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KIRAN-MAZUMDAR-SHAW

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Banks wouldn't lend to a 25-year-old woman starting a biotech company in 1978. So I started with $200 in my garage.

Making expensive drugs affordable is not charity. It is the biggest business opportunity in the world.

I wanted to be a brewmaster like my father. No brewery in India would hire a woman. Biotechnology was my second choice — and my best decision.

Biocon's insulin serves millions of diabetics who could never afford the branded version. That is what keeps me going after 46 years.

India can be the pharmacy of the world. We have the talent, the scale, and the cost advantage. We just need the ambition.