Indian Biotech Firms Emerging as major global players: Canadian resesarch

Last updated on: April 14, 2007 at 6:14 pm by Desh Kapoor

Indian Biotech Firms Emerging as major global players: Canadian resesarch 2007-04-14T18:14:32-05:00 Desh Kapoor

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Well the Indian biotech firms seem to be surging ahead too.. .so its not just the IT folks but the biotech ones as well who are doing well! The only caveat here – when it comes to biotech is that since these firms cater mainly to the West.. they may be gearing themselves up to diseases that are more prevalent in West.. leaving the large multitude of Indian population without support! Market and Capitalism is a cruel tool… for people without money!

India’s health biotech firms are emerging as a major global player, with growing means and know-how to produce innovative as well as generic drugs and vaccines at costs small relative to those of giant Western firms, according to ground-breaking Canadian research published April 9.

The budding of an innovative Indian biotech sector holds major implications for the global industry and for improving both health and prosperity in the developing world.

“India is innovating its way out of poverty,” says co-author Peter A. Singer, MD, of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health (University Health Network and University of Toronto). “With a massive and increasingly well-educated workforce, India is poised to revolutionize biotechnology just as it did the information technology industry.

“India’s biotech sector is like a baby elephant – when it matures, it will occupy a lot of space. The biotech industry is globalizing rapidly and the impact of India’s market entry and contribution to improving world health is potentially huge.”

However, Singer and co-authors Abdallah S. Daar, MD, Sarah E. Frew, PhD, Monali Ray, Rahim Rezaie and Stephen M. Sammut, MBA, warn that the allure of world market profits may divert much needed Indian research attention away from treatments for specific developing country illnesses, unlikely to be created by Western-based firms. “India needs to take steps to avert this outcome,” they say.

Published April 9 by Nature Biotechnology, the authors say their study of 21 home-grown firms sheds unprecedented public light on India’s private sector biotech efforts and reports “a sector preparing not only for future growth but also, in some cases, for developing innovative products for global markets.”

It is the first known “detailed, independent, publicly available research” revealing product development capabilities and strategies used by India’s private firms to survive and grow amid developing country challenges.

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