Hyderabad lifescience innovation cluster’s maiden meet held at Genome Valley

Hyderabad: To promote innovation and research through collaboration between researchers, entrepreneurs and lifesciences industry, Federation of Asian Biotechnology Associations (FABA) and Rx Propellant in association GV Connect and the National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research organized the first edition of the Hyderabad Life Science Innovation Cluster meeting at Genome Valley on Thursday.

Nearly 200 delegates participated in the meet that saw research institutions showcase their infrastructure, expertise, and technologies to industry, while industry presented their programmes and potential areas for collaboration.

As lifesciences is one of the most research-intensive sectors, collaboration between industry and academia is viewed as critical to developing new treatments, technologies, and products that have the potential to improve health outcomes and drive economic growth.

Rx Propellant VP Ketki Tulpule said the flagship cluster meeting in Genome Valley will pave the way for action-oriented plans to create a more collaborative environment for talent skilling, start-ups nurturing and partnerships.”

Dr K Anand Kumar, managing director, Indian Immunologicals Ltd, said, “Though India has moved up many places in Global Innovation Index, this is just the beginning of bigger milestones we can achieve.” Prof B J Rao, vice-chancellor, University of Hyderabad, said, “HLSIC is one of the unique gatherings of talent, profile, and innovation pools and has taken up the crucial task of binding the academia with industry and society at large in the mammoth activity of translating knowledge into societal wealth.