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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.
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.
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.
Oct 31, 2018 · Khwaja Abdul Hamied earned his doctorate in Chemistry from Berlin University and toured several other countries in 1927 to acquire deep knowledge in establishing the Pharmaceutical industry and manufacturing medicines.
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...
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.
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...
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. Even after the partition, when Mohammad Ali Jinnah asked a fellow Muslim, Khwaja Hamied, to join Pakistan, Hamied refused.
