PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES: WHAT NEXT?
About Author:
Dr. Amit Gangwal
Pharmacy college as a Lecture,
Smriti college of pharmaceutical education, Indore
gangwal.amit@gmail.com
The pharmaceutical industries world over, are in a period of crisis due to the poor number of approved drug molecules relative to the high levels of R&D investment. The drug industry is facing major scientific and strategic challenges. Conversion of genomics knowledge into new molecules seems to be unimpressive and futile. Moreover competition from generic giants is giving tough competitions to established products. Indian companies are no exception; rather, hardly any molecule has been delivered by Indian companies since time immemorial (readers are kindly requested to correct/update me, if I am not acknowledging some discovered molecule).