Archive for 2013

Crowdsourcing in the Biotech world: Innovation and outreach to a wider public

This guest post is from the BiotechBlog Intern,  Fintan Burke. Fintan is a student at the School of Biotechnology at Dublin City University. Do you have a response to Fintan’s post? Respond in the comments section below. One of the more enduring financing trends in recent years has been to turn to public interest to help […]


India's life sciences unravels

In the last weeks, India has seen serious setbacks to its life sciences industry. The NIH recently announced that they were cancelling 40 clinical trials in India due to an ‘unstable regulatory environment’. Earlier, the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) recalled 16 Indian drugs, citing deficiencies in manufacturing procedures. These recent occurrences compound […]


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