Kiran Mazumdar-Shawi
Born 23 Mar 1953

Biotechnology, Bengaluru. Mazumdar-Shaw, a trained brewer who could not find brewing work in India as a woman, founded Biocon in a garage in 1978 to make industrial enzymes. She moved it into insulin, statins and later biosimilars, cheaper versions of biological drugs, building one of India's first…

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