(openPR) - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, February 07th, 2012: The Jury of Industry experts constituted by ABLE has declared Ocimum Biosolutions as a Bioexcellence Award winner at Bio INDIA BIO 2012 event under Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Category.
Ms. Anuradha Acharya, CEO of Ocimum Biosolutions said, “Systems Biology and Bioinformatics will be the backbone of future therapeutics and diagnostics. At Ocimum we are focusing our efforts in these areas to meet the needs of the future and have therefore evolved our business goals accordingly. It is an honor to receive this Bioexcellence award and we thank the govt. of Karnataka for the recognition. ”
Mr. Govind Rao Adireddi, VP BioIT Consulting at Ocimum Biosolutions, said, “It is a privilege to receive this award. From over a decade, Ocimum Biosolutions has helped partners and researchers accelerate their discovery programs. Our energetic and innovative team deserves this recognition as they have consistently helped researchers and partners with innovative and smarter solutions. We are in exciting times of genomics and we will continue to add value to using solutions in BioIT, cancer informatics, clinical genomics and translational research”
The Award is presented in the presence of an august gathering of over 800 Delegates consisting of Biotech Industry Captains, Policy Makers and Scientific fraternity on 7th February during Bio-Excellence Awards Function of Bangalore INDIA BIO 2012

Ocimum Biosolutions is a leading integrated global genomics outsourcing partner with solutions spanning Bioresearch Design and Execution; Data Analytics and Insights; Laboratory, Sample & Data Management; and Integrated Solutions. Ocimum provides comprehensive genomic services and reference databases; data analysis; life science lab information management solutions; and also offers both research level and GLP-compliant services. Majority of the top 25 pharma and biotech companies and leading research institutes worldwide have chosen Ocimum as their preferred genomics outsourcing partner. Ocimum has received several awards including “Fastest Growing Life Sciences Company in India”, Red Herring Asia 100, “IT Innovation Award” by NASSCOM and has been named in the Deloitte list of Fastest Growing companies in Asia, four years in a row. Ocimum is one of three Indian companies that successfully developed an indigenous, relatively low-cost H1N1 Swine Flu H1N1 detection kit in 2010.
For more information, please visit www.ocimumbio.com.

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