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Recent and past Businessworld articles

 
2007
 
February 12, 2007
  The Patent Attack
 

India’s patent law is under the scanner after Novartis challenged it in court and the Mashelkar Committee found fault with it. But the domestic drugs industry is fighting back with global support

 
January 15, 2007
  The Makeover
 

Jubilant Biosys is trying to transform itself into a drug discovery services company, while strengthening its roots in bioinformatics

 
January 08, 2007
  Dark Horses
 

Ratan Tata and Big Pharma Merck have bet early on these men. Now Advinus Therapeutics, their brainchild, has to deliver

 
2006
 
December 18, 2006
  Healthcare: The Corporate Push
 

Following pioneer Apollo, now Max, Fortis and Wockhardt are adding a new dimension to the private hospital industry

 
December 04, 2006
  Bucking the Trend
  Indian pharma outsourcing companies are buying up high cost operations in the West. Is this a sound strategy?
 
November 20, 2006
  The New Drug Chain
  Indian and small western companies are together creating a drug discovery ecosystem that can challenge the might of the Big Pharma one day
 
September 11, 2006
  The Matrix Revolution
  In 2000, N. Prasad bought a company for Rs 3 crore. In August 2006, he sold it for a valuation of Rs 6,210 crore
 
July 31, 2006
  Generics Under Pressure
  Price wars and competition are making life tougher for Indian generic firms
 
July 17, 2006
  Biogenerics
  Indian Pharma’s Big Opportunity
 
June 19, 2006
  Made in India Molecules
  Original drugs from Indian pharma are getting ready to hit the market
 
May 15, 2006
  Cracking the Generic Code
  Ranbaxy and Dr. Reddy’s are getting their strategy right to capture the $50-billion US generic market
 
April 03, 2006
  Dr Reddy's Polypill: Blockbuster or Dud?
  Hyderabad-based company is racing to become the first pharma company in the world to introduce the controversial multiple-product pill for heart ailments
 
March 20, 2006
  Eurocentric!
  Dr Reddy's Labs has firmed up its European foray with the purchase of German generic company betapharm for $570 million
 
February 06, 2006
  Basking in the Rising Sun
  Call him Mr Conservative or Mr Pragmatist, chairman Dilip Shangvi's strategy has made Sun Pharma the shining star in the industry. But can he sustain the growth tempo?
 
January 23, 2006
  On the Discovery Trail
  G.V. Sanjay Reddy and D.S. Brar of GVK Biosciences are among the first to tap the hot opportunity in drug discovery services
 
  2005
   
December 12, 2005
  Tapping the Biotech Opportunity
  The bio-pharma industry in the West is looking for contract manufacturers in Asia. Is India ready?
 
December 12, 2005
  Betapharm-Stretch Target for Indian Majors
  The $200-million German copycat drug maker has put its controlling stake on the block. Four Indian companies are in the race to pick it up
 
December 05, 2005
  SciTech Patent: Redefining Offshoring
  With an exclusive focus on the patent analysis market, the Hyderabad-based company is raking in the greenbacks
 
November 28, 2005
  The Scramble for Tamiflu
  Indian companies are ready with a generic version of the drug that fights the deadly bird flu virus. Will they take on the MNCs?
 
November 28, 2005
  'We will Oppose the Patent for Tamiflu'
  Yusuf K. Hamied, chairman and managing director, Cipla
 
November 28, 2005
  'We are Looking at the Global Market'
  Ramesh L. Adige, director (corporate affairs), Ranbaxy
 
November 14, 2005
  Glenmark: Leveraging Drug Discovery
  The Indian pharma firm's new drug research is generating cash and bankrolling other growth engines. Is there great risk on the path?
 
October 31, 2005
  Buy and Fortify
  The Escorts deal has made Fortis India's No.2 corporate hospital. What next?
 
October 17, 2005
  Life Sciences: String Theory
  Nadathur Holdings is investing in a string of companies operating along the pharma value chain, starting from discovery.
 
