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Welcome and Opening Remarks:Mr. Sridhar Pabbisetty, COO, Centre for Public Policy, IIM Bangalore

Reflecting on Biotech and Bangalore:Dr. Ian Scoones, STEPS Co-director & IDS Professorial Fellow

Evolution of Indian Biotech Industry:Dr. Vijay Chandru, President ABLE and CEO, Strand Life Sciences

Q & A

Tea Break

Panel Discussion on Biotechnology Regulatory BillModerator:Dr. Satya Dash, COO, ABLEPanelists:1. Mr. Leo Saldanha, Coordinator, Environment Support Group2. Dr. Jagadish Mittur, Biotechnology Consultant3. Dr. K. K. Narayanan, Vice President, Metahelix4. Dr. Dhananjay Patankar, Vice President, Syngene International5. Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar, Chairman and Managing Director Xcyton

Possible Future for India’s Biotech Industry:Dr. Chirantan Chatterjee, Professor, IIM Bangalore

Schedule

The Center for Public Policy (CPP), Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) and theSocial, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre, University of Sussex, UK, are coming together with the Association of Biotechnology-Led Enterprises (ABLE) to hold a half a day seminar on “Biotech in Bangalore : Past Experiences Future Trajectories.” This event is sponsored by the UK - India Education Research Initiative through a grant to the STEPS Centre and CPP.

The seminar will be held on Thursday, the 16th of February, 2012, at 3 pm, at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

The event will provide an opportunity to reflect on the changing biotech sector in Bangalore over the past decade and to analyze important policy changes. This seminar will provide an excellent forum for interaction with leaders of the biotech industry.

The distinguished speakers include Dr. Vijay Chandru, CEO, Strand Life Sciences and President, ABLE, Dr. Ian Scoones, Co-director, STEPS Centre, Mr. Leo Saldanha, Co-ordinator, Environmental Support Group, Dr. K. K. Narayanan, MD, Metahelix, Dr. Jagadish Mittur, Dr. Dhananjay Patankar, Syngene, Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar, XCyton, Dr. Satya Dash, COO-ABLE, and Prof. Chirantan Chatterjee, IIMB.

Introduction

Rajeev Gowda is Chairperson, Centre for Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Professor Gowda´s research focuses on how people and societies manage risk. At the theoretical level, he draws on behavioral decision theory, and at the applied level, his research is in the domain of risk analysis and management. His edited books include “Judgments, Decisions, and Public Policy,” published by Cambridge University Press and “India at Risk,” forthcoming.

In 2011, Dr. Gowda was appointed by the Government of India as a Director on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India.

M V Rajeev Gowda, PhD

Ian Scoones is co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex and joint convenor of the IDS-hosted Future Agricultures Consortium. He is an agricultural ecologist by training whose interdisciplinary research links the natural and social sciences and focuses on the relationships between science and technology, local knowledge and livelihoods and the politics of policy processes in the context of international agricultural, environment and development issues. A social and institutional perspective is at the centre of his work, which explores the linkages between local knowledge’s and practices and the processes of scientific enquiry, development policy-making and field-level implementation.

Most recently he has been working on the governance of agricultural biotechnology in India and animal health science and policy in Africa, including projects on livestock marketing and foot-and-mouth disease in southern Africa and the international responses to avian influenza.

Ian Scoones, PhD

Vijay Chandru is an academic (professor of engineering and computer science) turned entrepreneur. The vision that drives him is to create successful, world class, technology innovation companies out of India. Strand Life Sciences the company he leads, is an exciting life science informatics company based in Bangalore, India.

In 2001, he also co-founded PicoPeta Simputers which commercialized the Simputer. PicoPeta was acquired by Geodesic in 2006. Chandru is the recipient of several awards and honours:Chandru is the elected President (2009-2012) of Association of Biotech led Enterprises (ABLE), Member,High Panel on Science & Technology for Development at UNESCO, Adjunct Professor at International Centre for Theoretical Studies (TIFR) and Consulting Professor at Stanford University.

Vijay Chandru, PhD

Leo Saldanha is full-time Coordinator of Environment Support Group. He has gained wide-ranging experience in the areas of Environmental Law and Policy, Decentralization, Urban Planning and a variety of Human Rights and Development related issues, working across many sectors for over a decade. He is a keen campaigner on critical environmental and social justice issues and has guided several campaigns demanding evolution of progressive laws and effective action. He has creatively supported various distressed communities to secure justice through public interest litigations and advocacy efforts. He has spearheaded several public interest litigations, many of which have resulted in remarkable judgments. In 2007, he co-authored the book “Green Tapism” critiquing the Environment Impact Notification 2006 along with team members at ESG.

