• Born on the 19th of August 1925, Ramanbhai began his career as a lecturer at the L.M.College of Pharmacy, a premier institute in Ahmedabad. In 1952, Ramanbhai became an entrepreneur, armed with sound business acumen; he laid a strong foundation for Cadila and contributed to the growth of the Indian pharmaceutical industry.
• At a time when the newly independent nation was heavily dependent on imports of drugs and pharmaceuticals, a determined Ramanbhai had set out to prove that an indigenous company could provide innovative, research-based quality medicinals. His trailblazing efforts in research had ushered in several new, need-based therapies. Today, Zydus Cadila is one of the leading biopharmaceutical companies in India, engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of a wide range of vaccines, diagnostics and biologicals.

• Born on 18th February 1926, I A Modi is the Founder Director of the erstwhile Indian biopharmaceutical major Cadila, restructured as Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd, since June 1995.
• Be it, building brands, competitiveness in succeeding in a challenging environment, general welfare of customers, individual influence to peer group and society or building an ethical organization, Modi's contributions have been commendable. A leading player back at home, Cadila Pharmaceuticals under the leadership of I.A. Modi is well geared for a quantum leap in the global market.

• Born in Mehmadpur village, Palanpur district, Gujarat, Shri U.N. Mehta began his career in 1944 as a clerk serving the Government. His desire to excel led him to take up the job as a medical representative for multinational drug giant, Sandoz.
• A man of great vision and fierce determination, Shri Mehta set foot in the business world independently with INR 25,000 that he received as severance pay and 13 years of experience in the industry as his investments. He established an entity, which today is one of the most formidable forces in the Indian biopharma industry, Torrent Pharmaceuticals.
• A pioneer and trendsetter in his own right, he established the Torrent Gujarat Biotech Plant in 1995, which marked the entry in the merging field of biotechnology.

• An Enzyme Engineer from IIT, Delhi with over 35 years experience in R&D and production of enzyme technology, Piyush Palkhiwala established Maps Enzymes, way back in 1975.
• Under his leadership, Maps emerged as a pioneer biotechnology company in the area of industrial enzymes. He is responsible for almost all of the scientific innovations developed by Maps in enzyme technology.

• Driven by his entrepreneurial spirit, Sudhir quit Ranbaxy to start his own consulting firm Sudam Consultants wherein he transferred number of fermentation based technologies to countries such as Hungary, Slovenia, Holland and number of reputed companies in India like Biocon, Lupin, Krebs biochemicals, etc.
• Being proactive in nature and spirit, he went ahead to set up manufacturing facilities and buy the required machinery to manufacture Penicillin G Amidase Enzyme in May 2000 under the name of Concord Biotech Ltd, which has emerged as a leader in the enzyme market, today.

• In the post-independence period, Ramanbhai worked relentlessly for creating a strong, vibrant and diversified industrial base in the western region in India.
• During the span of his involvement in the life sciences business, Alembic achieved glorious milestones. The most momentous of them was the development of indigenous technology for manufacture of PENCILLIN through fermentation process.

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