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There are major regulatory lapses in the manufacturing of similar biologics in India. The use of scientific audits could strengthen the regulatory system and improve the provision of high quality biosimilars in the country, according to a recent opinion piece [1] by Dr GR Soni, which was published in GaBI Journal.

Congress is starting to consider ways to address the budget cap problem that hangs over the entire FY 21 appropriations process for non-defense discretionary (NDD) programs. Last year, Congress broke a long-running stalemate by agreeing to budget caps for FY 20 and FY 21. They decided to front-load the increases, making spending decisions (relatively) easier […]

Posted by Roger Bate The Economic Times of India covered our new paper today (see here). The paper published by the National bureau of Economic Research and not AEI as claimed by the Economic Times (see here), shows that Indian firms send their worst quality medicines to Africa. It is a shame that Indian Industry hack DG Shah continues to trot out the same arguments attacking us rather than addressing the paper’s findings. For example, he asks why did it take so long to publish a study [...]

Posted by Roger Bate (on behalf of the authors of the paper) India’s pharmaceutical industry wants its government to sue us because of our “smear campaign” against it (Click here) and if today’s media in India are correct, India’s government is considering it (Click here). This so-called campaign is actually an academic study which identifies uncomfortable data that some Indian companies, or their distributors, seem to be sending inferior medicines to Africa (s [...]

Posted by Roger Bate India’s government is contemplating suing my coauthors and I for defamation for some research we published last month. In our National Bureau of Economic Research working paper on the quality of Indian medicines exported to Africa we concluded that poorer quality products were intentionally being sent to Africa because of the continents generally weak oversight of drug quality. Litigation is rarely an effective method of finding the truth, more often a process to li [...]

There has been a surge in demand for gender identity services in the UK over the past five years. Although the current role of pharmacists is limited, their potential contribution within a multidisciplinary team supporting transgender patients is beginning to emerge.

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March 30, 2020 – In addition to providing millions of Americans and many industries with financial support during the coronavirus outbreak, the emergency relief bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on Friday accrues additional funding for the Food and Drug Administration’s coronavirus efforts and makes important changes to how […]

Come on in, the water’s warm. After billions already raised by VC firms since the advent of the pandemic for life science companies, Oberland Capital has tossed more than $1 billion into the pot.

While dietary supplement sales have surged in recent months, the extent of the economic damage caused by the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 could lead to some very tough quarters as families and businesses start to run out of money.

Modern innovation typically occurs one step-improvement at a time. Some clients initially question whether their new application of an existing technology is patentable. Usually, the answer is ‘yes.’ Under U.S. law (and most other jurisdictions), an innovation to an existing technology is patentable so long as at least one claim limitation is novel and non-obvious....… Continue Reading

Until millions of Americans can be tested weekly for coronavirus, states will walk blindly into restarts. But NIH director has a plan to ramp up.

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Prof Andrew Cunningham from the Zoological Society of London said, “The emergence of COVID-19 was not only predictable, but it was also predicted (in the sense that) there would be another viral emergence from wildlife that would be a public health threat.”

The company is trying to get several of the affected employees placed in other organisations.

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Paytm said this will widen the base of employees having company shares.

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Vikram Nirula, who joined in 2018 as managing director, will soon be leaving the company.

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The layoffs will take place from its cloud kitchens across nearly ten Tier 1 and 2 cities.

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Many of these local delivery apps were started after the lockdown by Gen-Z founders.

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Employees who earn less than Rs 500,000 per annum will not be affected by the cuts.

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Tiger Global-backed Games24X7 has appointed Rahul Tewari as its first CFO.

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SoftBank Vision Fund has started to rope in specialists to lead its efforts in China as early as 2018.

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Over the past month, Udaan has been facing a drop in business under its non-essential categories.

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The COVID-19 crisis has impacted close to 60% of the total contractual staff workforce in India.

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Pham's departure is coming at a crucial time for Uber as stay-at-home orders around the world severely curtail demand for its services.

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The move comes as the online platform’s business has shifted to focus more on peddling intellectual property.

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The pay cuts were cited in a company note to employees dated April 29.

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Flynote has only ₹2 crore left in the banks of the ₹14 crore raised last year.

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Flipkart Group CFO Emily McNeal has quit to pursue a career opportunity outside the Walmart Group.

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The US-based company is said to have an employee base of over 2,000 people in India.

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Jaimini had co-founded Swiggy along with Sriharsha Majety and Nandan Reddy in 2014.

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Stormbreaker Venture, an edtech accelerator, is a common investor in both the companies.

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It plans to use the funds to hire new talent, develop its product and technology further and scale up its lending volumes.

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The US-based venture capital firm routed the investment through its $60 million fund.

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The company is further looking to raise Rs 250 crore in the next few quarters. 

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The funding also saw the participation of Omidyar Network, Shunwei Capital, BCCL, and Nexus Venture Partners.

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Existing investors Matrix Partners India, Stellaris Venture Partners, and Alteria Capital also participated.

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Cisco, Intel and JioNext will work with the YourNest team to help assess and shortlist applicants.

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The funding will be used to spruce up technology and expand product offerings.

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Dakota will also establish “Myanmar’s first-ever cyber training centre."

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The financing will help Varthana reach more schools by meeting its need for longer-term capital.

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Exfinity Ventures and IAN Fund led the funding in Vernacular.ai.

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