Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Biotech Boom
Year 2000 every nook and corner the news was the next happening thing after green and white revolution was going to be genome revolution though this think never happened in last 9 years but the recent trends are giving me lot positive vibes regarding biotechnology being the happening things, If we just review the pipeline for Top 20 Global Pharma we observe that most of them have started filling their pipeline with Mab (Monoclonal antibody production) or peptide development, Assay development etc etc........what is your opinion about it ?........
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Hi Samayita
ReplyDeleteLet me express my views in this connection.
Biotechnology boom I personally fell was overestimated. A few reasons.... Pharmaceutical companies were the first to recognise the potential of human genome project. In their perview a lot of information of expected to be decoded.. which in fact happened and pharma copmanies were keen to exploit to this information for new drug targets and leads. The assumption was the information will reduce the drug discovery life cycle. In this connection a number of bacterial genomes especially the pathogens kept coming to NCBI database. I remember at leat one genome per day!!
However as the understandings of the human genome grew and still growing, the complexities created. In a race to gain the first mover advantage many companies invested heavily in the drug discovery pipeline.
As you noted the new pipelines are filled with MAbs and peptide development which particularity represents the bioterapeutics market and molecular diagnosis. I also have concerns about the vaccine industry which is now shifting its focus from traditional vaccine development methods to understanding the molecular pathogenesis. This shift has also reflected the the increased investments in the areas you are talking about.
Well international market is definitely important to understand but I will be more than happy to talk about the Indian context. Whether we really seeing a biotech boom in India? What say?
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