The Hindu Business Line : Pharma sector told to focus on improving HR quality

Bangalore, June 21 Indian pharmaceutical industry should focus its energy now on improving the quality of human resource through finishing schools to strengthen its position on global platform of drug discovery.

Finishing schools in the information technology industry are creating more awareness towards the Intellectual Property Rights environment and the pharma industry should emulate it, said panellists at the Bangalore Bio 2009 here Saturday.

Participating in the sessions on ‘Getting India onto the Global Platform — A People Perspective’ at the Bangalore Bio 2009 they felt “the development and progress in drug discovery in India is happening because of global pressure, not because we have strategically planned it. As the needs of bio-sciences industry are complex, the need for better adaptation strategies, is required, even for an expert scientist in order to succeed.”

Mr Manni Kantipudi, President, GVK Biosciences, who chaired the panel discussion session, said, “Human resource development and training are happening in India at multiple levels. The needs of the industry change constantly as the market environment changes. In order to compete with the western Contract Research Organisations (CROs), Indian CROs should evolve a continuous reorientation programme for their scientist HR.”

The nascent Indian CRO industry should strengthen its qualitative potential to catch up with the capabilities of problem solving ability of Western CROs.

Dr Gopal Vaidyanathan, General Manager – Application, Waters India, said, “ Acquisition, training and engagement of scientists for advanced technologies, which are not just sophisticated instruments or processes, but a combination of both, is the need of the hour. Current trend shows there is a reduction in manpower but spending on them has gone up. This is an indication of the need for constant training”.

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