VP: Iran fourth producer of biotech medicines

Secretary of Biotechnology Promotioan Office Mustafa Qanei said that Iran is now the fourth producer of biotechnological medicines “with 20 items”, adding 29 other medicinal items are in different phases of production, all of whose production will be complete in the next five years.

Qane’i estimated that, with 49 out of 146 medicines, Iran will hold the third rank after Japan and China.

Iran has 12 other biotechnological medicines on the list, which are in zero stage of production and no knowledge-based companies have volunteered for those, he added.

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