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INSIGHT from CUSTOMER

Interview 1 Interview with Ms. Shraddha Mane
“It’s a strong, reliable,

and synergistic bonding.”

We interviewed Ms. Shraddha Mane from HiMedia Laboratories Pvt. Ltd in India, a leading Bioscience
company based in Mumbai manufacturing high-quality culture media for microbiology. HiMedia is
amongst the top 3 brands in microbiology across the world. Additionally, they also provide advanced
media and products in the fields of Animal Cell Culture, Plant Tissue Culture, Molecular Biology, Chemicals,
and Lab-Aids/Equipment. HiMedia have recently progressed in the field of Higronics which is quite prom-
ising for the future of agriculture. Shimadzu have been supporting the research and development activities
undergoing at HiMedia.

Hello Ms. Mane, thank you very much used in vaccines where the main focus is to achieve a
for spending some time for this interview. good count of the cells.
At first, could you brief us about your
organization, type of research carried out, Congratulations to HiMedia Laboratories
product line, etc.? on being conferred with the “Innovator
Award- 2020” by BIRAC. Could you share
HiMedia Laboratories Private Limited is an Indian-origin in brief more about this achievement?
bioscience company headquartered in Mumbai, with a
presence across 150 countries. It has different divisions Thank you so much. It was indeed a prestigious award.
such as Microbiology, Animal cell culture, Plant Cell HiMedia Laboratories Pvt Ltd. has been conferred
Culture, Higronics, Molecular Biology, and Chemicals & with the “BIRAC Innovator Award 2020” under the cat-
Lab aids. egory of therapeutics, vaccines, and drug delivery by the
Animal Cell Culture division has proficiency in the de- Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council
velopment & manufacture of cell culture medium for (BIRAC- A Government of India Organization).
mammalian & insect cell lines, in powdered and liquid The award was in recognition of the significant con-
formulations. Comprehensive design of experiments, tribution made by our team along with its collaborators,
raw material qualification, and media production using the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, towards
automation and customization are our strengths. We a high level of innovation research for “Designing & com-
supply serum-free media for CHO, Vero, MDCK, HEK, mercialization of affordable chemically defined serum-free
PK-15, Vero, MRC-5, BHK cell lines, and T cells, most media and feed for high-value Biosimilars manufacture”.
widely used for industrial production of therapeutic re- This innovation will
combinant proteins and vaccines. In addition, we man- help India to
ufacture and supply multi-compendial biochemicals and
growth factors for Cell Culture.

Could you outline the research activities
carried out in your department?

Our main focus is on the development of different
cell culture media which is used in Biopharma for
protein production and in Vaccine production to
achieve a good cell count and titre.
Other research activities involve protein produc-
tion, purification of the protein, spent media analysis,
characterization of the protein, and media development

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