Monthly Archives: January 2013

New Delhi/BANGALORE, Jan 25, 2013, DHNS & PTI:

Biotechnology firm Biocon on Friday said it plans to launch a skin disease drug under the brand Alzumab in India in the current year and aims to garner Rs 100 crore in sales in the next four years.

We expect it (Alzumab) to be a Rs 100 crore product in next four years, Biocon Chairman and Managing Director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw told reporters in a conference call.

The company plans to launch the product during second quarter of the current year, she added.

Shaw said that the company invested little less than Rs 100 crore on developing the product" and added the company was confident that "we will recover it.

Earlier this year, the company received approval from drug controller (DCGI) to market 'Itolizumab', used in the treatment of psoriasis. It would be launched under the brand name Alzumab.

The global market size for psoriasis drugs is estimated to cross $8 billion by 2016. The product will be manufactured and formulated as an infusion drug at Biocon's biopharma manufacturing facility in Biocon Park, Bangalore.

When asked about her views on compulsory licensing, Shaw expressed a view that she was not in favour the law. It should be the last option rather than the first, she said

According to WTO agreement, a compulsory license can be invoked by a national government through allowing someone else to produce a patented product or process without the consent of the patent owner, to protect interest of the larger public.

Q3 net up 8%

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Biocon targets Rs 100 cr from psoriasis drug in next 4 years

London, January 26 (ANI): Kim Kardashian, who's psoriasis failed to clear up after using numerous lotion and potions, along with her sister Kourtney has revealed their home made remedy for the skin condition in a new outrageous episode of their reality show.

In a promotional clip for Sunday's show, the 32-year-old is seen yelping as Kourtney squirts breast milk directly from her chest onto her sister's leg.

The reality star, who is currently pregnant with her first child with rapper Kanye West, is seen screeching as Kourtney leans over her to drip the milk on her psoriasis spots.

The socialite had used mother-of-two Kourtney's breast milk before, after reading online that it could help clear up the lesions on her legs.

However, she wasn't quite expecting it to come this time, as she puts it, "fresh off the boob."

At the beginning of the clip, the sisters are seen in their Miami house, where Kim is musing over her psoriasis spots.

Obliging Kourtney immediately comes to the rescue, telling Kim to lean back and relax, and it is then that Kourtney takes one of her breasts out of her bra and squirts the milk over Kim's legs.

"Are you serious? I don't want to do this. Never mind!" the Daily Mail quoted Kim as saying.

"Are you really going to do this? Ew! Ew! That is so disgusting that you can just squeeze that and have it come out," she said.

Kim then instructs Kourtney to rub it into her leg.

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Kim Kardashian yelps as Kourtney squirts breast milk onto her leg to heal psoriasis