Biocon Biologics appoints Peter Piot as independent director

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Biocon Biologics, the biosimilar subsidiary of Biocon, has appointed professor Peter Piot as an independent director for 3 years with impact from at the moment.

Piot, the director of the London College of Hygiene & Tropical Drugs and the Handa Professor of International Well being, was initially educated in infectious ailments and medical microbiology, with unique contributions in epidemiology, bacteriology, virology, and public well being coverage interventions largely in low-and middle-income international locations.

Piot, who led pioneering analysis on HIV/AIDS, ladies’s well being and infectious ailments, largely in Africa, was the founding government director of UNAIDS and Underneath Secretary-Basic of the United Nations from 1995 to 2008, bringing AIDS to the forefront of the world’s agenda. He was a part of the workforce that remoted the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976.

He has a broad and long run understanding of technique growth and implementation; management of each a big inter-governmental group and of educational establishments; and coverage growth in well being, science, biotechnology, and worldwide growth.

“His thought management and invaluable expertise in world healthcare will tremendously information our actions in constructing Biocon Biologics into an modern world chief in biosimilars dedicated to delivering inexpensive entry to life saving Biologics,” Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, government chairperson, Biocon, was quoted saying in a press launch.

Piot has authored over 600 scientific publications and 16 books, together with his memoir “No Time to Lose” and was a 2014 Time Individual of the Yr “The Ebola Fighters”.

“I’m delighted to affix dynamic Biocon Biologics and its important mission of bringing the merchandise of innovation to those that can profit from them. The world over governments are challenged to include the spiralling healthcare prices and firms like Biocon Biologics are dedicated to pursue the trail of innovation that allows inexpensive entry to sufferers globally and in flip helps healthcare techniques decrease their spends,” stated Piot.

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