ScienceMazumdar-Shaw on Biocon’s Mission to Make Life-Saving Drugs Accessible

Known as India’s “Queen of Biotech,” Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw founded Biocon in a rented garage nearly 50 years ago. The multibillion-dollar company is now among the world’s largest insulin producers and a leading biosimilars maker. As she considers handing her life’s work to successors, she discusses her pioneering path as an Indian female entrepreneur and her mission to bring life-saving therapies to patients.