Department of Biotechnology (DBT) jointly with Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) is organizing a national series of six regulatory workshops across the nation on facilitating resolution of regulatory concerns faced by the innovators in India.

This workshop series is being conducted by the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) and Clinical Development Services Agency (CDSA).

Three workshops in the series have been conducted in New Delhi, Pune and Bengaluru. The fourth in this series is being organized on 29th May 2019 at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Hyderabad.

This workshop series aims to facilitate Make in India drive by helping the innovators. It will offer an opportunity to the innovators to interact with the regulators to resolve their regulatory issues thereby facilitating them to seek market authorization. Deliberations will be on various regulatory pathways applicable for the development of the new drugs, biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, medical devices & IVD kits, phytopharmaceuticals from discovery to commercialization.

It is intended to prove beneficial for innovators, personnel working in the government national laboratories, academics and research institutions, participants from non-governmental institutions, startups, SMEs, MSMEs, industry, researchers etc.