DIA to host 8th Annual Conference: The New Clinical Research Environment in India: Implications and Opportunities

Drug Information Association (DIA) will host the 8th Annual Conference at Nimhans Convention Centre in Bangalore. The conference titled ‘The New Clinical Research Environment in India: Implications and Opportunities’ to be held on October 24-26, 2013 will provide a forum for academia, industry, regulators and researchers to come together to discuss the new environment for healthcare product development in India, the challenges and the opportunities. Participants will know about how their peers are coping with new regulations and how they are planning to realise the promise of emerging opportunities.

The keynote speakers for the conference are Prof Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Chairman, Task Force for Clinical Research, Apollo Hospitals Group, India and Mukhtar Ahmed, Vice President, Product Strategy, Oracle HSGBU, UK. The conference will be chaired by Shoibal Mukherjee, Vice President, CMO (India) and Head Asia, Medical Sciences Group, Quintiles and Sairamkumar J, Senior Vice President and Global Delivery Head, Cognizant Life Sciences. The guests of honour for the conference are BR Jagashetty, Drugs Controller, Karnataka State and HG Koshia, Commissioner, Gujarat FDCA.

Discussions will be held on topics like: Direction, outlook and vision for health related research in India; Review of recent changes in regulations and their implications; Challenges to global development and commercialisation ex-India; New opportunities for India-centric global delivery solutions; Global benchmarks in health care research regulations; Patient-centric endeavours for awareness and ethics of research.

Professionals, researchers and clinicians involved in drug discovery and development and regulatory affairs, for example drug development and clinical research managers and associates; pharma physicians and medical directors; drug safety and drug surveillance personnel; professionals engaged in discovery research; clinical pharmacology scientists are likely to attend the conference.

EP News Bureau – Mumbai