In an exclusive interview with Rahul Koul of Indian Chemical News, Priyanka Chigurupati, Executive Director, Granules Pharmaceuticals Inc. USA shared details about the company's performance, R&D initiatives, Capex plan, CSR, and future outlook. Excerpts of the interview:
The Prime Minister announced that 21st June onwards, the Government of India will provide free vaccines to all Indian citizens above 18 years of age
These vaccine doses will be manufactured and stockpiled by the company from August-December 2021
Mucormycosis drug AmphoTLC will be imported from Taiwan by Stelis Biopharma Private Limited (Stelis), the biotech arm of Strides group, and will be launched and distributed in India immediately by Strides
Dr. Sharvil Patel cites the example of prescriptions being handed over to patients despite unavailability of enough stock of such medicines
The roller coaster ride during the pandemic has taken Indian pharmaceutical industry through a lot of bitter sweet experiences.
Cocktails of 2 mAbs based products are better equipped to deal with variants than single mAb based products which have a tendency of losing their efficacy with rapidly generating variants
BALflu is approved by DCGI for emergency use for the treatment of COVID-19
The product patent has been already filed under fast track approval
This test is designed for the qualitative detection of nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2 in the upper and lower respiratory specimens from individuals suspected of COVID-19
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