The Netherlands Business Delegation Visits BE

Author(s): City Air NewsChirag Mehta, CFO, Divya Bijlwan, Head, BD, Lakshminarayan Neti, COO, Vaccine Division, Mahima Datla, MD, Biological E. Limited, H E Mr. Marten Van Den Berg, Vice Minister for Foreign. The delegation comprises Vice...

The Netherlands Business Delegation Visits BE
Author(s): 

Chirag Mehta, CFO, Divya Bijlwan, Head, BD, Lakshminarayan Neti, COO, Vaccine Division, Mahima Datla, MD, Biological E. Limited, H E Mr. Marten Van Den Berg, Vice Minister for Foreign.

The delegation comprises Vice Minister and Director General, Ministry of Economic and Foreign Affairs and Netherlands Ambassador in India and others

Hyderabad, June 22, 2017: A Netherlands business delegation comprising of His Excellency, Mr.Marten Van Den Berg, Vice Minister and Director General, Ministry of Economic and Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands, and His Excellency, Mr.Alphonsus Stoelinga, the Netherlands Ambassador in India visited Biological E. Limited (BE) here today.

The delegation met with Ms.Mahima Datla, Managing Director, BE, and other senior executives of the organisation.

BE has a great history of collaborating with various industry partners and academia around the world. The Netherlands-based Intravacc (erstwhile NVI) had transferred the technology of Hib Vaccine to BE in 2005. BE uses Hibas one of the components in its Liquid Pentavalent Vaccine.Ms. Mahima Datla said the technology transfer from Intravacc to BE is a testament of a successful alliance between academia and industry and the impact such partnerships can have in the field of global health.

Mr.Thijs Veerman, CEO, Intravaac, and Mr.Ajay Justin Odethakal, Chief Representative, the Netherlands Business Support Office in Hyderabad, were also part of the delegation.

Date: 
Thursday, June 22, 2017