Biocon - Awards and Achievements

Awards and Achievements

Biocon claims to have picked up the following awards and achievements,:

2010:
Bio-Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Healthcare Sector at Bangalore Bio

2009:
- Among Top 20 Indian companies in Forbes ‘Best Under A Billion’ list
- Bio-Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Healthcare Sector at Bangalore Bio
- Bio-Excellence Award for outstanding achievement in the Biotech Service Sector at Bangalore Bio for Syngene IDMA ‘Best Patent of the year’ award
- BIOMAb EGFR voted ‘Bio-Spectrum Asia-Pacific Product of the year’, 2008
- BioSingapore Asia Pacific Biotechnology Award for Best Listed Company

2008:
- Ranked among the top 20 global biotechnology companies (Source: Med Ad News, June 2008)
- 7th largest biotech employer in the world (Source: Med Ad News, June 2008)

2007:
‘BioServices Company of the Year’ for Syngene, BIOMAb EGFR wins ‘Product of the Year’, BioSpectrum Awards

2006:
Best IT User Award in the Pharmaceutical Sector, NASSCOM

2004:
- India's first and No. 1 biotech company with a global ranking of 16 (Source: Biospectrum, July 2004)
- India's top 5 Life Sciences companies (at close of trade as on July 30, 2004)
- Best Reinvention of HR Function Award, Indira Group, Mumbai
- Best Employer of India Award, Hewitt

2003:
- Bio-Business Award for bio-entrepreneurship, Rabo India
- Express Pharma Pulse Award for excellence in the pharmaceutical industry

2001:
- Biotech Product, Process Development and Commercialisation Award, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India

2000:
- Technology Pioneer Recognition, World Economic Forum 1985:
- Export Performance Award, Karnataka State Financial Corporation (KSFC)
- National Award for Best Small Industry, Government of India

Firsts

Set up in 1978, Biocon is India's first biotech company.

• First Indian biotech company to receive US funding for proprietary technologies (1989)
• Sets up India's first clinical research organization, Clinigene (2000)
• First Indian company to be approved by US FDA for the manufacture of lovastatin, a cholesterol-lowering molecule (2001)
• First company worldwide to develop human insulin on a Pichia expression system (2003)
• Biocon enters the stock market with its IPO and becomes only the second Indian company to cross the $1-billion mark on the day of listing (2004)
• Launches India’s first cancer drug, BIOMAb EGFR (2006)
• First Indian company to manufacture and export enzymes to USA and Europe
• India’s largest producer and exporter of enzymes
• Releases country’s first 24-hour diabetes drug, Glargine (2009)
• First biotech company to receive ISO 9001 certification in India
• Syngene is country’s first custom research company in drug discovery