Novartis appoints Gilbert Ghostine Chairman-Designate of Sandoz Board of Directors

Ghostine has served as CEO of Geneva-based Firmenich, the world's largest privately owned perfume and taste company, since 2014.

Govt. appoints Rajeev Raghuvanshi new DGCI

National Health Authority facilitating Quick OPD registration in 365 hospitals

More than 5 lakh patients availed the benefit of queue-less OPD registration using this service

Moderna and Merck announce investigational personalized cancer vaccine mRNA-4157/V940

Designation based on positive data from Phase 2b KEYNOTE-942/mRNA-4157-P201 trial

Genomics, big data among key themes driving M&A activity in medical devices, says GlobalData

A total of 889 M&A deals were announced in the medical devices sector in 2022 worth $93 billion

Thyrocare adopts SigTuple’s AI100 to make quality diagnostics accessible

In a bid to better leverage its clinical expertise and drive quality reporting across its centres, Thyrocare has added SigTuple’s AI100 to automate the microscopic review in its laboratories

USFDA accepts biologics license application for Pfizer’s respiratory syncytial virus maternal vaccine candidate for priority review

This action follows the recent acceptance of the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for Pfizer’s RSV vaccine candidate by the European Medicines Agency

Mandaviya focuses on high value pharmaceuticals and high-end medical devices to reduce the import dependency

First release of Rs.166 crores incentives under PLI scheme for pharmaceuticals

Bluestem Biosciences files 24 patent applications

At commercial scale, Bluestem's patent pending technologies will reduce carbon emission by an estimated 75% or more and be cost-competitive with petroleum based chemicals

India achieves 15,000+ transplants in a year

There is a fast resurgence in the transplant activities post COVID