Reliance Life Sciences, incorporated in the year 2001 is a new millennium initiative of the Reliance Group. Reliance Group is the largest private sector enterprise in India, participating in businesses in the energy and materials value chain, with group revenues of USD 35 billion. The flagship company, Reliance Industries Limited, is a Fortune Global 500 company, and ranks 103rd amongst the world's Top 200 companies in terms of revenues.

Reliance Life Sciences is developing business opportunities in the domains of medical, plant and industrial biotechnology. From a domain perspective, these opportunities cover Biopharmaceuticals, Pharmaceuticals, Clinical Research Services, Regenerative Medicine, Molecular Medicine, Novel Therapeutics, BioFuels, Plant Tissue Culture, Plant Metabolic Engineering and Industrial Biotechnology. From an integration perspective, these opportunities encompass Repositories, Research, Process Development, Pre-clinical Studies, Human Clinical Trials, Commercial-scale Manufacture and Marketing, all of which are carried out in-house.