India’s World-Class Biological Drugs Testing Center Sits Largely Unused
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
India's government built a set of world-class laboratories to serve as the central source for testing biotech drugs, but although it has had labs completed and opened since 2000, it has tested few drugs. The National Institute of Biologicals was ordered built in the early nineties and declared by law to serve as the testing center at the beginning of a biologicals wave. Since then, 350 biological drugs have entered the market, but few were tested at the lab, even though the huge facility was completed last year. Intended to house 85 scientists and 115 technicians, the NIB today is staffed by only nine scientists and a dozen or so technicians. (Click here for more