‘Hyderabad crucial in leading India’s biologics’

Hyderabad, major pharmaceutical hub in India, can help the country lead in biologics and next-generation therapy revolution by strengthening translational research, establishing specialised manufacturing clusters and forging multi-discipline scientific collaborations, Director, Aurobindo Pharma, M. Madan Mohan Reddy said on Saturday.

To emerge as a global centre for AI and for data-driven drug development, he urged the industry to adopt integrated computational science across discoveries and real-world evidence generation, besides joint research programmes, incubations, and responsible manufacturing to emerge as a green pharma hub.

Mr. Reddy was speaking at the 14th convocation ceremony at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad here. He was, for his contribution to the pharmaceutical industry, conferred with the honorary doctorate.

According to him, the future of healthcare would not be by established paths, but by forging new ones, and urged the graduating students to carry three tools for lifelong learning and success – curiosity, strong value system, and holistic learning.

He also observed that technological competence while is essential, curiosity and lifelong learning guided by values will drive innovation and make India a global epicentre of bio innovation.

Vice Chancellor T. Kishen Kumar Reddy presiding over the day’s event said a total of 82,547 degrees were conferred, including 72,210 undergraduate, 9,373 postgraduate, 729 Pharm.D, and 87 PhD. Gold medals were presented to 71 candidates for merit and excellence.

Mr. Kishen Kumar Reddy also informed that the students were placed well in the campus selections and a mega job fair attended by about 20,000 students. Successful candidates were offered packages in the range of ₹4 lakh and ₹50 lakh.

The institute in the past year has developed 23 deep tech startups in the areas of cyber security and urban mobility. From the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, UGC and central agencies, JNTUH received about ₹10.65 crore for research in various disciplines.

JNTUHs infrastructural projects, including advanced and modern classrooms, laboratories, and special equipment, were also completed, he informed.