UBM India is India's leading exhibition organizer that provides the industry with platforms that bring together buyers and sellers from around the world, through a portfolio of exhibitions, content led conferences & seminars. UBM India hosts over 25 large scale exhibitions and 40 conferences across the country every year; thereby enabling trade across multiple industry verticals. A UBM Asia Company, UBM India has offices across Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai. UBM Asia is owned by UBM plc which is listed on the London Stock Exchange. UBM Asia is the leading exhibition organizer in Asia and the biggest commercial organizer in mainland China, India and Malaysia
Santhera Pharmaceuticals announces that the Office of Orphan Products Development (OOPD) at the US Food and Drug Admin-istration (FDA) has granted Santhera an award of USD 246,000 in support of its ongoing Phase I trial with omigapil (CALLISTO) in patients with congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD). Santhera is conducting CALLISTO in collaboration with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). The FDA awards grants through the Orphan Products Grants Program to sup-port the clinical development of products for use in rare diseases where no current therapy exists.