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tor’s desk Biotechnology is extremely important in the Pharmaceutical Research and Development business. In today's world, the biopharmaceutical business accounts for 15% of all bounce. Biotechnology is the science that combines with technology utilised in the pharmaceutical sector, and it has been shown to be beneficial, particularly in the production of genetic testing and immunizations. Biotechnology has aided the pharmaceutical sector in the correct manufacture of vaccines and medications. Biotechnology has aided the pharmaceutical sector in the creation of better procedures, new products, and new technologies to improve old techniques. Thus, when joined with the pharmaceutical business, biotechnology has the potential to provide a big number of employment on a global scale. Featuring for The Lifesciences Magazine's this issue of the The Most Recommended Biotech Companies to Look Out For are the stories of such successful businesses that have made it through every odd storm and made it to the top. For the Cover Story read about - Sisco Research Laboratories - In our target markets, there has always been a very strong global mindset that 'products manufactured in the West are superior'. Until the year 2000, scientists refused to believe that advanced chemical molecules could be manufactured anywhere except the USA or Europe. We've spent painstaking decades educating the industry that Asia has been the true manufacturing hub of all specialized chemicals for the last few decades. Initiatives like the Make-In-India, BIRAC, National Biopharma Vision, and others have come a tad late in the growth story of our country. Nevertheless, the next 5-10 years are critical. Micro-attention to all our operations gives us an edge over our competitors. Training, coaching, and continuous motivation lead to collaborative work environments. As a 3rd generation Entrepreneur, I cannot stress the importance of this in direct correlation to the success of any Company. Natura Biotechnol - Providentially, around that time, I came in contact with one of my acquaintances who also appeared to be thinking along the same lines. Soon, a business idea developed and a Company in the name and style of ' Natura Biotechnol Private Limited' was floated. The Natura Biotechnol was launched in the year 2012-13 with women as the initial promoters. They along with us are Directors in the Company and constitute an effective Board that manages the Company. Natura Biotechnol is focusing on marketing herbal extracts, nutraceuticals, Dietary supplements, cosmeceuticals, etc. Although all types of herbal extracts are supplied by us in different forms and variants, Natura Biotechnol concentrates on a bulk supply of Herbal extract as an ingredient. We have a very aggressive and proactive marketing team in place. Think Biosolution - Think Biosolution was founded in March 2016 in Dublin, Ireland, and is now a global innovation leader in building customized early warning score-based triaging platforms for assisted living facilities and hospital groups in the USA. Our two current platforms are the At-home COVID-19 Monitoring Platform and the At-home Geriatric Care Platform. Think Biosolution currently uses third-party point of care medical devices like pulse oximeters and blood pressure monitors to predict the onset of a chronic condition for a given patient. Vocera Communication - Vocera Communications was founded in 2000 by three entrepreneurs and co-workers looking for a better way to connect and collaborate. What they did forever changed the way people communicate in hospitals and other mission-critical environments. In 2002, the company shipped the first hands-free, voice-controlled Vocera Badge. At the time, yelling down hospital halls, loud overhead paging, and call-and-wait systems with landline phones were the most common modes of care team communication. The Badge made it much easier, faster and quieter to communicate. Shalmali Shalmali W.
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Leaders in Spotlight For the Cover Story read about - new and varied products. We are equally aggressive on the export front, supplying to Sisco Research Laboratories - In our target countries like the USA, EU nations, UAE, GULF, markets, there has always been a very strong etc. global mindset that 'products manufactured in the West are superior'. Think Biosolution - Think Biosolution was Until the year 2000, scientists refused to believe founded in March 2016 in Dublin, Ireland, and is that advanced chemical molecules could be now a global innovation leader in building manufactured anywhere except the USA or customized early warning score-based triaging Europe. We've spent painstaking decades platforms for assisted living facilities and hospital educating the industry that Asia has been the true groups in the USA. Our two current platforms are manufacturing hub of all specialized chemicals for the At-home COVID-19 Monitoring Platform and the last few decades. Initiatives like the Make-In- the At-home Geriatric Care Platform. Think India, BIRAC, National Biopharma Vision, and Biosolution currently uses third-party point of care others have come a tad late in the growth story of medical devices like pulse oximeters and blood our country. Nevertheless, the next 5-10 years are pressure monitors to predict the onset of a chronic critical. condition for a given patient. Micro-attention to all our operations gives us an Vocera Communication - Vocera edge over our competitors. Training, coaching, and Communications was founded in 2000 by three continuous motivation lead to collaborative work entrepreneurs and co-workers looking for a better environments. As a 3rd generation Entrepreneur, I way to connect and collaborate. What they did cannot stress the importance of this in direct forever changed the way people communicate in correlation to the success of any Company. hospitals and other mission-critical environments. Natura Biotechnol - Providentially, around that In 2002, the company shipped the first hands-free, time, I came in contact with one of my voice-controlled Vocera Badge. At the time, acquaintances who also appeared to be thinking yelling down hospital halls, loud overhead paging, along the same lines. Soon, a business idea and call-and-wait systems with landline phones developed and a Company in the name and style of were the most common modes of care team ' Natura Biotechnol Private Limited' was floated. communication. The Badge made it much easier, The Natura Biotechnol was launched in the year faster and quieter to communicate. 2012-13 with women as the initial promoters. They along with us are Directors in the Company Vocera Communications has been leading the way and constitute an effective Board that manages the in voice solutions technology for more than 20 Company. years, striving to simplify workflows and improve the day-to-day lives of our customers and the Natura Biotechnol is focusing on marketing people they serve. Some of the technologies the herbal extracts, nutraceuticals, Dietary company originally embraced, like wireless and supplements, cosmeceuticals, etc. Although all speech recognition, are now becoming types of herbal extracts are supplied by us in mainstream. Over the last 20 years, the use of different forms and variants, Natura Biotechnol speech recognition has evolved tremendously. concentrates on a bulk supply of Herbal extract as an ingredient. We have a very aggressive and proactive marketing team in place. We keep a constant vigil on the markets to explore new opportunities for the development and supply of
