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Haffkine Institute was founded by Dr. Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine on 10th January 1899. It is located in Parel in Mumbai. In 1975, it was divided into Haffkine BioPharmaceutical Corporation Ltd and Haffkine Institute of Training, Research and testing, focused on vaccine production and research. Recently, it has been short-listed by the Maharashtra government as the future institution for providing clinical trial training to doctors, pharmacologists and scientists across India.
Haffkine BioPharmaceutical Corporation Ltd developed first indigenous oral polio vaccine (OPV). Owing to strategic planning and sustained efforts, the company has been increasing its profits since 1997-98. It had employee strength of about 600 in 2001-02.
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