October 17, 2005
  Clinical Research-The Trials by Numbers
  The eight-year-old clinical research outsourcing business in India is still undersized at less than $100 million, according to Proximare, a US consultancy and advisory services company
 
October 10, 2005
  Neglected Diseases: Vital Signs
  Can vaccines and drugs for diseases like malaria and tuberculosis become the next profit-spinners for Indian pharma?
 
October 10, 2005
  Interview, "Indian generics think we want to carve up more of a fixed pie"
  Harvey Bale, director-general of the Geneva-based International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA)
 
July 18, 2005
  Quality Check-up
  Six Indian hospitals are rushing to get the gold seal of quality. Will that be enough to make a mark in the global health travel market?
 
May 30, 2005
  Lab's Labour
  Lack of trained researchers may thwart India's clinical research opportunity. But precious little is being done about it
 
May 30, 2005
  Interview / Dennis Gillings 'Clinical Research is not Less Productive, the Whole System is'
 

Dennis Gillings, founder and chairman of Quintiles Transnational-now the largest clinical research organisation in the world-on his company and the industry

 
May 23, 2005
  Teva-Ready to Spring
  The world's second largest generics firm is on the prowl. In its sights is an Indian drug major. An inside track of the hunt
 
  2004
   
September 20, 2004
  Price Goes Before a Fall
  Dodgy pricing has put Indian pharma on a collision course with Paswan
 
December 29, 2004
  The Matrix Evolution
 
November 01, 2004
  Is the Pharma Dream Run Over?
  A series of events threaten to scuttle Indian pharma majors' well-laid plans for the US generics market
 
August 16, 2004
  The Battle for Delhi
  Four years after its grand plans for Delhi, Fortis has had a reality check. Can Shivinder Mohan's new battle plan win the market?
 
July 19, 2004
  Wockhardt's Human Insulin
  Notching up gains in the Rs 211-crore human insulin market is proving to be an uphill battle for the Indian drug maker
 
July 12, 2004
  Morale Booster, Yes; Profit Booster, No
  The recently-published clinical study of ragaglitazar is a tremendous psychological boost to the drug discovery programme of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
 
July 12, 2004
  Small Experiments = Giant Leaps
  Even as the Indian biotech sector goes big time, Sanmar goes slow and steady to win the all important race
 
July 12, 2004
  Pathology Labs: Looking for Growth Options
  Six players have emerged clear winners from the first wave of corporatisation. But starved of options in an increasingly unruly market, they are again on the lookout for ways to grow
 
June 28, 2004
  What's the Big Deal?
  Most overseas acquisitions by Indian pharma firms amount to small change from a global perspective. Shouldn't it be betting bigger?
 
June 14, 2004
  Prospect Next
  A crop of Indian companies is readily converting the opportunity presented by outsourced work in pharma. A look at the different segments in which the prospects lie
 
June 14, 2004
  "India May Become our Biggest Development Centre"
  Christian Seiwald, CEO, Sandoz GmbH, on issues ranging from India's attractiveness to Sandoz to the future of the generics opportunity in the West
 
May 24, 2004
  The $20 Billion Pills
  A few Indian generics makers want a swipe at the western statin market. Will they succeed?
 
March 15, 2004
  Sunny Side Up
  Dilip Shanghvi's global plans for Sun Pharma hit an unexpected speedbreaker in Caraco. But the entrepreneur appears to have emerged stronger from the crisis
 
  2003
   
December 22, 2003
  The Health Travellers
  The market is $40 billion and counting. It is growing at 20% every year. But how does one tap the opportunity?
 
December 22, 2003
  Gearing up for the Healthcare Opportunity
  A few Indian private hospitals are trying to attract medical travellers on their own
 
  September 29, 2003
Brar's Ranbaxy
  One man's 10-year journey in search of the holy grail: an Indian multinational. What he found, how, and what he intends to do now
 
   
 
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