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COVERSTORY THINK BIOSOLUTION CREATING SPECIALIZED MONITORING PLATFORMS SHOURJYA SANYAL CEO www.thelifesciencesmagazine.com | 13
For Telehealth businesses and designed with the potential to make a Provider organizations, Think significant influence on a number of Biosolution, an original design markets, including regulated medical manufacturer (ODM) and technology devices, smart clothing, and provider, creates specialized Remote professional athlete monitoring. But Patient Monitoring platforms. finding the right market, i.e., long-term care institutions in the USA, took us Tell us more about it in this interview two years. The impact of our target with Shourjya Sanyal, the CEO of clients on KPIs for patient outcomes, Think Biosolution. cost savings, and an increase in revenue required another two years for Describe Think Biosolution for us. us to assess. A global innovation leader in creating specialized early warning score-based Which event precipitated the triaging solutions for assisted living expansion of Think Biosolution? homes and hospital groups in the USA, We were able to spark growth by Think Biosolution was established in recognising the effects of our platform March 2016 in Dublin, Ireland. The At- on patient outcomes, financial savings, Home COVID-19 Monitoring Platform and revenue growth for long-term care and the At-Home Geriatric Care facilities. Assisted living, skilled Platform are the two platforms we now nursing facilities, post-hospitalization offer. Currently, Think Biosolution uses care, and at-home care are all examples blood pressure monitors and pulse of long-term care institutions. oximeters, which are third-party point- of-care medical devices, to forecast the The COVID-19 pandemic was the commencement of a patient's chronic other significant factor. The pandemic disease. created an urgent need for provider organizations to implement patient Our upcoming Chronic Disease monitoring programmes for COVID- Prevention platform, which is 19 individuals who were at risk, anticipated to go live in early 2023, suspected, or proven. will assist patients in halting the development of new episodes of Since their creation, Think Biosolution eighteen distinct chronic illnesses. The graphs have undergone what changes? platform will cut down on both the Could you provide some statistics? quantity of hospital visits and the With four healthcare facility partners, length of patient stays. A new category Think Biosolution has already of preventative care delivery will be conducted pilot launches of its current introduced with a large decrease in platforms and generated annual insurance rates thanks to this market- recurring revenue (ARR) of €408,012 creating innovation, which will directly in the third quarter of 2020. Payment affect national healthcare authorities in orders of €3,412,200 have been placed the EU and health insurance companies with Think Biosolution's current in the USA. business partners and are due to be fulfilled by Q3 2021. What difficulties did you initially encounter? What accounts for Think Finding a solid product-market fit for Biosolution's enduring success? our technology was the largest obstacle Our team has the ideal combination of we faced. Our multiparameter wearable engineering creativity and sales and medical device QuasaRTM was marketing expertise. This harmony has 14 | Americas Edition 2022
enabled us to repeatedly uncover a small but sizable market facilities up-to-the-minute information on capacity, that is untapped by any of our rivals. condition, and unfinished duties, this software functions as a virtual doctor and uses early warning score-based In the USA, there are 295 doctors for every 100,000 people. triaging. As a result, patients with serious and critical symptoms receive treatment in long-term care institutions. Our The search for a product-market fit is an entrepreneur's first platforms assist patients in managing the progression of priority. pre-existing chronic diseases and managing the None of our rivals are able to foresee the beginning of development of new chronic ailments, hence reducing the chronic illnesses is centred on treating individual chronic frequency of hospital visits and length of hospital stays. conditions. Examples include Vivify, Datos Health (Cardiology and Oncology), and Propeller Health What goods and services does Think Biosolution (Respiratory) (Health Cardiology and Hypertension). concentrate on? How do your services differ from those offered by competitors? How do you make the decision to improve Think The At-Home COVID-19 Monitoring Platform and the At- Biosolution's goods and services? Home Geriatric Care Platform are the two platforms we The QuasaRTM gadget is now receiving regulatory now offer. In order to give administrators of long-term care www.thelifesciencesmagazine.com | 15
approval from Think Biosolution. The technology will be able to deliver wearable medical device QuasaRTM automated triaging for high-risk can measure more biometric patients in long-term care institutions parameters than any other product on or at home using these early warning the market (heart rate, heart rate scores. A new category of preventative variability, respiratory rate, blood care delivery will be introduced with a oxygen saturation, blood pressure, large decrease in insurance rates thanks movement, location, and temperature). to this market-creating innovation, When patients begin using QuasaRTM which will directly affect national to manage a single chronic ailment, the healthcare authorities in the EU and QuasaRTM device will monitor them health insurance companies in the for the onset of new chronic conditions USA. by integrating these biometric information. Our QuasaRTM device- What obligations do you believe an based platform for chronic disease entrepreneur has? prevention is expected to debut in early The search for a product-market fit is 2023. an entrepreneur's first priority. Building a capable team and ensuring that the Are there any new items or services staff is constantly attentive to the on the list? Do you have anything demands of the customer are examples exciting to share? of secondary duties. Our game-changing breakthrough consists of 18 patented early warning Please provide us a brief overview of scores for specific diseases that can your professional background. stop the emergence of half of all 2013 saw the co-founding of Digital chronic illnesses now in existence. Our Self Technology, Ireland. I received the At-home Chronic Disease Prevention Cruickshank High Achieving Merit 16 | Americas Edition 2022
