Column - PULSE
“PULSE” - Presenting Unique Life Science Entrepreneur The India pharma industry is adapting novel technologies and medicinal practices steadily. Pharma and Lifesciences, while a critical pillar of any economy, is a highly competitive and regulated sector. The Pharma and Lifesciences segment has witnessed a strong traction, with a large number of startups entering this domain. Dr Sreedhara R Voleti, CEO, ASPIRE-BioNEST will be curating a new column on Pharma and Lifesciences start-ups. Titled “PULSE” - Presenting Unique Life Science Entrepreneur, the column every month will feature a Unique Life Science Entrepreneur. On the prime edition of this column, Dr. Voleti will be introducing the readers to Dr. Subhadra Dravida, MD & CEO, TRANSCELLBIO and a group of companies under it. For more information about ASPIRE-BioNEST: http://bionest.uohyd.ac.in
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Dr. Sreedhara R Voleti CEO ASPIRE-BioNEST
ntrepreneurship, especially in healthcare is a long-drawn challenge for variety of reasons. Let them be discovery of pharmaceutical drugs, biologicals, biosimilars/betters, or tools like prototypes for instruments, microfluidics, wearables, and healthcare diagnostics viz. kits, standards etc. all related to healthcare are the opportunities one can undertake. Past decade, in all, excepting discovery of new drugs of chemicals or biological nature, India has been raising its entrepreneurial bar in innovations with the governmental, venture, and capital funding support. According to DBT’s BIRAC and other funding agencies for science and technology of Govt. of India, an unprecedented number of startups in life sciences have been funded – albeit, the total funding done is small when compared to the rest of the developed world. Focusing on the opportunities available, many startup innovators have jumped the entrepreneurial band-wagon “to-make-a-difference” than continuing the conventional journey of job-searching in academia or industry. In-order to make a mark of their own, the hunt for innovating novel products by India, for India, made in India has started and mushrooming quickly for bringing self-goals with vision and mission to help society – waking the innovation gene of society becoming an entrepreneurial society, for generations to come. The unprecedented current generation of entrepreneurs and innovators, especially in life sciences, brings an awe for the job-seekers.
aiming to bring useful outcomes to society. Hoping the tribe-culture of entrepreneurship grows over-the-period of sustained efforts - leading India to become a knowledge-based economy with a valuation that each entrepreneur/startup innovator brings to society.
This change now has led the society to believe not just “Success is not just a measure of reaching valuable product after efforts”, but the number of sustained efforts made by numerous players
In this edition we bring forth the journey of Dr. Subhadra Dravida, the Founder & CEO, TRANSCELLBIO and how she and her team is transforming the space of stem cell research and applications.
Pharma Bio World
“Untiring Entrepreneurs Unlocking the Innovation Potential in Healthcare”, is a new series that PharmaBio World is bringing to its audience, viewers, and members - through interviews/article format, with a focus on divulging cutting edge technologies made through research outcomes with translatable, scalable, and commercialisable potential by various startup innovators. A monthly report on key differentiating innovative entrepreneurship with a USP focusing on knowledge-enhancement leading to an entrepreneurial economy will be brought into limelight by the magazine. PharmaBio World brings new dimension to its audience, the feel of PULSE that presents a narrative with entrepreneurs in life sciences, especially wanted to make a difference in bringing wishful thinking into reality with unique scientific proposition for society. A stimulating discussion with Dr. Bindu Balan, a long-standing friend of Dr. Voleti, brings life to the series, PULSE! Watch this space for exciting information of “knowledge-for-society” in healthcare!
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