India is the second-largest pharmaceutical market in Asia. ... A BDS graduate can have various job roles available in this sector: Principal Investigator, Co-investigator, Medical Advisor, Drug Developer, Regulatory Affairs Manager or even a Clinical Research Physician. Career opportunities in the clinical research field are many and varied, with employment settings ranging from pharmaceutical and biotechnology, to medical device companies, contract research organizations, hospitals, educational institutions, independent contractors and more. Many professionals with a strong science or healthcare related background — such as nurses, pharmacists, medical technologists, physicians and more — are well-positioned to join the clinical research field. Here are 10 career paths in the field.

1. A guest lecture
on
Opportunities for BDS
in Pharmaceutical industries
Dr. Kumbhare Manoj R.
Professor
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY
Institute of Dental Sciences and Research
At
25.03.2021

2. The pharmaceutical
industry
• The pharmaceutical industry discovers, develops, produces, and
markets drugs or pharmaceutical drugs for use as medications to be
administered (or self-administered) to patients,.
• Pharmaceutical companies may deal in generic or brand medications
and medical devices. They are subject to a variety of laws and
regulations that govern the patenting, testing, safety, efficacy
and marketing of drugs.
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3. Pharmaceutical industry in India
• The pharmaceutical industry in India was valued at
US$33 billion in 2017 and generic drugs account for
20 per cent of global exports in terms of volume,
making the country the largest provider of generic
medicines globally According to the Department of
pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and
Fertilizers, domestic pharmaceutical market
turnover reached Rs 129,015 crore (US$18.12
billion) in 2018, growing 9.4 per cent year-on-year
and exports revenue was US$17.28 billion in FY18
and US$19.14 billion in FY19.
Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Baddi, (Himachal
Pradesh) Chennai, Banglore,
Ahmadabad,Vadodara, Ankleswar, Vapi, Sikkim and
Kolkata are the major pharmaceutical hubs of
India.
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4. • Drug discovery is the process by which potential drugs are discovered or
designed. In the past, most drugs have been discovered either by isolating the
active ingredient from traditional remedies or by serendipitous discovery.
Modern biotechnology often focuses on understanding the metabolic
pathways related to a disease state or pathogen, and manipulating these
pathways using molecular biology or biochemistry. A great deal of early-stage
drug discovery has traditionally been carried out by universities and research
institutions
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5. Top 20 drug companies by sales (2006)
Company Pharma ($ million)
Pfizer 45,083
GlaxoSmithKline 40,156
Sanofi-Aventis 38,555
Roche 27,290
AstraZeneca 26,475
Johnson & Johnson 23,267
Novartis 22,576
Merck & Co 20,375
Wyeth 16,884
Lilly 15,691
Bristol-Myers Squibb 13,861
Boehringer Ingelheim 13,860
Amgen 13,858
Abbott Laboratories 12,395
Bayer 10,162
Takeda 8,716
Schering-Plough 8,561
Teva 7,821
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6. Top 10 listed pharmaceutical companies in India by market
capitalization as of June 2020.
Rank Company
Market Capitalization
June 2020 (INR crores)
1 Sun Pharmaceutical 116,415
2 Dr. Reddy's Laboratories 66,596
3 Divi's Laboratories 61,282
4 Cipla 51,645
5 Aurobindo Parma 46,043
6 Torrent Pharmaceuticals 42,753
7 Lupin Ltd 41,747
8 Zydus Cadila Healthcare 37,422
9 Abbott India 33,915
10 Alkem Laboratories 27,807
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7. Indian Dental Market
Description: By 2014, the Indian dental equipments industry is expected to
reach US$ 116.43 million, growing 6% annually, the dental care services market
US$ 1.16 billion and oral care market US$ 1.8 billion. The Indian healthcare
industry is experiencing quick transformation owing to the increasing demand
for quality healthcare. In India, Oral healthcare is an important aspect of the
overall health of an individual.
Diseases such as dental caries and oral cancers are major public health issues
in India.
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8. Is clinical research a
good career after BDS?
Clinical Research
India is the second-largest pharmaceutical market in Asia. ... A BDS graduate
can have various job roles available in this sector: Principal Investigator, Co-
investigator, Medical Advisor, Drug Developer, Regulatory Affairs Manager
or even a Clinical Research Physician.
•Career opportunities in the clinical research field are many and varied, with
employment settings ranging from pharmaceutical and biotechnology, to
medical device companies, contract research organizations, hospitals,
educational institutions, independent contractors and more.
•Many professionals with a strong science or healthcare related background
— such as nurses, pharmacists, medical technologists, physicians and more
— are well-positioned to join the clinical research field. Here are 10 career
paths in the field.
