BITS Pilani Dr Reddy's Laboratories Collaboration Marching forward

PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 24, 2007 – Since 1979, the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani has been participating in the human resources development activities of the industries through several degree programmes by integrating the working environment of the employees with the learning environment required by the Institute.

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd (DRL) which has recently signed on as the first participant in United States Pharmacopoeia's (USP) Pharmaceutical Ingredient Verification Programme is a global, vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with a presence across the value chain, producing and delivering safe, innovative, and high quality finished dosage forms, active pharmaceutical ingredients and biological products, which are marketed to over 100 countries including US, Europe, Russia, Asia Pacific, India and China. DRL conducts NCE drug discovery research in the areas of metabolic disorders, cardiovascular indications and infectious diseases as well as Custom Pharmaceutical services (CPS). Its drug discovery effort is carried out at its research facilities in Atlanta, USA, and in Hyderabad, India.

On 19th August 2000, BITS Pilani and Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd Hyderabad entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the objective of fostering collaboration between the two institutions for promoting educational and research activities in the areas of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Biotechnology. Under this collaboration, DRL sponsors its employees with BSc qualification to undergo a 3 year MSc (Tech) Pharmaceutical Chemistry Program and with BPharm qualification to undergo a 2 year MS Pharmaceutical Operations and Management Program. The Work Integrated Learning focused curriculum is customized to meet the HRD needs of Dr Reddy's Lab. As of December 2006, 129 employees from DRL have successfully completed the MSc (Tech) Program and 17 employees the MS Program.

On April 24, 2007, further 31 employees who have completed the MSc(Tech) Program in February 2007, were awarded the certificates in a colourful function graced by Dr LK Maheshwari the Vice Chancellor of BITS Pilani and Dr Anji Reddy Chairman of DRL at Hotel Taj Residency, Visakapatnam.

Birla Institute of Technology and Science "BITS", Pilani Rajasthan is a Leading University in India offering degrees in Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Sciences, Engineering Technology, Information Systems, General Studies, Finance, etc presently at Pilani, Dubai, Goa campuses and in the near future at Hyderabad campus. BITS Pilani also offers an array of work integrated learning programmes for HRD of a vast spectrum of Indian corporates.