He was the Country Coordinator and Faculty of the "Cities in the 21st Century" and "Health and Community" courses of the International Honors Programme, USA from 2002-2009. He has a background in Environmental Science from St. Joseph's College, Bangalore University and has been invited as a speaker by organizations and universities across the world. In August 2010, he was invited as a speaker at the International Forum on China's Rural Reform in the 12th Five-Year Plan Period organized by the Chinese Institute for Reform and Development, a Chinese Government think-tank for reform in policy decision-making. In recognition of his contribution to environmental and social justice efforts, Association for India's Development, USA, has made him a Saathi.

Leo F.Saldanha

Jagadish Mittur has more than 30 years of experience in academia and industry relevant to life sciences, spreading across several areas of biotechnology. His experience encompasses both research and development and over the last 12 years he has focused on agricultural biotechnology. After working most recently with Monsanto and Avesthagen, he is at present a consultant on Biotechnology with Academia and Industry.

Jagadish Mittur, PhD

Satya Dash joined ABLE in July 2010. As the COO, he leads ABLE’s advocacy efforts to represent the interests of the Indian biotechnology industry to the Indian government, investors and academia. He is responsible for overall long-term road mapping and strategy formulation for ABLE. Previously he was at University of Cambridge (at Institute for Manufacturing and Judge Business School).

Satya Dash, PhD

Chirantan Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in Corporate Strategy and Policy at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He works on issues of intellectual property, innovation and entrepreneurship in global healthcare markets. His research is funded by a variety of international institutions such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, The Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation in the United States and the World Bank. He has published in various international outlets and also contributed a book chapter around Asian Pharmaceuticals from the Brookings Press. Before his doctoral education, he worked as a business journalist with the Economic Times.

Chirantan Chatterjee, PhD

Ravi Kumar is the founder of XCyton and serves as its Chairman and Managing Director. He has been instrumental in developing and successfully launching all of XCyton’s products. He was earlier with Astra Research Centre and at Christian Medical College, Vellore.

B.V. Ravi Kumar, MBBS, PhD

Dhananjay Patankar is Vice President – Biologics, Syngene International Limited, where he heads a premier contract services organization involved in discovery, development and manufacturing for the global bio/pharmaceutical industry in the area of recombinant proteins and monoclonal antibodies.

He specializes in the field of Biosimilars – development, regulation, market scenario and has technical expertise in biopharmaceutical CMC development and GMP-compliant and cost-efficient manufacturing operations to global standards. He has previously been a senior Scientist at the Wockhardt Research Centre.

Dhananjay Patankar, PhD

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The Centre for Public Policy (CPP) is a leading policy think tank engaged in research, teaching, training and capacity building. The Centre was established in 2000 through a partnership between the Department of Personnel Training (DoPT), Government of India, Government of Karnataka, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and IIM Bangalore. Since its inception the CPP has worked on improving governance and influencing public policy in India.The Centre functions with autonomy and independence, and aspires to lead policy thinking and praxis in India, promoting equitable, inclusive and sustainable solutions to emergent problems.

The CPP’s work in public policy is continuously being strengthened through strong collaborative networks and partnerships with other policy think tanks, policy professionals and practitioners around the world. It has been designated as a Centre of Excellence by the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India.

CPP

Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises - ABLE is a not-for-profit, pan-India forum that represents the Indian Biotechnology Sector. It was launched in April 2003, after industry leaders felt a need to form an exclusive forum to represent the Indian Biotechnology Sector.

ABLE has members from all across India representing all verticals of the sector like agribiotech, bio-pharma, industrial biotech, bioinformatics, investment banks and venture capital firms, leading research and academic institutes and law firms and equipment suppliers. ABLE thus catalyses a symbiotic interface between the industry, the government, academic and research institutes and domestic and international investors.

ABLE

Started in April 2006 with the aim of enhancing educational links between India and the UK, over the last five years, UKIERI has played a pivotal role in establishing stronger educational relationships between the two countries. In recognition of the substantial achievements and building on the success of this initiative, the programme has been extended for 5 years from 2011 to 2016. The extension was announced by the UK Prime Minister Mr. David Cameron and Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in July 2010.

The UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI)

The STEPS Centre was established to focus on the relationship between environmental change and society and to bring social science expertise to bear on global environmental research. It is a joint venture between researchers from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU) programme at the University of Sussex. The STEPS Centre originally concentrated on major global environmental issues such as climate change and biodiversity and now increasingly focuses its attention to sustainable development.

STEPS Centre