Podcast: How Ex-Janssen India Chief Is Steering Bharat Serums’ Ambitions In Women’s Health

Sanjiv Navangul, managing director and CEO, Bharat Serums and Vaccines, in a wide-ranging interview with Scrip, outlines the firm’s game plan to establish itself as a “force to reckon with” in women’s health  -  it goes beyond  drugs and encompasses devices and potentially digital therapeutics as well. The former Janssen India chief also weighs in on the worrying industry-wide input cost escalation scenario and supply chain turbulence.

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It’s been an action-packed few years for the Indian biopharmaceutical firm, Bharat Serums And Vaccines Limited (BSV).

While 2019 saw the US-based private equity investor Advent International snap up a majority holding in BSV, a local pioneer in the development of blood components and therapeutic antibody products for infectious and non-infectious diseases, the firm kicked off 2022

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