A new report discusses the priorities that India should focus on to leapfrog towards transformative innovation. Big pharma’s expanding global capability centres (GCCs) in India are also contributing to the innovation ecosystem while positioning the country as the global industry's “backbone”.

Glenmark hopes complex and respiratory products including a potential filing for generic Flovent pMDI can restore some lost sheen of its US business going forward, but a compliance comeback for its Monroe site may be pivotal to deliver material gains.

In an interview with Scrip, Astellas’s India chief outlines how the Japanese company expects to build out its operations in the country, with a flurry of key launches in the wings. She also shares vignettes of her own career path, which has not been a bed of roses.