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DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT
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This report is based primarily on an interactive stakeholder workshop hosted in March 2009 as
a joint enterprise of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FICCI), the
Department of Pharmaceuticals, Government of India and the Observer Research Foundation
2 (ORF) Delhi . Participants representing a wide cross-section of stakeholders including industry,
government, medical practice, ethics boards, clinical research organizations, and hospitals
attended. The objective of all the workshops was to discuss and debate the existing provisions,
gaps and the policy guidelines that need to be developed and the actions to be taken by the
different stakeholders in the drug discovery and development industry to make it grow in an
efficient and ethical way. A summary of the main issues and a set of recommendations are
being included here. This will highlight concerns across the spectrum of stakeholders and will
provide policy makers and other stakeholders with a roadmap of issues to consider in
fashioning any future approach. The workshops did not vote on the recommendations.
However, a number of issues did have broad agreement and are presented here as
recommendations for further action.