Award from Enterprise Ireland in 2014 €350,000 coming from Luminate, the For the past seventeen years, our and the CASL ACE Award from largest optics accelerator in the world director of sales served as senior vice Deloitte in 2016. I also earned the with headquarters in Rochester, NY, president of sales for a reputable KVPY fellowship from the Indian and €150,000 coming from the EU- remote patient monitoring business. government in 2007 and was one of the funded digital health accelerator DIGI- Prior to this, top board members from youngest fellows at the Lindau Nobel B-CUBE. The Irish Laboratory the private and public health insurance Laureate Students' Alumni Meet in Awards' Healthcare Laboratory of the sectors in the USA worked with our Germany in 2009. Between 2016 and Year Winner in 2020, Roche's Brain board of advisors. 2019, I also taught data science at the Catalyst Pitch's Brain Catalyst Prize, Digital Skills Academy in Ireland. I Data.gov.ie's Open Data Engagement What is your favourite book, please? now hold positions with the CHQI's Fund, StartUs Insights' \"5 Top And, if you have a favourite section, Standard Committee for Remote Telemedicine Startups Impacting The what is it? Patient Monitoring Standard and the Healthcare Industry,\" Analytics I, Robot by Isaac Asimov and What If? World Health Organization's Roster of Insight's \"The 10 Most Disruptive AI by Randall Munroe are two of my Experts, Digital Health Technical Companies in Healthcare,\" and The favourite novels. Advisory Board. Irish Laboratory Awards' \"Healthcare Laboratory of the Year Winner\" were I read a few novels a week on average I co-founded Think Biosolution with among the numerous honours that since I love to read. The genres of my best college mate in 2016, Think Biosolution received business, science fiction, and fiction immediately following my Ph.D. From are a few of mine. I appreciate reading the beginning, our goal was to use How do you care for your staff? books because it enables me to innovation to lower health care costs. What distinguishes your team? comprehend several points of view regarding a particular subject. What are your entrepreneurial The management team's top focus is journey's major accomplishments? the welfare of our personnel. Along Who is the one person you most A seed investment of €1.2 million was with offering them industry-leading admire? raised by Think Biosolution, with benefits like stock options, health The Wikimedia Foundation's founders, insurance, paid time off, etc., we also Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales, are place a strong emphasis on their also role models for me. personal development through ongoing training, certifications, and institute Whose company success story affiliations in the industries in which inspires you the most? they work. Elon Mask's capacity to apply technology to improve people's lives The art of medicine is to make the inspires me. patient laugh while nature heals the illness. Continuous watchfulness: A need or a tactic? Please express your opinions. Voltaire Constant watchfulness is, in my opinion, a necessity for SMEs and a A varied group of engineers, strategy for scale-ups. The ones who physicians, and regulatory specialists can make this transformation happen at have been working as Think the appropriate time are prosperous Biosolution over the past four years in businesspeople. the medical device sector. In both the There is a rat race going on. How are US and EU markets, our management you handling that? team has successfully developed and A strong founding team is essential to implemented disease prevention utilising every setback as a chance for platforms. The technical standard for learning and development. Remote Patient Monitoring with CHQI in the USA was written by our CEO. www.thelifesciencesmagazine.com | 17
THE PROCESS OF BUILDING ENERGY CONSERVATION DESIGNS 20 | Americas Edition 2022
All countries, including those with hot climates, must performance of a building throughout its utilization phase is save energy in buildings, particularly in high-rise heavily influenced by the distance between structures. The office and commercial buildings. Traditional use of solar rays is influenced by the fact that a building is building designs geared at reducing external heat gains can inside the shadowing space of adjacent structures, which save 15 to 20 percent of energy. Daylighting design offers a lot increases energy consumption. Building spaces must be at of promise for saving energy in the lighting industry and least as tall as the tallest shadow height of neighboring requires further consideration. For hot-dry and composite structures in order to take advantage of solar radiation. climates, computer simulation studies on the influence of Besides, the position and distance of other buildings affect the various design factors on building energy consumption speed and direction of wind on building, and this impacts the should also be conducted. The majority of passive cooling energy performance of building techniques require further improvement in order to be practical and widely accepted. Building form Buildings that are energy efficient are constructed or The geometrical variables that make up a building, such as the upgraded to get the most work out of the energy that is given to proportion of building length to building depth in the plan, them by taking efforts to limit energy loss, such as reducing building height, type of roof, its gradient, front gradient, and heat loss through the building envelope. Energy efficient bossages, can be used to define the shape of the building, houses, whether remodeled to be more efficient or designed which is a significant factor affecting heat loss and gain. with energy efficiency in mind, provide a slew of advantages. Depending on the proportion of the surfaces composing the Homes that are energy efficient are less expensive to run, surroundings to volume, the building's heat loss-gain may more comfortable to live in, and better for the environment. increase or decrease. Form, volume surface rate, and frontal movements all have an impact on a building's energy Buildings offer enormous energy-saving potential. To realize performance. The geometrical shape of a structure and its this enormous potential, some policies and actions to increase energy performance are inextricably linked. building efficiency are required. Every phase of a building's life cycle involves energy usage. However, the most essential It was discovered in the investigations that varied results were part of the life cycle is the use and maintenance of structures, achieved in the energy performance of masses with the same which consumes the most energy. The biggest energy volume but distinct shapes. The surface area of the masses consumption happens during the utilization stage of a was computed to have the same volume but varied shapes. building's life cycle. This is due to the fact that this stage lasts The cube's surface, which was set to 100, was used as a significantly longer than the others, and the comfort levels reference. required for human health and productivity must be met during this time. As a result, the utilization stage should be In places with varying climatic conditions, the design of the taken into account in energy-efficient building designs. structure is critical. Compact shapes that limit heat loss should Renewable energy sources should be prioritized over fossil- be employed in cold climatic locations. Compact shapes and based energy sources to minimize energy consumption courtyards should be employed in hot-dry climatic zones to throughout the construction process. The usage of renewable reduce heat gain and create shaded and cool living places. energy sources should be prioritized. The usage of active and Long and thin shapes with the long side towards the direction passive systems, in particular, should be recognized. In of the prevailing wind provide for optimal cross-ventilation in building design, energy simulation programs should be hot-humid climatic zones. Compact shapes, which are more employed. flexible than forms utilized in cold temperature zones, should be employed in warm climates. The process involved in building energy conservation designs includes; Building plan and appropriate space organization Site Planning Building plan and shapes should be effective in energy conservation. Therefore, buildings should be formed to The distance between buildings is an essential design ensure minimum heat gain in warm seasons and maximum in component in building design that impacts solar energy cold. Due to simple plan types such as square or rectangle consumption, wind direction, and speed in the artificial having a reduced surface area, their heat-loss and -gain are environment. Buildings should be treated as a whole with also reduced. Smaller buildings, where internal space has their surroundings during the design process. The energy been used efficiently, use less energy as they can be heated, cooled, and illuminated more efficiently than larger buildings. www.thelifesciencesmagazine.com | 21
