She is the only India-based business leader featuring on the list
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director, Biocon, has been ranked No. 2 on ‘The Medicine Maker Power List’ 2015, an index of the 100 most influential people across the globe in the field of medicine.
Mazumdar-Shaw appears on the list alongside global leaders from the industry, including CEOs, professors, Nobel Prize winning researchers and many other celebrated scientists from the pharma world.
The Top 5 on ‘The Medicine Maker Power List’ are Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, US, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director, Biocon, Sir Andrew Witty, Chief Executive Officer, GlaxoSmithKline, Arthur D Levinson, Chief Executive Officer, Calico and Heather Bresch, Chief Executive Officer, Mylan.
The list also includes names like Pascal Soriot, Chief Executive Officer, AstraZeneca; Robert A Bradway, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Amgen; Ian C Read, Chairman, Pfizer; Prof. Tyler Jacks, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; Prof Charles Cooney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US; Prof Harold Varmus, Weil Cornell Medical College and many more.
Mazumdar- Shaw is the only India-based business leader featuring on the list. The Medicine Maker is a UK-based publication that is distributed worldwide to a targeted European and North American industry professionals. The power list has been compiled from reader nominations with the help of expert judges and is based entirely on merit.
EP News Bureau – Mumbai
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