August 2022

Johnson & Johnson was founded more than 120 years ago on a revolutionary idea, Doctors and nurses should use sterile sutures, dressings and bandages to treat peoples wounds. Johnson & Johnson is ranked by Fortune Magazine as the 3rd most Admired Pharmaceutical Company in the world with an outstanding product range as well as an extensive research base with a number of life saving original research molecules. Our over 125,000 employees in 60 countries are united in a common mission: To help people everywhere live longer, healthier, happier lives.

After a journey of growth spanning 27 years as Cadila Healthcare Ltd. and the Zydus Group, we have evolved and transformed ourselves in response to the changing times. Our legacy of over 70 years in healthcare and being dedicated to life in all its dimensions is reaffirmed in our new mission, vision and purpose. Unifying ourselves under the Zydus name, Cadila Healthcare Ltd., is renamed as Zydus Lifesciences Ltd.

Cipla, as an organisation has been built brick-by-brick on the foundation of care. Caring For Life has always been and continues to remain, our guiding purpose. Driven by the same purpose, we have extended our presence to 80+ countries providing over 1,500 products across various therapeutic categories in 50+ dosage forms. To make healthcare more affordable globally, we are deepening our presence in the key markets of India, South Africa, the U.S. among other economies of the emerging world.

For more than 60 years, Ipca has been a crucial healthcare partner in over 120 countries across the 6 continents. We are a fully-integrated pharmaceutical company that manufactures over 350 formulations and 80 APIs for various therapeutic segments.  Today, we are one of the world’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of over a dozen APIs. These are produced from scratch at fully-automated manufacturing facilities, approved by the world’s most discerning drug regulatory authorities like UK-MHRA, EDQM-Europe, and WHO-Geneva, among others.

VKT Pharma is a Quality driven pharmaceutical company with vertically integrated company spanning across entire pharmaceutical value chain from product development to delivery, with established credentials in Research & Development, Manufacturing and Marketing of Solid Dosage Forms with special focus on Tablets, Capsules & Ready to Fill Immediate or Modified release Pellets for a wide range of generic drug formulations in various Therapeutic segments.

Global pharma major Lupin Limited (Lupin) has received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA), Formoterol Fumarate Inhalation Solution.

Micro Labs, makers of Dolo 650, has said that these are baseless allegation over Rs. 1000 crore freebies to doctors. FMRAI - a body of medical representatives alleged that the pharma company that makes Dolo spent Rs 1,000 crores in the form of freebies to doctors as incentives for them to prescribe the drug, and the matter subsequently came under the scanner of the Supreme Court.

Indian pharmaceutical sector will log a moderate revenue growth of 7-9 percentage (pc) this fiscal, similar to the last fiscal, due to headwinds in export sales in the regulated markets and high-base effect in the domestic formulations business, reported by CRISIL which studied 184 drug makers that account for 55 pc of the Rs 3.4 lakh crore-a-year sector revenue.

Novel discovery has revealed how the tau protein, a critical element in the formation of Alzheimers disease, is also involved in normal learning processes in the healthy brain, potentially providing a focal point for future drug therapies.

Employing a sensitive method named proximity labelling, the team aimed to identify all proteins that tau comes in contact with within brain cells, labelling and identifying the whole collection of interacting proteins as they went.