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Key people Soshil Kumar (Executive Chairman of the Board, Ravinder Jain (Managing Director), Dr. Rajesh Jain (Joint Managing Director), Sandeep Jain (Joint Managing Director) Stock price PANACEABIO (NSE) ₹ 155.80 -0.85 (-0.54%)21 Mar, 3:30 PM IST - Disclaimer Subsidiaries Rees Investments Limited |
Watch dr rajesh jain jmd panacea biotec on dated september 11 2012
Panacea Drugs Pvt. Ltd. was set up in the year 1984 and got listed in 1995 as Panacea Biotec Ltd. Panacea Biotec is an Indian research based pharmaceutical and health management company involved in research, manufacturing, and marketing of pharmaceutical formulations, vaccines, and natural products. It is one of the three largest biotech companies in India. In August 2011 several of its hepatitis vaccines were removed from the list of prequalified vaccines by the World Health Organization because of quality management issues, but the issues were resolved by early 2012.
Contents
- Watch dr rajesh jain jmd panacea biotec on dated september 11 2012
- History
- Nephrology
- Gastroenterology and orthopedic
- Respiratory
- Oncology
- Value India Healthcare
- References
Panacea Biotec has five research centres across India that specialize in the fields of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, natural products and biopharmaceutics.
Watch dr rajesh jain jmd panacea biotec on dated september 11 2012
History
Panacea Biotec claims to be the largest vaccine manufacturing company in India. Panacea Biotec has introduced the next generation inactivated polio vaccine (eIPV) via a collaboration with the Netherland Vaccine Institute. This vaccine has found extensive usage in India for more than three years now and is registered in Bangladesh. IPV is also in an advanced stage of registration in 10 countries worldwide, with the target of being in more than 30 countries in a couple of years, and has been put up for WHO prequalification, which is expected soon.
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Nephrology
Critical care, a super speciality SBU of the company, is focused on nephrology therapy in the highly specialized organ transplantation and dialysis management segments. It offers a range of pre-transplant and post-transplant therapies.
Gastroenterology and orthopedic
Procare SBU of the company promotes brands with special focus on orthopedicians, surgeons, dentists, ENT specialists and gastroenterologists, along with consulting physicians and general physicians.
Respiratory
Growcare is the respiratory and pediatric business of Panacea Biotec. This business was carved out of the existing business of Panacea Biotec as part of the long term strategy to enter the high growth Respiratory Therapy. Growcare is a Rs.230 million business with a total field strength of around 350 people. It serves more than 50,000 doctors across the country, including specialists such as chest physicians, consulting physicians, pediatricians and general physicians. 26 different SKUs are marketed with a presence in multiple therapy areas.
Oncology
Panacea Biotec has plans to foray into the oncology segment to provide treatment for cancer, viz, breast cancer, brain tumor, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer and colorectal cancer. 'Oncotrust' would be the new strategic business unit (SBU) with a total strength of around 50 sales specialists on oncology who would be responsible for marketing these drugs. The aim is to register sales volumes of Rs. 150-200 million in the oncology chemotherapy segment in the next three years. The company feels that it would be able to launch a novel drug delivery based anti-cancer drug in the next two or three years.
Value India Healthcare
Some of the brands include TwoWks, a patented product to treat first and second degree piles, Combipunch, a first time in India, DCGI approved formulation for allergic rhinitis, and others.
VIH aims to provide a complete basket of products which a general practitioner needs on a daily basis. The value range of antibiotics, ValueCef, ValueOrni and others; the pain range like Instanim and Nowaste Para; and the respiratory range of KofZero and KoldZero are all steadily gaining the mindshare of the doctor.
ValueIndia currently operates in the rest of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh regions, with plans for expansion to other states shortly.