Year of start of vaccine manufacturing units in India

Table IV. Year of start of vaccine manufacturing units in India year                                Milestone 1832-1890                Sporadic research in various setups for development of smallpox vaccine lymph in India 1890                         Laboratory in Shillong started producing smallpox vaccine lymph 1897                      Plague vaccine produced by Dr Haffkine in makeshift laboratory of 2 rooms in Grants Medical College,  Bombay (Mumbai) 1899                         Plague Laboratory, Bombay; later on named as Haffkine Institute (1925) Mumbai 1904/05                    Central Research Institute, Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh 1907                        Pasteur Institute of India, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu 1910-1930                 Additional vaccine institutes established in India, majority of producing smallpox vaccine 1948                        BCG Laboratory, Guindy, Madras 1952                                 Zydus Cadila, 1953                                 Biological E Ltd. 1966                        Serum Institute of India Ltd. 1982                         Indian Immunological Limited 1988                                 Panacea Biotec 1989                                 IVCOL and BIBCOL 1992                         Shantha Biotechnic Ltd. 1996                        Bharat Biotech Ltd. 2008                        Green Bio-pharma Ltd. *This is an indicative list only ** As per the information collected from the officials websites of the manufacturing units serum institutes for India: www.seruminstitute.com;