Biocon LTD signs MoU with Malaysian-based BiotechCorp

Biocon Limited today signed an MoU with Malaysia's Biotechnology Corporation (BiotechCorp) to explore collaboration and potential investment in Malaysia's biotechnology industry.

BANGALORE: Biocon Limited today signed an MoU with Malaysia's Biotechnology Corporation (BiotechCorp) to explore collaboration and potential investment in Malaysia's biotechnology industry.

Biocon is in talks with BiotechCorp to manufacture biopharmaceutical products and formulation, within Malaysia's Nusajaya, Iskandar Malaysia, called the Bio-XCell Ecosystem, Biocon said in a statement.

Biocon is also developing Biotechnology infrastructure in the Bio-XCell Ecosystem Project.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon said, "Biocon is keen to explore Malaysia as a destination for our expansion. Malaysia and the Bio-XCell Ecosystem in Iskandar Malaysia are attractive propositions. We are interested in learning how we can leverage this offering with our commercial plans and look forward to formalising our engagement with BiotechCorp further".

The collaboration while giving Biocon a conducive ecosystem to further its biopharmaceutical activities, would also enable the transfer of knowledge to Malaysia's human capital, create employment and knowledge workers, and directly benefit the growth of similar local industry, the statement added.
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