According to the results of the research called “Construction energy expenditures. To manage the intake of air, heat, cold, and Energy” performed by German Ministry of Research and and light, the building's skin acts as a filter between internal Technology, the place of space in the organization of plan is and external environments. In the winter, heat loss should be more efficient than the orientation of space with respect to minimized, while in the summer, heat gain should be energy consumption. The energy requirement of buildings minimized. can be reduced by the internal layout of the design. By making the best use of the sun's radiation, the need for heating energy Energy-efficient landscape design can be reduced. These communal areas require more heating, whereas spaces with a lower heating requirement such as the It is feasible to save 30% on energy costs for heating and pantry, bathroom, and toilet can be used as buffer areas, cooling throughout the summer and winter seasons by using reducing heat transfer to the exterior by placing these in areas an accurate and energy-conscious landscape design. of heat-loss. Spaces such as sun rooms, if located on south façades of buildings, also contribute to heating of the building The cooling effect of outdoor and grass floors is due to vapor and energy conservation, by storing solar radiation transmission. Materials that store heat, such as asphalt, continue to expand heat after the sun sets, increasing Building envelope nighttime radiations. Using materials that retain heat and reflect light little, as well as screening them from direct solar The components that divide the building (conditioned space) rays, are some of the steps to take in order to decrease cooling from the outside and allow thermal energy to pass into or out expenses. of it are referred to as the building envelope. It has a significant influence on energy usage as an indoor and outdoor The energy conserving landscape strategies depend on a reagent. While the cost of creating a building envelope region. These landscaping strategies are listed by the region accounts for 15–40% of overall construction expenses, it and in order of importance as shown in accounts for roughly 60% of life cycle costs, particularly 22 | Americas Edition 2022
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COVERSTORY SISCO RESEARCH LABORATORIES AT THE FOREFRONT OF INDIAN RESEARCH AND LABORATORY SPACE SINCE 1975 24 | Americas Edition 2022
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Mr. S.K. Agarwal and his brothers What were your early difficulties? Sisco Research Laboratories was founded Sisco Research Laboratories present in 25 countries by 2003 and Pvt. Ltd. Since 1975, Sisco Research There has always been a strong global had created indigenously dehydrated Laboratories has been a pioneer in the perception in our target markets that culture medium for microbiology and Indian research and laboratory arena. 'things created in the West are fermentation sciences. Mr. Ramesh Sisco Research Laboratories has been superior.' Agarwal, our father, motivated and manufacturing very complicated and strategized this section of Sisco international grade reagents and Scientists hesitated to think that Research Laboratories, and we were biochemicals in India for over 36 sophisticated chemical compounds one of only a few global organisations years, during a period when few other could be synthesised somewhere other to accomplish so. Indian enterprises possessed the than the United States or Europe until technical competence to produce the year 2000. We've spent decades We were looking for a better footing in complex chemical compounds. painstakingly educating the industry biotechnology fields about 2006, that, for the last few decades, Asia has thanks to an increase in biotech start- Their first production facility in been the genuine production centre for ups and a significant rise in financing Mumbai was the first in the country to all specialist chemicals. Initiatives like for biotech initiatives by different create Molecular Biology grade items as Make-In-India, BIRAC, the central government organisations. This for a fraction of the cost of an identical National Biopharma Vision, and others was the year we completed our first imported product. The original list of have arrived a little late in our 100% acquisition of a Chennai-based products included just 200 speciality country's growth narrative. biotech firm. The purchase enabled us biochemicals, but the significant cost Nonetheless, the next 5-10 years will to provide a comprehensive range of differential allowed the cash-strapped be crucial. DNA, RNA, and Protein tools and Indian research scientist to do formed yet another business vertical considerably more with their post- Which event spurred the expansion for our core products. doctoral research projects. of Sisco Research Laboratories? We pioneered the manufacture of This vision is still alive and well today. The Rajiv Gandhi government nanopowder and carbon nanotubes in Except they're now present in 60 established a distinct Department of India in 2009, at a time when the countries, selling over 7000 goods, and Biotechnology (DBT) inside the world was only beginning to use catering to thousands of worldwide Ministry of Science and Technology in buzzwords like 'Nanotech.' Our scientists, enabling them to attain the 1986. India was one of the first present product portfolio makes us the best quality of research while being countries to establish such a only local Indian firm with such a cost-effective. department. Between 1986 and 1994, a diverse product offering. slew of new institutes sprang up, Mr. Surendra Kumar Agarwal/MD, Mr. focusing on plant genome research, It fills us with joy when a growing Akash Agarwal/Director, and Mr. tissue culture, cell culture, DNA cadre of Indian Microbiologists, Vikas Agarwal/Director are the fingerprinting, agricultural crop Biotechnologists, and Nanoscientists cornerstones of Sisco Research science, and medicinal biotechnology. select our world-class goods for their Laboratories' long-standing growth. This was the start of the Indian research and quality control. Through Biotechnology tale. This was the time our Tissue Culture chemicals, we have We reviewed the present industrial when Sisco Research Laboratories aggressively focused our resources landscape and how Sisco Research began to expand. and investments in the last ten years Laboratories is altering the on Renewable Energy goods, biochemical sector throughout the Government-backed research spending Hydroponics (the science of growing world in a conversation with Mr. increased by a factor of ten. Indian plants without soil,' and Aquaponics Akash Agarwal. scientists now got access to several (recirculating nutrients between modern scientific fields due to farmed fish to growing plants improved infrastructure. Initially, these hydroponically). scientists were unwilling to employ an Indian product, preferring \"made in This explains our history and some Germany\" or \"made in the USA\" pivotal moments. products. 26 | Americas Edition 2022
