Swedish specialty pharma company that develops pharmaceutical products in fields of unmet medical need. Pharmalink has adopted a combined reformulation and repurposing strategy based on new insight of the action of certain drugs in disease. Pharmalink have?currently ...

Aureos exits Indian clinical research company Accutest

Emerging markets-focused private equity firm Aureos Capital has sold its stake in Indian clinical research organisations to Greater Pacific Capital. Greater Pacific is a China and India-focused firm formed by three former Goldman Sachs partners. Benefiting from the growth of the pharmaceutical ...
In an embarrassing revelation, a landmark report from India's six science academies backing commercial planting of genetically modified (GM) brinjal, or eggplant, has been found to contain materials plagiarized from a pro-GM newsletter. GM critics, however, have pounced on the fiasco to ...
India has been the epicenter of high quality education since the ancient ages. The modern era depicts the same rosy picture as the country is now among famous education destinations of the world. When it comes to engineering education, India is abode ...
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