AstraZeneca joins hands with Nasscom to set up accelerator healthcare programme

Global biopharmaceutical major AstraZeneca and IT industry body Nasscom on Thursday joined hands to set up an accelerator programme to support Indian start-ups in healthcare.

At the India-Sweden Unnati Healthcare 2.0 day event held here, AstraZeneca and its partners, Business Sweden, Nasscom, Atal Innovation Mission-Niti Aayog and AGNIi also announced the finalists of the Unnati Healthcare Innovation Challenge.

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.

AstraZeneca has launched a strategic partnership with the Nasscom IoT Centre of Excellence to set up an accelerator programme to support Indian start-ups develop innovative solutions to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) care in India.