Today we were able to visit Biocon after we had three lectures earlier in the morning. Biocon is a Biotechnology company with two facilities in Bangalore, one which is the Headquarters and another which is a Bio facility. The company also has another in Hydrabad which focuses on chemicals. After we were given a brief presentation of what type of pharmaceuticals the company produces including insuline, Statins, Immune suppresants, etc. we were given a tour of their Bio facility in Bangalore! The Bio facility was really cool except it kind of smelled a bit funny on the outside and everyone was commenting haha! The tour guide was very informative and he told us he had recieved his Masters in Science from a University in Hydrabad, India, a city north of Bangalore, in Biotechnology, so needless to say this guy was pretty smart. The area we saw produced and filled insuline and antibodies to combat neck/throat cancer, which is pretty cool! I believe he also said the labs below and above the labs we saw did more highly classified research and we were not aloud to see these labs. After our tour guide was done showing us how the process was done we were escorted out of the high security facility back to our van and driven back to XIME!
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