It fills us with joy and even permits same-day shipments We are surrounded by the need to to more than 400 distributors and verify quality and authenticate final “when a growing clients across India. goods, whether in education or medicines, food or cosmetics. cadre of Indian We have steadily grown our human Microbiologists, resources and product offerings Here necessitates the use of Biotechnologists, throughout the years. Sisco Research Laboratory Fine Chemicals, and this Laboratories has grown at a 21% is where our goods and services are and CAGR over the previous five years. used. Nanoscientists The launch of COVID in January 2020 select our world- caused an early slowdown, but we Today, our 'Knowledge Chemicals,' class goods for expect 2021-24 to be years of robust which include biochemicals, biotech their research revenue growth. reagents, nano chemicals, and microbiology solutions, are widely and quality What is the secret of Sisco Research employed to advance science and control. Laboratories' long-term success? improve quality control in the industry. “ Our ability to pay close attention to all of our activities offers us an advantage Our fundamental competency is How have the graphs at Sisco over our competition. Training, inventing and bringing to market Research Laboratories evolved since mentoring, and ongoing motivation all uncommon and difficult-to-find their inception? Could you please contribute to collaborative work items. Our products outperform provide some statistics? settings. As a third generation those of our competitors due to entrepreneur, I cannot emphasise how exclusive technology created by us. Our expansion over the previous five critical this is to the success of any And, while this may seem cliche, it years has been really promising. Sisco business. is the sole reason we have been Research Laboratories has expanded included in over 100,000 journal capital expenditures to modernise our Our contributions have been papers, including the Royal Society research laboratories and improve our recognised several times by industry of Chemistry (RSC), Accounts of logistics and operations. With an luminaries, major industry magazines, Chemical Research, ACS, Science installed capacity of more than 10 and institutional honorary awards. Direct, Elsevier, and others. million SKUs, our Central Warehouse We've had our precious moments, in provides state-of-the-art storage my opinion. How did you decide to expand facilities for our cold-storage goods Sisco Research Laboratories' However, a few of prizes are very dear product/service offerings? to our hearts. One of them was in 2014, when our Founder and Managing The next step is to aspire higher, Director, Mr. S.K Agarwal, received whether it's for flawless service or the 'Indian Achievers Award' for on-shelf availability. Sisco Research Industry Development in the field of Laboratories must also continually CSR and Sustainable Development. adapt to enhance our testing The other was more recent, and we processes in order to meet the most were awarded the coveted title of 'SME recent industry requirements. of the Year 2020' at the SME Chamber Whether it is pharmacopoeial or of India Conclave by Shri R.M. Mishra endotoxin-tested material, essential - Special Secretary and Development aspects testing has always been a Commissioner, Ministry of MSME, requirement of the industry. Government of India. Sisco Research Laboratories sees What products/services does Sisco several prospects in nanotechnology Research Laboratories specialise in? and biological sciences, particularly What distinguishes your services virology as a potentially large from the competition? development sector. We just www.thelifesciencesmagazine.com | 27
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launched a line of monoclonal and Most significantly, we greatly believe the United Arab Emirates, South polyclonal antibodies and are now in investing in Sisco Research Africa, and Brazil. working to increase our production Laboratories' culture and training capabilities for cell culture reagents. initiatives. With so much emphasis on growth in the Life Sciences, Healthcare, and Could you kindly tell us about your Is there any particular experience Biotech industries, global testing rules professional background? you'd want to share with your are getting more severe and thorough. clients? This is where our expertise comes into Sisco Research Laboratories is a play, supporting our optimistic professionally operated family business Because of the diversity of our expectation for further solid at its heart. The board is led by Mr. S.K. clientele, we are unable to provide a development. Agarwal and Mr. Ramesh Agarwal, with single solution. An IIT Research me and Mr. Vikas Agarwal (my brother) Scholar, a QC Scientist at Unilever, Is constant vigilance a requirement handling different elements of Sisco and even an R&D scientist at the or a strategy? Please share your Research Laboratories and projects in Serum Institute of India (SII) or Bharat thoughts. our position as Directors. Biotech are among our clientele. Adaptability has become increasingly I earned my B.E. (Chemical) from D.J During this pandemic, we also vital during this difficult period. Sanghvi College of Engineering in contributed to the diagnostic and For example, having a defined plan has helped us bring our COVID-related Mumbai and my MBA from Case vaccine industries, notably in the solutions into the spotlight. We have served as important KSM (Key Western Reserve University in creation of Covaxin and the many Starting Material) providers for over 12 COVID-VTM, RT-PCR, and RNA Cleveland (Ohio). I also worked at a COVID Test Kit. All of these Purification Kit manufacturers. Biotech incubator, BioEnterprise Corp. accomplishments were made possible Most significantly, we have only been able to maintain our growth by (Ohio), where I gained vital by courageous SRL team members improving our core items and focusing on quality. If we had succumbed to the entrepreneurial and commercial skills. I who ensured that our facilities temptation of expanding our business to include more COVID-centric rejoined SRL in 2008 and have since remained open even during the solutions at this time, we would not have been able to contribute as much been active in both technical and pandemic's height. to India's requirements. commercial activities. Please provide us with an update on My advise to other entrepreneurs is to have a solid plan in place, but also to Mr. Vikas Agarwal, my brother, earned your thoughts on the present \"dig your heels in for a fair duration before expecting any decent his Bachelor of Management Studies Biotechnology and Healthcare outcomes.” (BMS) from Mumbai University before industry environment. becoming a Director at Sisco Research Sisco Research Laboratories is Laboratories. After three years in SRL, tremendously excited about the he saw the need for foreign experience Biotech industry's potential. According and pursued his MBA at The University to the Indian Brand Equity Foundation of Nottingham Business School (IBEF), the Indian Biotech business (NUBS), UK, with a specialisation on was valued at roughly USD 64 billion Entrepreneurship. in 2019, with a 10% CAGR expected How do you take care of your until around 2025. (amounting to USD employees? What distinguishes your 102 billion). team? This expansion is expected to be the Our present goal is to improve our consequence of several government services by enhancing the quality of programmes such as Biotech Parks individuals with whom we deal. This is around the country, SEZs in high- referred to as \"People Capital.\" Our growth areas, and so on. There are team is made up of both industry experts around 2500 biotech enterprises and and ambitious young people. This over 2700 biotech start-ups in India combination, while not unique, provides alone. Similar patterns have been us with a more well-rounded approach noticed in numerous other nations, to whatever activity we do. including Vietnam, Malaysia, Turkey, www.thelifesciencesmagazine.com | 29