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9. Clinical trials
1. Clinical research coordinator
2. Clinical research associate
3. Clinical research data specialist
4. Clinical investigator or clinical researcher
5. Research pharmacist
6. Clinical project manager
7. Clinical laboratory technologist or technician
8. Medical laboratory scientist
9. Medical/scientific writer
10. Marketing and communications professional
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10. Response to
COVID-19
• In November 2020 several pharmaceutical companies announced successful
trials of COVID-19 vaccines, with efficacy of 90 to 95% in preventing infection.
Per company announcements and data reviewed by external analysts, these
vaccines are priced at $3 to $37 per dose. The Wall Street Journal ran an
editorial calling for this achievement to be recognized with a Nobel Peace
Prize.
• Doctors Without Borders warned that high prices and monopolies on
medicines, tests, and vaccines would prolong the pandemic and cost lives.
They urged governments to prevent profiteering, using compulsory licenses as
needed, as had already been done by Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Germany, and
Israel.
• On 20 February, 46 US lawmakers called for the US government not to grant
monopoly rights when giving out taxpayer development money for any
coronavirus vaccines and treatments, to avoid giving exclusive control of prices
and availability to private manufacturers.
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11. PHARMACOVIGILANCE
AND RISK MANAGEMENT
DEFINITION OF PHARMACOVIGILANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines pharmacovigilance as the science
and activities relating to the detection, evaluation, understanding, and
prevention of adverse reactions to medicines or any other medicine-related
problems. The definition and scope of pharmacovigilance have evolved to
recognize the importance of a systems approach for monitoring and improving
the safe use of medicines.
A simpler definition describes pharmacovigilance as the processes and science
of monitoring the safety of medicines and taking action to reduce risk and
increase benefit. Therefore, the assessment of benefit versus risk must begin
during the preclinical evaluation of a medicinal product and must extend
throughout its full life cycle. As a result, there is now added focus on safety
and risk assessment after a product has received regulatory approval, when it
is placed on the market and prescribed to large populations.
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12. Exports
• Exports of pharmaceuticals products from India increased from
US$6.23 billion in 2006–07 to US$8.7 billion in 2008-09 a combined
annual growth rate of 21.25%.
• India exported $11.7 billion worth of pharmaceuticals in 2014.
Pharmaceutical export from India stood at US$17.27 billion in
2017–18, and is expected to grow by 30 per cent to reach US$20
billion by the year 2020.And India Share in This 40%.
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13. CRO
• A contract research organization (CRO) is a company that provides
support to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical
device industries in the form of research services outsourced on a
contract basis. A CRO may provide such services as
biopharmaceutical development, biologic assay development,
commercialization, preclinical research, clinical research, clinical
trials management, and pharmacovigilance.
• CROs are designed to reduce costs for companies developing new
medicines and drugs.
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14. Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business or other organization.
The term entrepreneur implies qualities of leadership, initiative,
management abilities, and business teambuilding. These are essential
attributes through which the entrepreneur develops a business plan,
acquires the manpower and other required resources, and is fully
responsible for its success or failure; most common option opted by the
dental graduates is a private practice and a few explore their career in dental
laboratories. Every practicing dentist will aspire in converting a private
practice into an enterprise, which is a challenging task. Many of the
practitioners have converted their private practices into an enterprise.
Success in private practice cannot be pointed out to one reason, but its
failure will have multiple reasons. There are various factors which must be
considered for successful conversion of a private practice into an enterprise
such as understanding the need of the society, mastering the treatment
skills, communication skills, updating knowledge and new trends, patient
satisfaction, mouth publicity, management of support staff, maintaining
professional network, and financial viability.
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15. Entrepreneurship development
Entrepreneurship development institutes (EDI) provide financial
assistance under EDI schemes by Ministry of MSME and also provide
all type of guidance and have launched many subsidy schemes to
help fulfill the entrepreneurship dream of many Indians.
Dental graduates must take benefit of such schemes and pursue
their career in a successful entrepreneurship. The purpose of this
lecture is not only to limit our entrepreneurship horizons to private
practice but widen it to think big in the manufacturing sector.
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16. JOBS
• Job description
Hi,
Greetings from Ladder Consulting!!
Hiring BDS Freshers For Dental Manufacturing company @ Mumbai .
Qualification : BDS
Male candidates Freshers required
We are looking for To promote the product specialists and branding promotion of dental
products...
Job Location : Mumbai
Head Office : Hyderabad
Salary : 18-20k
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17. Summary
• The pharmaceutical industry
• Drug discovery
• Is clinical research a good career after BDS?
• PHARMACOVIGILANCE
• Entrepreneurship
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18. Thank you……
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