Biocon Limited is a biopharmaceutical firm in India, engaged in developing, manufacturing and selling pharmaceutical products for oncology, diabetes and autoimmune diseases in the nation as well as abroad. The company has several sectors of operations such as small molecules, branded formulations, research services and more.
The company is manufacturing insulin lispro, insulin glargine, insulin aspart, recombinant human insulin, monoclonal antibodies, small molecules viz. generic formulations and active pharmaceutical ingredients and more, along with botanical products. Besides that, the company has branded formulation products under brands such as Insugen, BIOMAb, ALZUMAb, EGFR, Basalog and CANMAb. Biocon Limited has certifications such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001:2004, ISO 9001:2000, ISO 15189:2003 and OHSAS 18001:1999. The company has been developing its entire research system based upon small and large molecules, oligonucleotides and antibody-drug conjugates. Clinigene International Ltd and Syngene International Ltd are the two subsidiaries of Biocon Limited. The company has a global intervention in approximately 120 countries.
About Company Information:
Biocon Limited was incepted in 1978 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India. Biocon Limited was found when an Indian entrepreneur signed a joint venture with Ireland based firm Biocon Biochemicals Limited in 1978. The company started manufacturing and exporting enzymes to USA and Europe from 1979. Biocon Biochemicals Limited was acquired by Unilever plc and merged with Unilever’s subsidiary Quest International.
In 1990, the company enhanced its in-house research programme by introducing new technologies. In 1993, the R&D, along with manufacturing facilities of the company, was certified ISO 9001 by RWTUV, Germany. Syngene International Pvt. Ltd was incorporated by the company in 1994 as a Custom Research Company for addressing the exponentially increasing need for outsourced Research & Development in the pharmaceutical sector.
Developing an efficient manufacturing facility, Biocon Limited started to venture its initiatives for human healthcare in the medicine market and business since 1997. In 1998, Unilever had gone for a deal with ICI for selling its speciality chemicals division, which includes Quest International.
A totally automated submerged fermentation plant, for the first time in its history of operation, was commissioned by the company in 2000, for manufacturing speciality pharmaceuticals. Clinigene, India’s first Clinical Research Organisation for providing clinical research and development was commissioned by the company in 2000. US FSA approved Biocon Limited as India’s first pharmaceutical company to manufacture the cholesterol-lowering molecule lovastatin.
In 2005, a commercial agreement was signed by Biocon Limited for supplying insulin API to Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Nation’s largest biotechnology hub, having an integrated set up of manufacturing facilities and research laboratories with a spreading of 90 acres in Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board—namely, Biocon Park was established by the company in 2006. Country’s largest multi-product Biologics facility was also established at Biocon Park.
An MoU was signed between Biocon and Neopharma, resulting as a joint venture firm Neobiocon in July 2007. A strategic partnership was established between the company and IATRICa, Inc for developing jointly a range of immunoconjugates regarding the immunotherapy of cancers and infectious diseases in January 2008.
BASALOG, long-lasting basal insulin for Type 1 & Type 2 Diabetics were introduced by Biocon Limited in 2009. Biocon Cell was launched as the resultant of the partnership between Biocon Limited and ISB for Innovation Management in the same year. AxiCorp GmbH, the German subsidiary of Biocon had been sold by the company in 2011, to its existing promoters and shareholders. ALZUMAb, was launched by Biocon Limited in 2013 for the psoriasis patients in India.
In 2014, CANMAb – Trastuzumab, a medicine for the treatment of breast cancer was launched by the company in India. A world-class premium devices facility was inaugurated by Biocon at Bangalore in 2015 along with the introduction of Basalog One in India. Mylan and Biocon jointly submitted a proposal for Biosimilar Trastuzumab to USFDA in 2016.
Biocon Limited declared that along with Mylan it is going to enhance the introduction of adalimumab biosimilar in Europe, as Mylan has an in-licensing arrangement with Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics.
How Biocon Ltd, is categorised as a Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Sector, and Pharmaceutical Industry :
The Pharmaceutical Industry includes companies that derive their business by researching, discovering, developing, manufacturing, and marketing and distributing pharmaceutical medicines and drugs.
Biocon Ltd is categorized under the Health care sector and Hospitals and Medical services Industry. Healthcare sectors consist of firms involved in the medical space. It is one of the multiple sectors that comprise a range of businesses, including ones that offer medical services directly, or to those that work to develop, create and market medical equipment and medicines. It also includes the other services that provide medical insurance and other related products, and many more.
The stocks of health care companies mostly have mixed performance. It is due to the inherent challenges to the industry each year, regulatory uncertainties, fiscal policy concerns, and more.
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