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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. His son, Yusuf Hamied headed the company after him for the next 52 years.
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. He is also an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.
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.
Jan 25, 2016 · Yusuf’s father, Khwaja Abdul (K.A.) Hamied (1898-1972), was born in Aligarh. His paternal grandfather Khwaja Abdul Ali (1862-1948) traced his lineage through spiritual guides to the...
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 (1898-1972) was a pioneer pharmaceutical industrialist in India. He was a patriot and true nationalist. He responded to the call for civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi during his studies at the Muir Central College of the Allahabad University where he was a master level student in chemistry.
