M.Sc

While there is a huge opportunity for pharmaceutical and Healthcare companies to sell their products in emerging markets due to rising incomes, higher incidence of chronic and lifestyle diseases, better insurance coverage, and better patent protection regimes for drugs, major roadblocks such as lack of mature distribution networks, lower price points due to generics competition, and counterfeiting are leaving even the large companies struggling to handle the challenges from some of these less sophisticated markets. Local business partnerships and better understanding and responsiveness to cultural differences will be very important in determining the success in emerging markets.

ASSOCHAM in its quest to resolve these issues and create a fine link through global regulators and industry experts, and bring first hand information at the disposal are some of the objectives aimed through ASSOCHAM’s unique endeavour “GCT 2013 ? Challenges & Opportunities”

Participation Details
Due to the support of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, ASSOCHAM wave off the Registration fees for GCT 2013; Generic Drugs, Clinical Trials & Technology Conference at Hotel Metropole, Ahmedabad on 30th April 2013.

MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories (Hilleman Labs), is a joint venture between Merck & Co., Inc. (which operates in India as MSD Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.) and Wellcome Trust (which is a UK based research charity).

Applications are to be submitted by eligible candidates as per prescribed format available on the website wbmsc.co.in, wbmsc.gov.in OR wbhealth.gov.in Details of job requirements and process of selection are also available on the above websites. All applications should be addressed to The Managing Director, West Bengal Medical Services Corporation Limited, Swasthya Bhawan Complex, GN-29, Sector – V, Salt Lake, Kolkata – 700 091.

National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) was founded by Sir Robert McCarrison in the year 1918 as ‘Beri-Beri’ Enquiry Unit in a single room laboratory at the Pasteur Institute, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. Within a short span of seven years, this unit blossomed into a "Deficiency Disease Enquiry" and later in 1928, emerged as full-fledged "Nutrition Research Laboratories" (NRL) with Dr. McCarrison as its first Director. It was shifted to Hyderabad in 1958.

Osmania University, established in 1918, is the seventh oldest in India, the third oldest in south India and the first to be established in the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad. Throughout its existence of over eight decades, it has shown remarkable progress and sustained an integrated development of all faculties. It has significantly contributed to the academic and economic development of not only the region but also of the Country.

The Coconut Research Station at Kasaragod in Kerala was initially established in 1916 by the then Government of Madras and subsequently it was taken over by the Indian Central Coconut Committee in 1948. Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI) was established in 1970 as one of the agricultural research institutes in the National Agricultural Research System (NARS) under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

The institute has evolved over the years into a multi-disciplinary research organization with stress on fundamental research in its pursuit of advancement of knowledge in Science and technology and at the same time developing highly competent and able scientific manpower for the country.