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The USA-India Chamber of Commerce mission is to provide a pro-active & professional platform for high ranking policy makers, senior business executives, academicians, and investors in the United States and India to network, facilitate and promote trade, investments & economic cooperation. USAIC’s four point agenda is: Trade, Investment, Policy and Advocacy.

US-India BioPharma & Healthcare Summit 2010 - Media Coverage

US cos to attend bio-pharma summit

WASHINGTON - Reflecting the emergence of India as a top global destination for research and development in the bio-pharma sector, leading industry leaders, investors, academicians and policy makers would attend a day-long US-India Bio-Pharma and Healthcar e Summit in Boston in May......... "Participation of so many eminent people reflects their recognition of potential for valuable collaborations to bring forward innovative therapies for patients in India and the world," said Mr Martin Mackay, president of Pfizer PharmaTherapeutics R&D, wh o is also a co-chair for the summit....... "India is now developing very fast with its own R&D model," said Dr Marc Cluzel, Global Head of R&D for Sanofi-Aventis.....
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Leading US India firms to attend Bio-Pharma Summit

Reflecting the emergence of India as a top global destination for research and development in the bio-pharma sector,....."During the day-long meeting, participants would brain storm on a wide range of issues including drug discovery & development, industry-academic partnerships, healthcare opportunities, clinical research, funding innovation and cross border M&A trends," said Karun Rishi, president of the USA-India Chamber of Commerce. Noting that the growth in the healthcare services in India is driven by the 350 million strong middle class people aspiring for quality and affordable healthcare services, Dr Trehan said according to the WHO report, India needs to add 80,000 hospital beds each year for the next five years to meet the demands of its growing population. "This presents a great opportunity for ethical players with long term view," he said...
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US-Indian Chamber of Commerce hails Budget as fiscal stimulus
The USA-India Chamber of Commerce has said the Annual Budget presented by the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is a massive piece of fiscal stimulus which would spur growth and employment...
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US-India Biotech Summit 2009 - Media Coverage

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India's dearth of Drug R&D Investment Creates Innovation BottleneckBOSTON - India faces a lacuna in research and development funding, with lags in government investment and venture capital activity that are creating roadblocks to accelerating the country's growth in pharmaceutical sector, experts said...
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UICC honors Dr. Barry Bloom for distinguished service

NEW YORK: Dr. Barry Bloom, a medical education pioneer in India, was presented with Distinguished Services Award by the USA-India Chamber of Commerce for his longstanding and deep commitment to help improve public health and biomedical science in India; his scientific contributions to immunology, leprosy and tuberculosis; and his passion for educating the next generation of Indian scientists and scholars...
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India Chamber felicitates Doctor Barry Bloom

Bostom, August 25 - The USA-India Chamber of Commerce has felicitated Dr Barry Bloom of Harvard...... Emphasising the need for a stronger interface between the industry, academia and NGO, Bloom said the US can learn a great deal from public private partnerships in India...
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USA India Chamber felicitates Doctor Barry Bloom

The USA-India Chamber of Commerce has felicitated Dr Barry Bloom of Harvard...... Felicitating Bloom, Rishi said he has four decades of selfless service to improve public health and medical education in India. Bloom's involvement with India goes back to 1969 when he first visited India...
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USA India Chamber felicitates Doctor Barry Bloom

Boston, Aug 25 (PTI) The USA-India Chamber of Commerce has felicitated Dr Barry Bloom of Harvard...... the most impressive thing in India is its incredible creative range of public private partnerships. "Whether it is high quality high throughput model where paying patient on one side and poor patient on the other side get the best possible care at hospitals...
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Top industry leaders and key policy makers to participate in the US-India BioPharma & Healthcare Summit

US-India BioPharma and Healthcare Summit, an annual summit organized by the USA-India Chamber of Commerce which brings together all stakeholders of the sector to facilitate trade and investments in US-India corridor, had attracted over 300 senior biotech, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and academic leaders this year......there is too much clinical data available in the world, but the challenge lies in converting that data into knowledge for drug discovery. India with its IT strengths can play a vital role....
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Top industry leaders and key policy makers to participate in the US-India BioPharma & Healthcare

...the necessity to leverage the global intellectual enterprise takes center stage...This is the time for Indian companies to ramp up their capacity and quality standards...
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USAIC Summit sets stage for 'bold, innovative' partnerships

...As we see the pressure to reduce healthcare costs and find innovative solutions to unmet needs build up, the necessity to leverage the global intellectual enterprise takes centre stage....
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US-India drug discovery, collaborative research partnerships growing despite global slowdown
...USA-India Chamber of Commerce applauded the efforts of Government of India's initiative to make India an innovation hub by 2020 and termed it a bold initiative...
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Indian healthcare market to grow despite slowdown: McKinsey

Notwithstanding the current global economic crisis, India's pharmaceutical industry and its health care market are expected to grow rapidly in the next few years...
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India can become a global pharma innovation hub, experts say

