Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Tuesday, 11 Jan 2022 18:00 pm
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- Mazumdar-Shaw, India's richest self-made woman, founded India's largest listed biopharmaceutical firm by revenue, in 1978.
- The firm has successfully forayed into the lucrative U.S. biosimilars market, catching the attention of investors.
- The company has sold 3 billion doses of insulin to date and has Asia's largest insulin factory in Malaysia's Johor region.
- Biocon is working with U.S. firm Adagio Therapeutics to develop an antibody therapy called ADG20 to prevent and treat the coronavirus and its variants.
- In September 2021, vaccine billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla's Serum Institute of India agreed to acquire a 15% stake in Biocon Biologics, a Biocon subsidiary.