Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur. She is the chairperson and managing director of Biocon Limited, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India and the chairperson of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. 

• Mazumdar-Shaw, India’s richest self-made woman, founded India’s largest biopharmaceutical firm in 1978.
• The firm has successfully forayed into the lucrative US biosimilars market, catching the attention of investors.
• Biocon became the first company to gain approval from the USFDA for two different biosimilars of drugs used in certain cancer treatments.
• She’s invested in research infrastructure and scientific talent with the aim of building a deep R&D-based biotech firm, not a copycat generics maker.
• Her philanthropic initiative, The Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, aims to create a sustainable, affordable cancer care model.