Your startup idea to attack asthma, diabetes, cancer may get backing from Nasscom, Astrazeneca
Global biopharmaceutical major AstraZeneca and IT industry body Nasscom Thursday joined hands to set up an accelerator programme to support Indian start-ups in healthcare.
- The selected winners among the finalists will receive mentorship support from AstraZeneca, which will contribute its unique healthcare domain expertise with the aim of helping the finalists bring their solutions to market.
- Under this collaboration, AstraZeneca and Nasscom will incubate start-ups in bringing innovative and frugal solutions that can help in the management of NCDs.
- AstraZeneca PLC Chairman of the Board Leif Johansson told PTI: “Best healthcare that can be provided and developed comes from cooperation across borders between industry, government and academia in a such way that we, with the help of technology, can provide a higher-quality service at a lower cost.