Convention's Initiative:Update Professionals In Regulatory Agency

The FDA Class I Officers Association and Drugs Inspectors' Welfare Association, Maharashtra State, hosted the AIDCOC Convention 2008. The convention was an interactive platform to update professionals in regulatory agencies and pharmaceutical industry to share their views and distribution network about advances in the area of Pharmacotherapeutics. The theme 'Better healthcare through innovations in pharmaceuticals' was in line with AIDCOC's endeavour of achieving professional excellence through self-initiative and providing better services to the consumer. The program began with the keynote address on the theme by Dr Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director, Biocon. The experts from various field shared their knowledge with the delegates on various subjects such as incentives to innovations through intellectual property rights, stem cell-emerging therapy, innovations in packaging, quality risk management, supply chain management and international regulatory harmonisation. Along with this, there was a panel discussion on 'Indian healthcare scenario-vision 2020' and 'Acquiring competitive edge through innovations'. Two hundred drugs control officers covering all states and two hundred professionals from pharmaceutical industry, blood banks, and clinical research organisations were registered as delegates.
AIDCOC Convention 2008 addressed key issues before the pharmaceutical industry and the concerns about the availability, affordability and rational use of medicines. It also focused on the benefits of innovations to the consumers and the need to concentrate resources and R&D efforts on specific disease pattern in India. S R Salunkhe, Organising Secretary and his team in the Organising Committee under the guidance of Dhanraj Khamatkar, Commissioner, FDA and Sandeep Bishnoi, Joint Commissioner, (Vig) as Patron and Co-Patron ensured the success of the event. The Organising Committee was guided and supported by SA Momin, Chairperson; Ravi Kant, President, AIDCOC; Ravi Uday Bhaskar, Secretary General, AIDCOC and S W Deshpande, Director General, AIDCOC. The conference brought together great emissaries from the field of pharma and biotech industry who shared their views on the current trends and needs of the industry.
Source:Express Pharma