CH Unnikrishnan is currently Founder & Editor of Future Medicine, India’s first and only medical science and services news magazine. Unni—as he is popularly known in the industry—was Senior Associate Editor of BusinessWorld, one of the top business magazines in India.
His total experience as a working journalist spans out to more than 23 years. Started his career with the business publications division of The Indian Express group in Mumbai in 1996, he was also a founding member of India’s first pharmaceutical portal pharmabiz.com.
He was awarded Business and Science Reporting Excellence Award of Health Essayists & Authors League (HEAL), a health writers’ network of SAARC countries, in 2008. He has also received Best Journalist Award of HT-MINT for a series of articles on India’s IPR regime and related issues consecutively for three years— 2008, 2009, 2010.
Several of his special reports have been published by international science and trade magazines including Manufacturing Chemist, a leading pharma industry magazine published from the UK, among others. His articles on IPR had also been re-published in several national and international IP journals and blogs including Spicy IP, one of the most read IP blogs, and Country Index, an international guide for trade mark practitioners published from Germany.