Highlights from the first edition
Modi Prix Galien India 2024

The First edition of the Modi Prix Galien India Awards and Forum was presented by the Gujar Mal Modi Science Foundation and its President Satish Kumar Modi.

India’s Minister of Health and Family Welfare bestowed the first Modi Prix Galien Prizes, affirming the government’s strategic focus and keen emphasis on the burgeoning life science sector, writes Former DBT Secretary Dr. Manju Sharma. Read about it in CNBC.

2024 MODI PRIX GALIEN INDIA

dropdown-iconBest Startup / Digital Health Solution

Neowarm - Parisodhana Technologies

dropdown-iconBest Medical Technology

Pichia Pastoris platform - Biocon Biologics

dropdown-iconBest Product for Rare / Orphan Diseases

CAR-T Cell Therapy - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

dropdown-iconBest Biotechnology Product

Trinbelimab - BSV

dropdown-iconBest Academic / Public Sector

NeuroMentor - All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) & Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
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India’s Health Minister with Modi Prix Galien India Laureates 2024
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(l-r): Rajyalakshmi Rao, Sir Satish Modi, Prof. Satya Pal Singh Baghel, Honorable Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare

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Prof. Paramjit Khurana, Member Secretary
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(l-r): Bruno Cohen, Cynthia Ekberg Tsai
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A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
GALIEN FORUM INDIA 2024
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Panel 2: Generational health is not possible without women’s health
(l-r): Aishwarya Ravi, Sanskriti Thakur (moderator), Surbhi Modi, Niveditha Viswanathan

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Panel 3: Addressing pandemics through partnerships
(l-r): Krishna Sarma (moderator), Thomas Cueni, Sudharshan Jain, Vignesh Shivnath, Jasdeep Singh Sood, Rajinder Suri

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Panel 4: The next frontier in global medicine: advancements in medicine, digital solutions, and biotechnology
(l-r): Shuchin Bajaj, Pushpanjali R. Chawla, Stuti Jalan (Moderator), Shailja Mittal, Peter Pushparaj

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Panel 1: Scaling up GenAI in life sciences: from pilots to production
(l-r): Saurabh Jain (moderator), Sridhar Anjanappa, Anirudh Ranganathan, Suresh Subramanian

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Galien Forum India 2024
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(l-r): Sir Satish Modi, Bruno Cohen, Anil Khanna
SUBMISSION PROCESS

Submission is a simple, easy process. A quick fact sheet and explanatory video of the submission process is available on demand.

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India: A key global player in the battle against disease
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As early as the sixth century BC, Sushruta, recognized as the “father of surgery” in ancient India, introduced pioneering operations and healing techniques.

He authored Sushruta-samhita, the first important treatise on surgery in the country providing a crucial source of information on matters of surgery, toxicology, pharmacology and pediatrics.

With its long and rich history, the India of today has the academic and scientific infrastructure, the R&D and technology transfer frameworks, the entrepreneurship and the funding to predict double digit growth rates in our current decade. It is no wonder that the world is looking at India with anticipation for new breakthroughs in health.

Prix Galien salutes the nation that has forged a formidable growth strategy in the life science sector since 1970, the year Prix Galien was founded, to become the “World’s Pharmacy” as it is often referred to today. India’s thriving life science sector represents the highest number of FDA approved production facilities outside the US and the country only continues to grow.

The Prix Galien India will be fundamental in:

  1. Recognizing and promoting excellence and through recognition, while enhancing and encouraging a cycle of scientific research excellence and innovation.
  2. Fostering a culture of innovation which values creative thinking, risk taking and the development of solutions that address societal challenges and contribute to economic growth.
  3. Showcasing India’s scientific excellence and potential on the international stage.

We look forward to inducting India’s distinguished innovators to the Galien Foundation Hall of Fame in 2025. The winners will join an illustrious list of  innovations benefitting human health since the prize’s inception in France in 1970. It is with pride that the Galien Foundation chronicles and honors the winning teams and encourages individuals having working on breakthrough products, devices and solution to become Foundation members and thus perpetuate the importance of their innovation to the advancement of human health.

