Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche inaugurated its Digital Center of Excellence in Pune, India. This strategic investment underscores Roche's commitment to establishing Pune as a hub for digital talent and thought leadership within the company. Over the past three years, Roche has been on a transformative journey in Pune, earning recognition...
Dr.Reddys, Prestige BioPharma to Supply Herceptin Biosimilar
Hyderabad, India-based Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd., and Prestige BioPharma Ltd., a Singapore-based firm, entered into an exclusive partnership for the supply and commercialization of the latter's proposed Trastuzumab biosimilar, in select countries. Trastuzumab (HD201) is a proposed biosimilar to Roche’s Herceptin and can be prescribed for the treatment of HER2...
Roche Seeks Collaborators for Evidence-Based Technology in India
Lara Bezerra, managing director (India) of Switzerland-based Roche, said that the company is looking for startups in India that will help to bring in to the country its evidence-based medicine through its proprietary technology Flatiron Health. In February, Roche acquired San Francisco, CA-based Flatiron Health, an oncology-specific electronic health record ...
Roche Diagnostics Expands to India's Smaller Cities
Roche Diagnostics is aiming at 15 percent share of India's in-vitro diagnostics market in the next two years said Shravan Subramanyam, managing director for Roche Diagnostics for India & Neighboring Markets. "We are also seeing consolidation of our customers, that is labs, and we would like to access tier II...
Biocon India Receives US FDA Approval for Biosimilar
India's Bangalore-based Biocon Ltd is the country's first company to have a "biosimilar" approved in the U.S. for Roche’s drug Trastuzumab, marketed as Herceptin, and used in treating certain breast and stomach cancers. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the company’s chairperson and managing director said, "This was the first biosimilar for Herceptin approved...
Global Healthcare Companies Scout for India Startups
Earlier this year, The India Export reported that Netherlands-based Philips was in the process of creating a venture fund to invest in Indian health-tech startups. And indeed, companies such as Roche, Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer and Medtronic among others, are also scanning India for startups that align with their portfolios....