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Deputy Asia Editor
India
+19 year(s) experience
Anju has extensive experience at India's mainstream financial dailies, The Economic Times, The Hindu Business Line and The Financial Express. As Corporate Bureau Chief (Mumbai), she led a team of reporters at The Financial Express prior to joining Scrip. She’s been associated with Scrip since 2001, when it was part of PJB Publications.
Anju enjoys covering pharma conferences and interviewing industry heads and regulatory/government officials in the region. Occasionally, she also moderates industry panels at key events.
She follows racket sports closely and has previously received recognition at the national level in India. She loves the hills and when not reporting on pharma believes that nature is the best therapy.
Scrip
Pharmaceutical manufacturing in India is facing some early stress amid the new 21-day lock-down but both the industry and government machinery are actively engaged and working together to ensure that disruptions are minimized in the ‘pharmacy of the world.’
Topic Coronavirus
Generics Bulletin
Private equity group True North continues to back the Biocon group and is picking up a minority stake in Biocon Biologics in a deal that values the subsidiary at $3bn. Separately, another subsidiary, Biocon Biosphere, has also been set up as part of efforts to unlock the full potential of the business.
Topic Deal trends Strategy
Scrip
Cipla’s global chief operating officer is leaving the company to pursue new interests, amid a spate of top-level exits that have marked the pharma sector in India in 2019.
Generics Bulletin
More Indian companies are headed to China, with Cipla the latest to seal a joint venture there, though the firm has previous links with the country. Respiratory products will lead Cipla’s line-up in China, a market seen as a crucial cog in the firm’s future road map.
Pink Sheet
Courts may increasingly find limits on how far Park Doctrine tool can be ‘pushed,’ Sklamberg says in wide-ranging interview with the Pink Sheet. Former US FDA deputy commissioner for global regulatory operations and policy, now with law firm Akin Gump, also shares his views on the US-EU MRA to recognize each other’s inspections and data integrity.
Topic FDA
Scrip
Bharat hopes to expand international reach of Chiron Behring’s rabies vaccine. WuXi and Biolingus partner on sublingual delivery.
Scrip
Almirall's Ilumetri, licensed from Sun Pharma, has been cleared by the European Commission, upping the competition quotient in the psoriasis market and pitting the product directly against Johnson & Johnson's Tremfya.
Topic BioPharmaceutical
Scrip
Competition may be just readying to jump in and gnaw into Humira’s share in Europe later this year, but the Indian market for biosimilar adalimumab already has more than half a dozen players, with distinct pricing characteristics. Scrip takes a peek into the competitive market.
Topic Strategy
Scrip
IQVIA’s general manager (South Asia), Amit Mookim, outlines the reasons for scaling down the five-year outlook for the Indian pharmaceutical market, including a near halving of the prognosis for 2017.
Topic Company analysis
Scrip
US scale-up plans, cost optimization and a deeper push in certain other markets to garner volumes and as a buffer against volatility were some of the key strategies discussed by Cipla’s CEO
Topic Strategy
Scrip
The Indian contract development and manufacturing organization Piramal Pharma Solutions expects to grow its pool of “preferred partnerships” that includes a mix of both biotechs and large pharma.
Scrip
Lara Bezerra moves from turbulent Venezuela to head Roche in India. Scrip highlights what the incoming Roche boss might expect on the generally peaceful yet complex Indian market.
Scrip
Lara Bezerra moves from turbulent Venezuela to head Roche in India. Scrip highlights what the incoming Roche boss might expect on the generally peaceful yet complex Indian market.
Scrip
Lara Bezerra moves from turbulent Venezuela to head Roche in India. Scrip highlights what the incoming Roche boss might expect on the generally peaceful yet complex Indian market.
Scrip
01 Apr 2020
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31 Mar 2020
Generics Bulletin
31 Mar 2020
Scrip
30 Mar 2020
Pink Sheet
25 Mar 2020
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22 Mar 2020
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18 Mar 2020
Scrip
12 Mar 2020
Generics Bulletin
12 Mar 2020
Pink Sheet
10 Mar 2020
Generics Bulletin
06 Mar 2020
Generics Bulletin
24 Feb 2020
Scrip
24 Feb 2020
Generics Bulletin
20 Feb 2020
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18 Feb 2020
