Serum Institute is working on an mpox vaccine while other Indian firms are weighing options after the WHO sounded an alert and a new case was reported in neighboring Pakistan. Scrip looks at factors that could favor development and/or manufacture of an mpox vaccine at Indian majors.

Leaders of biopharma and private equity firms at a recent conference sought a robust domestic market and reimbursement mechanism to propel the innovation ecosystem in India, drawing parallels with the framework that aided China's ascent in the R&D value chain. Alongside, regulatory reform is also pivotal, they stressed.

Leaders of biopharma and private equity firms at a recent conference sought a robust domestic market and reimbursement mechanism to propel the innovation ecosystem in India, drawing parallels with the framework that aided China's ascent in the R&D value chain. Alongside, regulatory reform is also pivotal, they stressed.

GSK discontinues Cervarix in India as part of portfolio rationalization efforts against the backdrop of the arrival of Serum’s 'affordable' quadrivalent HPV vaccine. The heat is also believed to be on the UK drugmaker’s pneumococcal vaccine Synflorix in the country.