BioVoice News July 2016 Issue 3 Volume 1 | Page 50

“ “ bio quotes In order to meet its evergrowing demand for pulses, India needs to achieve selfsufficiency in pulses. We need to make pulses production more profitable by reducing production costs through mechanization, using hybrids and minimizing the postharvest losses. Dr David Bergvinson, Director General, ICRISAT on demand for hybrid pigeonpea seeds Obtaining DCGI approval for Stempeucel is an important and historic milestone. We are the FIRST Company in India to achieve such approval. It took almost 9 years to develop Stempeucel for the treatment of Buerger’s Disease. Our goal is to globalize Stempeucel for Buerger’s Disease and the market size is approx. US$ 1.5 Billion worldwide. Mr B N Manohar, CEO, Stempeutics on Stempeucel becoming 5th off-the-shelf approved stem cell in the world 50 BioVoiceNews | July 2016 “ “ India and Japan share a common vision of a sustainable future. The government of India is committed to transforming India into a knowledge-based society and such collab