Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 23 March 1953) is an Indian entrepreneur. She is the Chairman & Managing Director of Biocon Limited a biotechnology company based in Bangalore (Bengaluru), India. She started Biocon in 1978 and spearheaded its evolution from an
industrial enzymes manufacturing company to a fully integrated
bio-pharmaceutical company with a well-balanced business portfolio of
products and a research focus on diabetes, oncology and auto-immune
diseases. She also established two subsidiaries: Syngene to provide
development support services for discovery research and Clinigene to
cater to clinical development services.
Her pioneering work in the sector has earned her several awards, including the prestigious Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan from the government of India.She was recently named among TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. She is also on the Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women, and the Financial Times’ top 50 women in business list.
Born in Bangalore, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw completed her schooling from the city’s Bishop Cotton Girl’s High School. She wanted to join medical school but instead took up biology and completed her BSc Zoology Honors course from Mount Carmel College,Bangalore University. She later did her post-graduation in Malting and Brewing from Ballarat College, Melbourne University.
She worked as a Trainee Brewer in Carlton and United Breweries, Melbourne and as a Trainee Malster at Barrett Brothers and Burston, Australia. She also worked for some time as a Technical Consultant at Jupiter Breweries Limited, Calcutta and as a Technical Manager at Standard Maltings Corporation, Baroda between 1975 and 1977.
Her pioneering work in the sector has earned her several awards, including the prestigious Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan from the government of India.She was recently named among TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. She is also on the Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women, and the Financial Times’ top 50 women in business list.
Born in Bangalore, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw completed her schooling from the city’s Bishop Cotton Girl’s High School. She wanted to join medical school but instead took up biology and completed her BSc Zoology Honors course from Mount Carmel College,Bangalore University. She later did her post-graduation in Malting and Brewing from Ballarat College, Melbourne University.
She worked as a Trainee Brewer in Carlton and United Breweries, Melbourne and as a Trainee Malster at Barrett Brothers and Burston, Australia. She also worked for some time as a Technical Consultant at Jupiter Breweries Limited, Calcutta and as a Technical Manager at Standard Maltings Corporation, Baroda between 1975 and 1977.
Today, thanks to her leadership, Biocon is building cutting-edge
capabilities, global credibility and global scale in its manufacturing
and marketing activities. It has Asia’s largest insulin and statin
facilities also the largest perfusion-based antibody production
facilities.
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