What is the future of o STREAMIN 32 | Americas Edition 2022
Digitalization, new market digital video consumption has continued to rise. Consumers offerings, and disruption by now have more video content alternatives than ever before, digital companies all contribute to based on medium, channel, content kind, and purpose. fast change in the TV and video Media businesses have developed innovative methods to enhance profitability and engagement through video as NG industry. Furthermore, in the age demand has grown. of video-on-demand and mobile media consumption, customer Video streaming services will get more personalized expectations and usage patterns are fast shifting. In broadcast According to a new poll by Digital Smiths, Netflix is TV and internet video comfortably leading the video streaming industry with a streaming, the year 2021 saw majority market share of 54 percent. This advantage isn't just due to their initial programming. Individual user remarkable development and accounts, preference-reading algorithms, and a decent recommendation engine are all features that Netflix has change. In the face of global pioneered in creating a more customized viewing experience. Customers have taken note of this. Hulu, problems and a quickly changing business, Amazon Prime, and other streaming services will likely rush to increase their personalisation skills, just as they did with original content. You'll also have an easier time finding TV and movies that suit your tastes than ever before. Streaming sports will go big Live sports may be the last great frontier for video streaming. The majority of video streaming services have concentrated on non-live entertainment, such as pre- recorded movies and television series. These are a logical fit for video streaming's \"view whenever\" philosophy. Live sporting events, on the other hand, appear to be tethered to cable television, if only because they're supposed to be seen live. According to the report, live sports are the least seen type of entertainment consumed via streaming, with live sports being the least watched form of entertainment consumed via streaming. With the continued mass exodus from cable and the potential loss of eyes, sports broadcasters will undoubtedly find a way to make their product work on video streaming. SlingTV and ESPN apps, for example, are gaining traction, but they still need to address the issue of convenience as well as the problem of events being dispersed across so many different networks that only one app can cover. If sports broadcasters want a slice of the streaming migration, they'll have to figure out how to make live sports viewing conform to what viewers have grown to expect from video streaming. With so much at risk, they will undoubtedly find a way. Streaming services will have to incorporate advertising in some way. Machine learning in live streaming Machine learning is the most recent digital transformation that helps to simplify and customize user experiences across all types of technology. This sort of computing algorithm www.thelifesciencesmagazine.com | 33
effectively \"learns\" what produces favorable results and what today. However, in a future influenced by digitization, first- does not, and improves itself over time depending on the class technological capabilities are required to create information gathered. Machine learning applications may be appealing content and, eventually, to reach customers with used in a variety of live video contexts, including major it. multi-camera events, smaller single-camera live feeds, and even educational institution lectures. Computers will be able Before understanding how to construct a video streaming to recognize specific indications (lighting, facial and speech program, you need analyze the industry overview and recognition, etc.) and automate live switching, recording, and future of Netflix. The majority of people watching video even the addition of lower thirds. For example, \"smart\" live material are millennials and Generation Z. A video video will be able to start the broadcast immediately when it streaming website has a broad reach. As a result, your detects a certain voice or person on stage. This technology chances of starting an internet video streaming platform can even track the presenter across the stage, ensuring that business are good. Discovering the reasons for creating a the audience's attention is kept on them. Following the feed, video streaming service like Netflix is part of the process of the system may create and publish an event highlight reel how to start a video streaming service like Netflix. Prior to depending on cues such as audience applause and lighting. AI firing the target, it is critical to aim accurately. and machine learning have enormous promise, and there are several instances of how they might be used. Conclusion Education empowerment We envision a future in which live video is the standard for all remote communication. Live streaming video will have The way we learn is improving thanks to live streaming. On a the greatest impact on how we study, cooperate, promote regular basis, conferences, presentations, and events are live products and services, consume advertising and broadcast. Live lecture broadcasting is used by universities entertainment, and obtain technical help in the near future. such as Harvard and Stanford. This allows their pupils to The main goal of live streaming is to let us understand one access information at any time and from any location, other better even when we are physically apart. Our goal at removing educational boundaries. As a result, students who Epiphan is to make live video creation more accessible to would not normally be able to attend the lecture can now do everyone. We think that live video is the next generation of so. true interactive human conversation, and we want to help make it more accessible through our products and services. How can the TV and video industry adapt to change? Even though the four future possibilities for the TV and video business by 2030 appear to be rather diverse, they all have certain universal consequences that all market participants should consider in their strategic planning. more about Netflix's potential prospects for more success in the next years Broadcasters and content creators cannot rely on their current market position any longer. They must be open to collaboration and partnerships, especially with direct rivals, to protect their business models and future income sources. Countering the danger posed by digital platform providers such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple, or Google requires cooperative creation, joint distribution approaches, and even combined platforms. Furthermore, because technology has become an integral part of their business operations, established broadcasters and content creators must continually invest in their digital competency. What's important for them is that they appeal to both digital experts and creative thinkers. \"Content is King,\" stated Bill Gates almost 20 years ago, and it still holds true 34 | Americas Edition 2022
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VOCERA COMMUNICATIONS STRESSBUSTERS FOR COMMUNITY 38 | Americas Edition 2022
