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

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

AbbVie to invest $195 million to expand API manufacturing in North Chicago

The new facility will enhance AbbVie’s chemical synthesis capacity to support domestic production of current and next-generation neuroscience, immunology, and oncology medicines

Apollo Hospitals Q1 FY26 PAT up 42% to Rs. 433 Cr

Apollo has also announced plans to add over 4,300 beds in the next five years with an investment of over Rs. 7,600 crore

Indoco Remedies receives final USFDA approval for rivaroxaban tablets

Rivaroxaban is used to treat venous thromboembolism

Boehringer’s lung cancer medicine gets FDA approval

FDA grants accelerated approval to zongertinib for HER2 TKD-Mutated Non-Squamous NSCLC

Gland Pharma gets approval for Norepinephrine Bitartrate in 5% Dextrose injection bags

The Product is bioequivalent and therapeutically equivalent to the reference listed drug (RLD), Norepinephrine Bitartratein 5% Dextrose of Baxter Healthcare Corp

Gland Pharma receives FDA approval for Cangrelor for Injection 50 mg/vial

The product is bioequivalent and therapeutically equivalent to the reference listed drug (RLD), KENGREAL of Chiesi USA