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Panacea Biotec
is India’s highly
progressive
research based health management company involved in
research, manufacturing and marketing of branded
pharmaceutical formulations, vaccines and natural products.
The product portfolio includes highly innovative
prescription products in important therapeutic areas like
pain management, diabetes & cardiovascular management, renal
disease management, osteoporosis management,
anti-tubercular, gastro-intestinal care products and
vaccines. The
flagship
brands of the company-
Willgo for pain
management;
Glizid & Glizid-M for
diabetes;
Panimun Bioral & Mycept
for kidney transplant
occupy leadership positions
in their therapeutic segments.
This is in persuit of
marketing strategies to build brands and drive the growth of
the company.
The vaccines portfolio consists of oral
polio vaccines (type I and type III),
Enivac-HB
(Hepatitis B vaccine),
Enivac-HB Safsy,
Ecovac-4
(DTwP+Hep B),
Easyfour
(DTwP+Hib),
Easyfive
(DTwP+Hep B+Hib). Vaccines in the offing are- Anthrax,
Dengue, Japanese encephalitis and several others. Panacea
Biotec has earned the distinction of being a
WHO pre-qualified
supplier of oral polio and Hepatitis-B vaccines and are in
the process of obtaining similar pre-qualifications for
other vaccines.
Panacea Biotec is
contributing in disease prevention and reducing the child
mortality.
Ardent Research and Development efforts
have always been a great strength of
Panacea Biotec.
The main research areas are New Chemical Entities
(NCE), New Biological Entities (NBE)
Novel Drug Delivery System (NDDS) based pharmaceutical
formulations, Novel peptides & human monoclonal antibodies
and Vaccine development. The company has developed
four
distinguished, ultra modern, state-of-art R&D centers
in different locations, having internal capabilities for
constant research, with over 200 highly professional and
skilled scientists engaged in various aspects of research.
Focused research efforts have led to
grant of worldwide product
patents valid in over 60 countries for Panacea Biotec.
As on March, 2007,
the company had filed
490
patent applications in various parts of the world including
India. Of these, 163
have been granted patent and others are under various stages
of examination or publication by the patent authorities.
Some of these countries are USA, U.K., France, Germany,
Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Switzerland, The
Netherlands, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, Zimbabwe,
Australia, South Africa, Japan, Russia, Canada, Ukraine,
Korea and China,.
The exclusive products based on
patented Drug Delivery System include
Panimun Bioral
(Cyclosporine),
Willgo,
ThankGod
(for comprehensive management of haemorrohoids),
Xeed
(anti-tubercular FDC with innovative Drug Delivery for
optimum bioavailability of Rifampicin),
Nimulid Safeinject,
Nimulid MD,
Nimulid
Transgel.
Commencing
fiscal 2008, the company plans
for international marketing
of novel
NDDS based pharmaceutical formulation products to the
international markets, like USA, U.K., Germany, France,
Latin
American countries and
Italy through marketing collaborations and are on the look
out for partners for distribution & marketing.
Panacea Biotec is the
third largest
biotechnology company (as per ABLE Survey, 2006), as well as
among the top 50 pharmaceutical companies (as per ORG IMS
July 2006) of India. To tap newer opportunities, Panacea
Biotec has organized its formulation marketing into four
SBUs - PRO, Diacar, GROW and Critical Care, which enables it
to respond to changes in the industry and marketplace. The
vaccines are marketed through Chiron Panacea Vaccines, a
50:50 joint venture with Novartis Vaccines, U.K
Panacea
Biotec has identified brand building in exports as its
thrust area and it has significant presence in the global
markets including the CIS, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
The company is actively exploring opportunities for
launching as well as licensing out some of our patented
products for manufacture/marketing in developed countries in
Europe, North America and
Latin America.
Panacea Biotec has significant
collaborations and
joint ventures with
leading national and international research organizations
and corporations. With
Cambridge Biostability
Ltd., U.K., Panacea
Biotec has entered into strategic collaboration for
developing thermo stable vaccines; with
National Institute of
Immunology, India for
Japanese Encephalitis
candidate vaccine,
Biotech
Consortium India Ltd.
for the development, manufacture and marketing of
Anthrax vaccine,
worldwide. With
National Institute of
Health, USA, Panacea
Biotec has entered into an in-licensing arrangement for use
of a peptide based product for generation of hair follicles
and hair growth. Panacea Biotec has also collaborated with
Netherlands
Vaccine Institute for
Inactivated Polio Vaccine;
NRDC-
India for Foot & Mouth Disease vaccine for veterinary use
and Bio
Farma-Indonesia for
Measles vaccine.
The company has ultra
modern, state-of-art
production
facilities
at Baddi (Himachal Pradesh), Larlu (Punjab) & Delhi for
manufacturing tablets, capsules (including soft gelatin),
ointments (transgel
formulation)
liquids, herbal formulations and vaccines. The facilities
are WHO cGMP
compliant.
Panacea
Biotec has established a countrywide sales and marketing
network in India through a
vibrant
sales
force of more than 1,000 professionally trained and highly
motivated marketing and sales professionals and
efficient logistic
network of
23 sales depots/carrying and forwarding agents all over
India to make its
products available at all places and at all times. |