Ramanbhai B. Patel (19 August 1925 – 19 September 2001) was an Indian
chemist who founded the operation, along with school friend I A Modi, that eventually became the
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...
-based pharmaceutical company Cadila Laboratories.
Patel was born at
Kathor
Kathor is an area located in Surat, India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in t ...
in South
Gujarat and studied
chemistry
Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...
at
Gujarat University's L.M. College of Pharmacy before becoming a lecturer there. With
Indravadan Modi he founded Cadila Laboratories in 1952.
Among the early achievements of Cadila Laboratories were the production of Isopar, a formulation of the anti-
tuberculosis drugs
Isoniazid &
Para-amino salicylic acid in 1957, and Neuroxin-12, a single-vial mixture of
vitamin B1,
vitamin B6, and
vitamin B12, in 1959. In 1973 the firm developed process technology to make the anti-
diabetic drug
glibenclamide, while in 1977 the firm launched Dexona-20, which was a concentrated form of the
anti-inflammatory drug
dexamethasone.
In 1995, after a disagreement between Patel and Modi, Cadila Laboratories was restructured with the business being split two ways.
Cadila Healthcare
Zydus Lifesciences Limited, formerly known as Cadila Healthcare Limited, is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Ahmedabad, which is primarily engaged in the manufacture of generic drugs. It ranked 100th in the Fortu ...
was set up to take the Patel's share of the business and Cadila Pharmaceutical took Modi's share. Patel was chairman and managing director of Cadila Healthcare until his death. Cadila Healthcare
went public
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on the
Bombay Stock Exchange in 2000. His son
Pankaj Patel (born 1951) is the current Chairman and Managing Director of Cadila Healthcare.
Dr Raman Bhai Patel hosted Gandhi Mandela Peace Award 2019.
References
External links
Cadila Healthcare, website
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People from Surat
1925 births
2001 deaths
Indian businesspeople in the pharmaceutical industry
20th-century Indian chemists
Businesspeople from Gujarat
Gujarat University alumni