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by Sonia Goel and Jasina Arora SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana In the verge of New Year celebrations of 2020 a news spread like biological bombshell in the medical college of China about the attack of Corona virus. It was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China and spreading from person-to-person in different parts of that country initially. World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a global emergence threat as the virus is affecting different parts of the world. Coronavirus was first isolated in 1937 from an infectious bronchitis virus in birds that has the ability to seriously devastate poultry stocks,…

by Dr Seema Pavgi Upadhye Padma Awards – one of the highest civilian Awards of India, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year. This year no…

Prof Dr M K Bhan passed away on 26th January 2020 at the age of 73 only, which shocked the people of biotech and medical sciences field as it was a great loss to the nation. For his extraordinary work(s) he was awarded Padma Bhushan from Govt. of India and many several other notable national and international awards. Another great administrator of his time, Prof Sudhir Kumar Sopory said, “A great scientific mind, able administrator, institution builder and a wonderful human being. Being classmate since college days, I have known him for over 50 years and is a great personal…

21 Jan 2020 The XVII Convention of the Society was held as International Conference on New Horizons in Biotechnology organized by the CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Trivandrum during November 20-24, 2019. Drs K Madhavan Nampoothiri, Rajeev K Sukumaran and P Binod were its main organizers. NHBT-2019, the international conference on New Horizons in Biotechnology was jointly organized by the Biotech Research Society, India (BRSI) and CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Trivandrum during November 20-24, 2019. This was 16th Annual Convention of the BRSI. The venue for the event was Hotel Residency Tower, Press Road, Trivandrum.…

The International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) confers distinguished awards to scientists and clinicians working in clinical chemistry, laboratory medicine and related disciplines. These triennial awards are the highest honor conferred by the Federation and bestowed to scientists and researchers for their outstanding achievements. This worldwide recognition is to publicize their exceptional research work and highlight other contributions that have improved healthcare and made advancements in clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine. This year these distinguished awards will be conferred during the World Lab Congress in Seoul, South Korea, 24-28 May 2020. For more details kindly refer to: …

21 Jan 2020 BioAsia, the flagship event of Indian Biotech Industry is coming up in its annual meeting again in 2020 in Hyderabad from 17-19 February 2020. The event is organized by FABA and Hosted by Govt of Telangana and many big organizations are supporting this cause of bringing together many great leaders from both academia and industry. For More information please visit website: http://2020.bioasia.in/ For any support/collaboration opportunities, you may also contact us at biotechexpressindia@gmail.com

1 a-IDEA, Centre For Agri Innovation 2 VentureStudio 3 Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone Limited   AMTZ 4 Association for Bio-inspired Leaders and Entrepreneurs (Sastra TBI) 5 NCL-IIT (BHU)Incubation Center 6 BioNEST BITS BIRAC 7 Bio-incubation at C-CAMP 8 Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre 9 BBB – BSC BioNEST Bio-Incubator/Regional Center for Biotechnology 10 Biotech Park Lucknow 11 Bio360 – Life Science Park, 12 Bio Pharma-IT Park 13 Bioriidl 14 Clean Energy International Incubation Center 15 Crescent Innovation and Incubation Council 16 CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research 17 Delhi Pharmaceutical Science Research University 18 ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT CENTER 19 FITT 20 Golden Jubilee Women…

Here, Biotech Express have compiled a list which takes into consideration the size, years of operation, whether Indian or Foreign etc. and excludes startups and strike off companies. To get complete list with the business and other information like products, location, key business people etc. or if you want to suggest any company then you may kindly contact us. The companies in alphabetical order are as follows: S.No. NAME Country of Origin 1 Abbott India MNC 2 Alvogen’s sister company Alvotech MNC 3 Amgen India MNC 4 AstraZeneca MNC 5 Biocad MNC 6 Boehringer Ingelheim MNC 7 Bristol-Myers Squibb MNC…

To supplement the current and future demand of biotherapeutics in dealing with snakebites, the Sehrawat lab at IISER Mohali has generated and selected a less immunogenic but potent anti-Russell Viper Venom single domain antibody from an in-house constructed phage display library of unique antibody derivative also known as Variable region of Heavy chain of Heavy chain antibody (VHH). The selected binder exhibited superior biological, biochemical and biophysical properties. The binder proved valuable in neutralising the toxicity caused by Russell viper venom in acellular and cellular assays as well as in experimentally intoxicated animals. Future goal of the groups is to…