India has the potential to emerge as a global innovation hub and the US's collabortion with Indian pharma and health companies will not only help the two countries, but also entire world, eminent experts and industry leaders said...
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Bio-pharma summit in Boston on May 14
...We have created an ecosystem where all stake holders meet to share and learn. This unique platform creates mutually beneficial opportunities for the US and Indian industry necessary to take the business to the next level,...
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US-India pharma partnerships growing despite economic slowdown

...There is an urgent need for US BioPharma industry to engage Indian academia and for Indian industry to connect with US academic institutions. Participants' mood was very upbeat....
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US-India Healthcare Summit to help alliances

...Top tier life sciences focused venture capitalists, private equity firms and investment bankers have shown great interest in the Summit. Since the last Summit, some venture capitalists have set up India/Asia focused funds...
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US-India Biopharma, Healthcare Summit on May 14 at Massachusetts

...The keynote address will be delivered on the theme 'Policy Makers and Industry Leaders' and Discussions will be held with Nobel Laureate Prof. Sydney Altman...
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Healthcare industry beats slowdown

...Released recently at the US India Biopharma and Healthcare Summit, the report said that high growth of the Indian healthcare sector was primarily driven by domestic reasons...
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Indian healthcare market to grow despite slowdown

...Even as managing cost and margin improvement continue to be a focus, there is increasing pressure for companies to collaborate and potentially seek risky investment...
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US-India Biotech Summit 2008 - Media Coverage

Better days ahead
The meltdown of the US economy has raised legitimate concerns among the Indian establishment and industry. The US economy is in dire straits. The repercussions are being felt across a wide spectrum of industries, notably in financial, banking, housing, automobiles and retail-the leading growth engines in the past decade....
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Sibal exhorts US industry to invest in India's biopharma R&D offering

Over 350 execs and investors attend USAICC summit...
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Challenge is to develop highest quality drugs at the lowest cost: Kapil Sibal

At USA-India Chamber of Commerce's BioPharma Summit the minister spoke about collaborative initiatives between the two countries...
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U.S. and Indian Officials Collaborate at BioPharma Summit 2008

"Innovation and funding innovation will get a big boost from this Summit," said Karun Rishi, President of the USA-India Chamber of Commerce. "Collaborative research and strategic alliances will be the key forces driving the business."...
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US-India BioPharma Summit in June "The US-India BioPharma Summit is part of an ongoing dialogue with all the stakeholders including industry, investors, policy makers and academia," said Karun Rishi, President of the USA-India Chamber of Commerce....
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BioPharma in India: U.S.-India Summit

In his keynote address, Indian Minister of Science and Technology Kapil Sibal talked of an emerging intellectual property regime in India that would not only uphold the interests of indulging pharmaceutical companies but shall also match their investment on a 50:50 basis to build an environment to develop collaborative initiatives to mutual benefits in the field of agriculture, marine and health sciences...
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US-India BioPharma Summit in Cambridge

...The result oriented work being done by the USA-India Chamber of Commerce to promote and facilitate biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and healthcare business and investments between the two countries is laudable.Globalization has favored the technology intensive industries in general and the biotech industry in particular...
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Global Pharma Leaders attend USIndia BioPharma Summit 2008

...Dr. Surinder Singh, Drug Controller General of India in his keynote address talked about implementation of an advanced "e governance drug regulatory system in India". This electronic system, unique in itself is currently being developed with intense support from the Indian IT sector to suit the Indian context, following closer understanding of the functioning of its equivalent counterparts in the world- WHO, Health Canada and FDA. This digitalized and interactive portal is being seen as a revolutionary change to centralize the regulatory system and running clinical trials in India ensuring transparency and accountability at all levels...
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US-India BioPharma Summit in Boston

...We are seeing a very high level of interest and participation from across the nation and other countries. It has become the bio pharma event of the world focussed on US-India life sciences and healthcare......
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GAVI earmarks $350m to immunize poor children in India

...And trying to strengthen GAVI's commitment to India by encouraging corporate philanthropic funding is Boston-based Karun Rishi, President of the USA-India Chamber of Commerce (USAICC), and a 'Friend' of GAVI Alliance...
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US-India Biotech Summit 2007 - Media Coverage

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Industry leaders, policy makers bullish about US-India biotech opportunities

The US-India Biotech Summit in Boston attracted over 300 senior executives to discuss and recommend suggestions to take the life sciences business to the next level...
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Research-friendly climate necessary for growth in biotech: experts

Venture capitalists are now not aggressively pursuing deals in India in the biotech space, although this is expected to change in the near future...
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Biotech meet aims to double US-India business in 2 years
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US, India biotech leaders to hold summit at Boston

A galaxy of leaders from the US biotech industry and venture capital segment will interact with the Indian biotech delegation at BIO Boston. The USA-India Chamber of Commerce has put together an exciting evening to bring face-to-face the industry leaders to take the Destination India story in biotech forward...
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US-India Biotech Summit in Boston

The focussed areas of the summit will be discovery, development, IP and regulatory issues, Investment opportunities and mergers and acquisitions of trends in the Life Sciences industry...
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US India BioTech Summit attracts 300 executives

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Biotech industries meet for a Quality Summit
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