For patients, families, and care teams to get seamless hospitals and healthcare facilities, to facilitate team healthcare, effective communication is essential. members' communication and collaboration. The safety and care of patients, as well as the wellbeing of nurses, doctors, and other healthcare workers, With the launch of the VoceraSmartbadge in January 2019, can all be impacted by a single link in the chain. a new category of wearable technology that blends smartphone usability with distinctive hands-free voice The goal of Vocera Communications Inc. is to improve capabilities, Vocera Communications revolutionised mobile patient, family, and care team members' lives by communication once more. The award-winning Smartbadge streamlining clinical workflows, decreasing cognitive was developed specifically for the healthcare industry based burden, and boosting safety. on 20 years of client input. The user-friendly mobile device helps elevate patient care, safety, and experience while also Three business owners and coworkers who were looking for enhancing clinician agility, streamlining processes, a better way to interact and collaborate launched Vocera reducing interruption fatigue, and mitigating cognitive Communications in 2000. What they accomplished overload. The device's designated panic button, which was permanently altered how people interact in hospitals and created with the safety of the care team in mind, enables other mission-critical settings. The business released the staff members to quickly summon assistance with only a first voice-activated, hands-free Vocera Badge in 2002. The touch of a button. most popular methods of care team communication at the time included shouting down the hallways, obnoxious The business also released Vocera Vina in 2019, a ground- overhead paging, and call-and-wait systems using landline breaking new smartphone app. Clinicians inside and outside phones. The Badge makes communicating considerably of the hospital can utilise the adaptable communication app, simpler, faster, and quieter. which delivers prioritised patient-centric calls, secure messages, and alarms in a single inbox and offers a For more than 20 years, Vocera Communications has been straightforward user experience. setting the standard for voice solutions technology, working to streamline workflows and enhance the daily lives of our Vocera products have been chosen by more than 2,100 clients and the communities they serve. The company facilities worldwide, including approximately 1,700 initially embraced a number of technologies, including hospitals and healthcare facilities, to facilitate team wireless and speech recognition, both of which are now members' communication and collaboration. Vocera widely used. The application of speech recognition has Communications is at home in upscale hotels, assisted- advanced significantly during the past 20 years. With the living homes, shops, stores, schools, power plants, libraries, development of voice assistants like Alexa and Siri, and more, in addition to the healthcare industry. Vocera people's willingness to use speech as a user interface has products enable mobile workers to communicate instantly significantly increased. But long before these voice with others and swiftly access resources or information, assistants, the Vocera Genie allowed mobile workers to use increasing their safety and productivity. simple voice commands to connect hands-free to the appropriate person or group. VOCERA COMMUNICATIONS PRODUCT/SERVICES NEXT STANDARD OF PPE More than 1,400 hospitals and health systems worldwide had chosen Vocera technologies by the time the one Vocera Communications and its staff had planned to millionth Badge was shipped in 2018 in order for care commemorate 20 years of invention in 2020, but those teams to securely text using the business' smartphone app, plans swiftly lost steam as the organisation, the nation, and make calls with the wearable Badge, and engage patients the entire world concentrated their efforts on responding to and families with its care experience solutions. Vocera and combating COVID-19. Communications now has more than 600 workers working from offices in the United States, Canada, Australia, India, Healthcare professionals experienced a variety of the Middle East, and the United Kingdom, along with a difficulties prior to the coronavirus pandemic that led to growing product range. stress, exhaustion, cognitive load, and burnout. Lack of adequate personal protection equipment was one of several Vocera products have been chosen by more than 2,100 job dangers and pressures (PPE). There is a potential of facilities worldwide, including approximately 1,700 contamination every time clinicians put on or remove PPE. www.thelifesciencesmagazine.com | 39
This is where voice-activated, hands-free communication is There aren't many isolation rooms at most hospitals. Some most useful. hospitals converted board rooms into isolation facilities during the COVID-19 crisis' peak. Because of this, it's Under their PPE, clinicians can use the Vocera Badge or Vocera critical that the designated nurse and infection prevention Smartbadge to converse hands-free while staying at the specialist are notified right away for effective triage, patient's bedside. Care teams members may immediately regardless of whether a patient tests positive or negative for connect with one another using straightforward voice COVID-19. In order to create room for another patient, a commands whether they are working in an isolation room, the patient who tests negative may be removed from isolation. ICU, or a triage tent inside or outside of a hospital, reducing An alert about a patient's COVID-19 test results can be the danger of contamination and protecting priceless PPE. automatically pushed from the EHR to the appropriate care team member's hands-free device, smartphone app, or web In order for care teams to work together via voice, text, and interface since the Vocera Communications platform filters intelligent alerting to triage patients promptly and safely, the and prioritises information. Vocera software platform has also proven essential. To enable just-in-time communication and short response times, the The severity of COVID-19 confirmed once more that at the platform interacts with more than 150 clinical and operational point of care, clinicians require clear, contextual, and just- systems, including EHRs, patient monitors, ventilators, and in-time information. more. 40 | Americas Edition 2022
