Yusuf Hamied
Yusuf Hamied
Yusuf Khwaja Hamiedis a billionaire Indian scientist and businessman, the chairman of Cipla, a generic pharmaceuticals company founded by his father Khwaja Abdul Hamied in 1935...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionScientist
CountryIndia
people drug patents
If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.
believe drug saving
I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
chinese raw-materials world
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
disease today illness
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
suffering fundamentals principles
Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.