But it was expensive. So Yusuf Hamied, a 34-year-old chemist at an Indian drugmaker, got his company to start manufacturing a cheaper version. ICI protested to the Indian government, and Hamied ...

The Cipla version costs 20 to 30 percent less than the brand-name drug. Sponsor Message Dr. Yusuf Hamied, chairman of Cipla, says he is eager to provide the U.S. market with his generic version of ...

Yusuf Hamied, the Lithuanian-born chairman of Cipla, announced his firm would drastically cut prices of his firm's kidney, lung, and brain cancer medicines in an effort to make the drugs and their ...

Yusuf Hamied, 84, chairman of Cipla, recalls the time when he was called a pirate. That was in 2001, and Hamied’s company was offering to sell for $1 a day, or around $350 a year, the then only ...

We need our Dr. Hamied moment. A brief history lesson: in 2000, a Lithuania-born scientist and businessman named Dr. Yusuf Hamied called the Western world’s bluff by standing up at a European ...

In 1992, the editor of The Times of India telephoned one of Mumbai’s most prominent businessmen, Yusuf K Hamied. The editor asked Hamied, “as a Muslim leader” his opinion on communal riots ...

Born in Vilnius, then Poland, now Lithuania, and raised in Mumbai, Yusuf Hamied has an Indian Muslim father and Russophone Lithuanian Jewish mother. They met during the pre-war Berlin, where they ...

A football fan, Kamil Hamied is known to be a calm and quiet person who wants to do something for society, like his uncle Yusuf. Image: Kamil Hamied keen to pursue other interests. Kamil Hamied ...

In 1992, the editor of the Times of India telephoned one of Mumbai’s most prominent businessmen, Yusuf K Hamied. The editor asked Hamied, “as a Muslim leader” his opinion on communal riots ...

An update on his GoFundMe page said that the Yusuf and Farida Hamied Foundation had offered to pay for his tuition and residence costs. open image in gallery Yusuf Hamied is the chairman of Cipla ...

But what really caused a stir was when the company’s boss, Yusuf Hamied, stunned the assembled audience with his offer to supply an anti-AIDS cocktail drug for $800. At that point, the normal ...