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Khwaja Abdul Hamied FCS, FRIC (31 October 1898 – 23 June 1972) was an Indian industrial and pharmaceutical chemist who founded Cipla, India's oldest pharmaceutical company in 1935. [1]
Yusuf Khwaja Hamied (born 25 July 1936) is an Indian scientist, billionaire businessman and the chairman of Cipla, a generic pharmaceuticals company founded by his father Khwaja Abdul Hamied in 1935. [1]
Aug 5, 2023 · Yusuf Hamied's buccaneering campaign against Big Pharma was inspired by his father Khwaja Abdul Hamied who had called for India's patent law to enforce compulsory licensing to other manufacturers to prevent multinationals from price gouging.
Feb 21, 2021 · Even as a young man, Khwaja Abdul Hamied knew exactly what he wanted from life. In 1923, when he was 25, he suddenly decided to quit a promising job as reader in chemistry at Jamia Millia Islamia in Aligarh. Instead, he determined to go abroad for further studies.
Jan 3, 2011 · This pre-eminence makes him as one of the most remarkable Indian Muslim of recent times and his life and achievements deserve to be known more widely. Son of Khwaja Abdul Ali and Masood Jahan Begum, Hamied was born on 31st October,1898 in Aligarh in the house of his maternal grandfather Khwaja Mohammed Yusuf.
Dec 23, 2014 · In 1935, when Khwaja Abdul Hamied set up Cipla in Central Mumbai to manufacture medicines in India, few could have predicted that in the next few decades the company would take on the world's mightiest multinationals on patents and produce low-cost drugs for the world's extreme poor.
Khwaja Abdul Hamied was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. He opened his company with the aim to help the poorest of Indians get access to affordable and quality medicines.
Dec 9, 2019 · This chapter is about Khwaja Abdul Hamied, a Muslim Indian who arrived in Berlin in 1924, shortly after his first experience of a rebellion against the colonial power, to study for a dissertation in chemistry with a view to returning to India with the knowledge he needed to help build his country.
Dec 9, 2019 · Khw aja Abdul Hamied, born in 1898 in Aligarh, was the son of Khwaja. Abdul Ali (1862–1948), district court judge and heir to a long line of Naksh-. bendi reformers, and Masud Jehan Begum (187...
Jan 28, 2022 · Yusuf Hamied is the chairperson of Cipla, an Indian multinational generic pharmaceuticals company founded in 1935 by his father, Khwaja Abdul Hamied.
