HiMedia Laboratories Private Limited is an Indian origin Bioscience company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. HiMedia is one of the most prominent biosciences companies in India.
The company was established 50 years ago, by Dr. Gangadhar M. Warke, a soil Microbiologist, along with his wife, Mrs. Saroj G. Warke and his younger brother, Mr. Vishnu M. Warke. Today, HiMedia as an organization is engaged in developing, manufacturing, and selling of majority of bioscience-based products worldwide, and has expanded bases by establishing offices and warehouses in Europe and the USA.
HiMedia is named as 'Pride of India' by Bioscience experts as it is the first registered organization of Indian origin, founded by an Indian scientist for manufacturing microbiology media based on in-house R&D technology.
The humble expedition started from microbiology products with 5 products, now magnified to more than 30,000 SKUs and successful diversification into products related to Animal Cell Culture, Plant Tissue Culture, Molecular Biology, Agro-industry, lab chemicals, and lab aids, hydroponics etc. HiMedia's involvement in cutting-edge research, technology applications, and strong potential in translational projects made it popular as collaborating partner with premier academic and research institutes in India and abroad. Continuous urge to contribute to society using advanced technologies delivered to HiMedia's new wing "higronics" which provide "One-Stop" solution for hydroponics-based projects. HiMedia's family business is also greatly engaged in corporate social responsibility which gives a high amount of satisfaction as a human being.
At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 had a crippling effect on the nation's businesses, HiMedia strongly supported our country's fight against the virus by providing timely provisions of Swab Sample Collection Kits (VTM), Viral RNA extraction kits used in diagnosis of the SARS-CoV-2 infection in India and coronavirus multiplex probe PCR kit which was developed for sensitive and reliable detection of the SARS COV 2 virus.
HiMedia has ventured into intuitive medicine by means of PCR based detection of anti-microbial markers helping clinicians to decide their drug of choice. They are also enhancing the bioinformatics space for sequencing and post sequencing gene mapping analysis. HiMedia's insights, ambitions, and accomplishments, in many ways, compliment the stellar community of Indian scientists.