Design with the user in min needed. All of it was completed When creating novel solutions, remotely, sparing the hospital's already Vocera Communications uses a overworked resources. human-centered design methodology. Understanding present and potential Another client required flexible consumers in their actual locations is capacity and required the conversion of the first step. Clinical executives, single-bed rooms into two-bed rooms. engineers, product developers, sales The customer requested that the team team members, and others from the develop a solution for Vocera organisation interview patients and Communications devices that would let other users to determine the issues patients who are isolated use basic that need to be resolved and why. voice commands to safely and quickly Then, Vocera starts working on connect with mobile care team creating prototypes and discussing members from their beds. potential solutions with its user base. Their technical teams created a new When COVID-19 triggered patient feature for usage on the Badge on surges, the business made sure its Smartbagde that would do all of that in clients understood they weren't alone response to the request. and that the Vocera Communications team was there to support them, www.thelifesciencesmagazine.com | 41 promptly and safely adapting to their changing demands. The clinical team at Vocera Communications conducted online communication gap evaluations, created plans specific to each facility and circumstance, and carried out online execution of those plans. They provided direction and established urgent group protocols for assembling teams to respond to COVID-19 and infection control emergencies. One of their clients required to alter the way patients moved through the emergency room and increase the space available for pop-up shops. The clinical team from Vocera Communications immediately joined them on the phone to undertake a series of 30-minute interviews with the hospital's medical professionals, nurses, and support workers. The team swiftly created new communication workflows that their deployment teams were able to implement in a matter of days after gaining insight into what they
WHY ARE TEENAGERS AVOIDING SOME S OCAI MEDIA PLATFORMS 42 | Americas Edition 2022
For years, Facebook's growth and impact rose at areas for the indisputable pleasure and fleeting gratification an incredible rate. However, recent studies imply of feeling cool. Meanwhile, Facebook, with its Harvard that its grip on users, particularly in the dorm-room beginnings, is struggling to stay up with the developed world, is eroding. Facebook's global user tastes of the next generation of trend-setters, despite the fact numbers are steadily increasing as more people in that it now owns Instagram, which has millions of users. developing countries join. In the United States, two out The Pew Research Center and the Berkman Center for of every three Americans uses Facebook, a figure that Internet & Society released a joint report today on Teens, has been constant for the previous two years. The Social Media, and Privacy, which supports what anecdotal number of American teenagers who use Facebook is evidence has shown for some time: Facebook is losing declining. favor with adolescents. While the study covered a wide Simply observe adolescents on their cellphones to see variety of concerns involving privacy and teen internet use, where they prefer to spend their virtual time today. Their the clearest narrative thread in the focus groups is one that world centers on Instagram, the app that adults mistaken is concerning for the world's largest social network. for a high-end photography service, and other apps that Former Facebook CFO David Ebersman said that the are far less retro than Mark Zuckerberg's social media reason was that Facebook was no longer the hot hangout platform. And therein lays one of Facebook's most location for kids on the Internet, and there's a simple serious problems: Facebook has become a social explanation for that: it's hard to seem cool when you're network that is often too complicated, too risky, and, hanging out with Mom and Dad. The social networking app above all, too overrun by parents to give teens the type is very popular among their Gen X and Baby Boomer of digital freedom or release they crave. With over 1 parents, who \"came to keep an eye on their kids, but billion users worldwide and an unstated mission to make remained when they realized that interacting with other more money, Facebook has become a social network that adults was pleasurable,\" as Bustle's Krystin Arneson is often too complicated, too risky, and, above all, too explains. Many kids prefer the obscurity of Whisper, the overrun by The move away from Facebook and toward other social media platforms is significant because each site allows or encourages users to perform various things. Facebook allows users to share a wide variety of material, including links, text, photographs, videos, and more. It has a wide range of applications. It is frequently used for simple interpersonal communication, but it may also be used to organize discussion groups, share news, and plan events. Here is the reason why teenagers are avoiding some social media platforms Facebook has evolved into a social network that is frequently too sophisticated, hazardous, and, most importantly, overrun by parents to provide kids with the digital independence they desire. Instagram — and, more recently, SnapChat, an app for posting photographs and videos that appear and then vanish — are the polar opposites of Facebook for tweens and teens: easy, ostensibly secret, and entertaining. Kids approach these applications like marijuana, enjoying them in dimly lit www.thelifesciencesmagazine.com | 43
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iPhone era's counterpart of PostSecret, due to extensive encourages their parents to brag about them, so they aren't parental surveillance on the app. Some teenagers, on the really encouraged to post negative or humiliating other hand, are refusing to sign up for Facebook in the first information. \"In comparison to others, Facebook has place. Bianca Bosker writes in a Huffington Post article on become a platform to kind of show off how happy and the big Facebook exodus that finding kids who had signed 'perfect' your family is,\" Lorena adds. The youngsters point up for the program was tough to begin with. Only one of out that Facebook's competitive and phony \"like\" culture the high school females Bosker spoke with was on may make individuals feel horrible. Increased use of the site Facebook, and she looked \"embarrassed to even be linked has been linked to low self-esteem in studies. Last month, with it,\" as University College London professor Daniel scientists from Stanford and New York University revealed Miller suggested was the case among youths. that deleting Facebook might make individuals happy while The one-stop-shop nature of Facebook is a major turnoff for also making them less educated. teenagers. They choose different applications for different things: Snapchat and WhatsApp (both owned by Facebook), CONCLUSION Instagram for photo sharing, and Twitter for news. This According to Frank N. Magid Associates, Facebook lost 6% desire for compartmentalized social media runs against to of its teen market share in 2014 – 94 percent of teens signed Zuckerberg's plan to merge WhatsApp, Instagram, and up for a Facebook account the year before, but only 88 Facebook messaging into a single platform, raising the percent remained active a year later. Mark Zuckerberg, on question of whether doing so risks alienating the youth. the other hand, has a silver lining because his firm controls Whatever happens, the teenagers believe that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, a popular messaging service. which has always been there for them, will continue to According to Bosker, instead of attempting to \"clone the exist. Perhaps, as kids grow older, their social media habits competition,\" Facebook has begun to acquire its successors. will begin to resemble those of their parents, and they will If your kid is fickle and always seeking for the next great begin to use the site. They said they'll be glad to look back thing, make sure you own the property as well. on Facebook as a static scrapbook of their childhoods when they're older. The majority of the teenagers who spoke with WIRED (a media site) indicated that after speaking with their parents, they now trust them not to publish anything inappropriate. Some have pointed out that the Facebook culture 46 | Americas Edition 2022
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