Telangana is on a journey to become global hub for integrated life sciences: Chief Minister Revanth Reddy

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy | Photo Credit: SIDDHANT THAKUR

Telangana is moving up on the value chain from being a leading manufacturer of drugs and vaccines to become a global hub for integrated life sciences, according to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy.

He was speaking at the inaugural session of the 23rd edition of BioAsia 2026, Telangana’s flagship forum of life sciences and healthcare forum here on Tuesday.

Telangana is offering a stable and reliable ecosystems for the development of life sciences and had already become a hub of Global Capability Centres (GCCs), Reddy said.

“We are not competing with others States in India but are competing with top global clusters.,’’ he said, adding that there’s a need for greater collaboration between the government and all other stakeholders in the industry.

D Sridhar Babu, Minister for Industries, said Hyderabad has become a ‘trusted global partner’ in life sciences for many across the world. The State will play a key role in convergence of pharma/biology and technology as it’s . becoming the brain of the global pharma with GCCs and R&D centres of leading pharma / life sciences companies, he added.

K Satish Reddy, Chairman, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, said there was a profound shift in pharma and life sciences with the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-led drug discovery and development. 

Data-driven biology was turning pharma R&D into a much more productive engine with greater capital efficiency, Reddy said, adding that Telangana is well-positioned to be a global leader with strengths in pharma, biologics and medtech.

There are over 800 pharma/life sciences firms in Hyderabad with about 250 USFDA approved plants and 40 percent of the country’s total production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) come from Telangana, Reddy said. “Telangana Stands ready to lead as a global hub for tech bio,’’ he added. 

Sanjay Kumar, Special Chief Secretary, Industries, Govt of Telangana, said the time has come to take a step from volume to value-added productions. The new life sciences policy has given industry status to R&D for the first time along with production-linked incentives.

“We are creating new clusters. In the last two calendar years, 40% of GCCs of the country came to Hyderabad totalling to 150. We will cross 100 new GCCs in the present calendar year of 2026,’’ he said. 

The two-day conference is being attended by industry representatives and scientists from across the world with plenary sessions on a range of topics spanning across of R&D and convergence of technology

Published on February 17, 2026