Modi Prix Galien India Awards Committee

The Prix Galien India Awards committee include 14 esteemed leaders in the life sciences in India. The committee is a neutral body and follows the Prix Galien India Charter in selecting the best of the best in biopharmaceutical research and development. The selection committee will be supported by two sub-comittees that will short list finalists to the competition.

Dr Renu Swarup

COMMITTEE CHAIR:

Dr Renu Swarup, Former Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, New Delhi, India

Professor Manju Sharma

In memory of Prof Manju Sharma, Inaugural Modi Prix Galien India Committee Chair; Former Secretary to the Govt. of India, Department of Biotechnology. Chair New Initiative, NASI, Allahabad

We are deeply saddened by the passing of our beloved Professor Manju Sharma this past October 31, 2024. Pr. Sharma was a truly wonderful and brilliant leader. The global Galien Foundation community will deeply miss her.

JURY MEMBERS:

Dr Alok Dhawan, Centre for Biomedical Research, Lucknow

Shri Anil Khanna, Sr. Vice President, GM Modi Science Foundation, New Delhi; Honorary Member for Ministry of Food & processing

Pr Paramjit Khurana, Member Secretary

Dr Indranil Manna, President, Indian National Academy of Engineering

Dr Narinder Kr. Mehra, Vice-President - International Affairs

Dr Debasisa Mohanty, Director, National Institute of Immunology, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India

Pr Ashwani Nangia, Department of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad

Dr Himanshu Pathak, President, National Academy of Agriculture Sciences (NAAS)

Dr Ram Gopal Rao, Vice Chancellor for the Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani

Dr Shiv Kumar Sarin, President, National Academy of Medical Sciences

Pr Anurag Sharma, Emeritus Professor of Optics and Photonics and Physics at IIT Delhi – Member Secretary

Dr Sanjay Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd., Pune

Dr Rohit Srivastava, IIT- Mumbai

Dr Umesh Waghmare, President, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore

Sub-committee in the categories Best Biotechnology Product and Best Product for Orphan/Rare Disease

Pr Sudha Bhattacharya, INSA Senior Scientist at Ashoka University, Sonipat; Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (Bengaluru), Indian National Science Academy (New Delhi), and National Academy of Sciences (Allahabad)

Pr Alok Dhawan, Director, Centre of BioMedical Research, Lucknow

Pr Paramjit Khurana, South Campus, University of Delhi – Convenor

Pr Bhaskar Naryan, Director CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research

Dr Shashi Bala Singh, Director, NIPER, Hyderabad

Pr Nikhil Tandon, Professor and Chair of the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (New Delhi)

Pr Sudhanshu Vrati, Founder Dean of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute Regional Centre for Biotechnology; Professor at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology; Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the National Academy of Sciences, India, and the Indian Academy of Science (Faridabad)

Sub-committee in the categories Best Medical Technology (including diagnostics tools), Best StartUp, Best Digital Health Solution and Best Incubator-Accelerator

Pr Madhu Dikshit, CDRI, Lucknow

Pr Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Fellow of all the 3 science academies in India, namely Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India;  Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, Indian Academy of Neurosciences and Third World Academy of Sciences, Bangalore

Dr Jitendra Sharma, Managing Director & Founder CEO of Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone;  Founder Executive Director of Kalam Institute of Health Technology; Adjunct lecturer at University of Adelaide, Australia; Chairman of Indian Biomedical Skill Council and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Niti Aayog, Govt. of India. Member of Strategic Advisory Group of Experts constituted by World Health Organization Headquarters, Geneva for Medical Devices; AMTZ Campus, Visakhapatnam

Dr Sanjeev Sinha, Head of Department of Medicine, AIIMS

Dr Rohit Srivastavaa, Himanshu Patel Chair Professor in the Department of BSBE, IIT Bombay

Dr Mrutyunjay Suar, Director General of R&D and Innovation at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar and CEO of KIIT Technology Business Incubator; Chairman of Bhubaneswar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster Foundation

Dr K.R. Suresh Nair, Chief Technology Advisor to Foundation for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, an initiative of Tata Trust

Dr Premnath Venugopalan, Head of NCL Innovations at CSIR-NCL and Founder Director of Venture Center (National award winning inventive enterprises and deep tech incubator); Chemical engineer and an alumnus of MIT in the US, IIT-Bombay (Pune)

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