Modern Drug Research Centre for Kerala

Dr.B.Ekbal

Consultative Meeting on

Centre-State Technology Partnership

Modern Drug Research Centre for Kerala

• Central and State Research Institutes New Drug Molecules Standardisation and Validation of

Traditional Medicines

Indian Drug Industry

• Technical Self Sufficiency in Drug Production

• Low Cost Drug Supplier Patent Act : Process Patency Drug Price Control Industrial Policy

Indian Drug IndustryPresent Scenario

• Patent Act 2005 : Product Patent

• Private Sector Merging and Acquisition by MNCs Contract Research and Drug Trials

• Escalating Drug Price

• Drug Research not a top priority

Kerala Advantages

• Traditional Knowledge• Medicinal Plant Wealth• Research Institutes

Hortus Malabaricus

• Medicinal Plants: 650• Medicinal Uses• Traditional Medical Practice• Ethno-Medical Information

Hortus Malabaricus

• Global Market $ 61B • China: $ 5 B

• India: $ 300 m (6% of China)

• Domestic Market: 3,000 Crs @ 15-20% • 7500 Manufacturing Units: 1000 Kerala• Kerala Market 300 Crs• 800 Species of Medicinal Plants

– < 20% Commercial Cultivation

Traditional Pharmaceutical Industry

• Identity of medically active markers

• Validation• Testing and Certification• Standardisation• Toxicity

Traditional Medicine Limitations

Immense Popularity with limited Reliability

Traditional Pharmaceutical Sector

• National Medicinal Plant Board• Department of Ayush• Ministry of Environment and Forests• National Horticulture Board• Traditional Knowledge Digital Library• Public Research Laboratories

– ICMR, ICAR, DBT, CSIR

TM Drug Research: India’s Strengths

Modern Drug Research Centre for KeralaModern Drug Research Centre for Kerala

• Medicinal Aromatic Plants and Spices Sectors

• Tradition of Ayurveda• TBGRI, Rajeev Gandhi Centre of

Biotechnology• Agricultural University, University

Departments• Medical Colleges, Medical University

Central Research Institutes

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