From Policy to Practice: How India’s Pharmaceutical Industry is Being Shaped by the PLI Scheme – by Vikram Aditya Sehgal, Director – Finance, Centrient India

The PLI scheme focuses on incentivizing a strategic shift towards high-value, innovative products such as biologics, complex generics, and specialty formulations

Shanmuga Hospital commissions advanced PH impedance and manometry system

This system enables comprehensive diagnosis of both acid and non-acid reflux, along with esophageal motility disorders.

FDA grants breakthrough therapy designation to Ifinatamab Deruxtecan for lung cancer patients

Fourteenth breakthrough therapy designation granted by FDA across the oncology portfolio of Daiichi Sankyo

Xspray Pharma licenses patent rights to Handa Therapeutics, secures royalty agreement

Its lead product, Dasynoc, is awaiting FDA approval with a PDUFA date of October 7, 2025

AN2 Therapeutics begins first-in-human trial of oral AN2-502998 for chagas disease

Phase 1 dosing is expected to finish by the end of 2025

Enable injections receives enFuse system approval in Brazil and UK registration

QMS Medical Allied Services reports 31.65% rise in Q1 FY26 PAT to Rs. 3.15 Cr

The company’s acquisition of a 51 per cent stake in Saarathi Healthcare earlier this financial year boosted growth

UFlex posts Q1 FY26 PAT at Rs. 58 Cr

The company’s virgin PET chips plant in Egypt, commissioned in Q4 FY25, achieved 74.8 per cent capacity utilization in its first full quarter. In India, the Panipat facility operated at 96.6 per cent utilization

Anthem Biosciences posts Q1 FY26 PAT at Rs. 135.8 Cr

The CRDMO segment contributed Rs. 452.7 crore, recording a robust 70.5 per cent YoY increase

Zydus’ SEZ II, Ahmedabad plant clears USFDA inspection with nil observations

The inspection concluded with NIL observations