# Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

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## TL;DR

Founded Biocon in a garage in 1978 and turned it into the company behind the world's first approved trastuzumab biosimilar, and co-founded a 1,400-bed cancer campus in Bengaluru.

## Summary

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw started Biocon in Bengaluru in 1978 with 10,000 rupees of seed capital and built it into India's largest biopharmaceutical company; she is executive chairperson of Biocon and Biocon Biologics, whose portfolio includes trastuzumab (CANMAb in India, 2014; Ogivri in the US, 2017) and bevacizumab biosimilars and which acquired Viatris's biosimilars business in 2022. In 2009 she established the Mazumdar-Shaw Medical Centre with Devi Shetty at Narayana Health City, a 1,400-bed cancer and multispecialty campus. She holds the Padma Shri (1989), Padma Bhushan (2005) and the Othmer Gold Medal (2014).

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Role: Executive Chairperson and founder, Biocon and Biocon Biologics
- Specialisms: Biosimilars; Biotechnology entrepreneurship; Affordable cancer care; Philanthropy

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiran_Mazumdar-Shaw
- Biocon: https://www.biocon.com
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiran_Mazumdar-Shaw

## Connected records

- technologies: [Monoclonal antibodies](https://onco.cc/technologies/monoclonal-antibody/)
- drugs: [Trastuzumab biosimilars](https://onco.cc/drugs/trastuzumab-biosimilars/)
- companies: [Biocon](https://onco.cc/companies/biocon/), [Biocon Biologics](https://onco.cc/companies/biocon-biologics/)
- institutions: [Narayana Health (Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre)](https://onco.cc/institutions/narayana-health/)
- bottlenecks: [Most of the world has almost no cancer care](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-global-access/), [Prices and value](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-drug-pricing/)

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