National pharmaceutical institutes have signed 17 agreements with drug firms, including Dr Reddy’s, Sun Pharma and Wockhardt. Seven National Institutes for Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPERs) have undertaken academia-industry linkage with 17 Pharma Industries of Private and Public sector. Among the institutes, NIPER Hyderabad signed three agreements — one each with Dr Reddy’s Labs, Bharat Biotech and NATCO. NIPER Ahemdabad inked four MoUs one each with Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Cadila Healthcare (Zyudus), Sahjanand Technologies and Johnson & Johnson.