By 121 News Reporter
Chandigarh 17th January: -- The 40-member delegation comprising ministers, senators, bureaucrats, industry and institutions from Santa Fe will be present at BioAsia 2014 to be held from February 17 to 19, 2014 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC), Hyderabad.
Antonio Bonfatti, Hon'ble Governor of the province of Santa Fe said that Close to 20 biotech companies from the province of Santa Fe, will participate in BioAsia seeking partnership, collaboration and business with Indian Companies / institutions on key areas, particularly Pharma and Bioenergy. . The biotech industry in Santa Fe is focussed on human health and bio-pharma, Agrobiotechnology and industrial processing. Many of these companies which came up in the last 20 years are SMEs and university spin offs. "India and Santa Fe can work together in the development of new pharmaceutical and biopharmaceuticals, biomedical tests, new seeds, new products and processes to improve food industry and agricultural chains value and improvement of biofuel production. As most of our biotech and bio-pharma companies are SMEs, their thrust is on innovation which is why BioAsia as a platform is a perfect fit for us as they too are focussed on innovation in this edition.
Shakthi M. Nagappan, CEO, BioAsia said that the official delegation of Santa Fe Government will comprise, Governor of the province of Santa Fe, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Secretary of the Treasury, Director of Industrial Pharmaceutical Laboratory (LIF) and senators among others. The objective of this association is promoting businesses, collaborative research and development projects in strategic subjects. BioAsia will help showcase the full fledged ecosystem of Santa Fe biotech industry to Indian companies looking towards South America to scale up, collaborate or for mergers and acquisitions.
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