Cyrus Poonawalla
Pune, India
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Pune University | Doctorate, Pune University
India
vaccines
$9,600,000,000
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#147 Billionaires 2019
#15 India's Richest 2018
Son of a race horse breeder, Cyrus Poonawalla founded Serum Institute of India in 1966 and built it into one of the world's largest vaccine makers.Serum produces 1.5 billion doses annually of a range of vaccines, including for measles, polio and flu.His U.K.-educated son Adar is Serum's CEO and helps him run the company.Serum owns Dutch vaccine maker Bilthoven Biologicals and the Czech unit of U.S. firm Nanotherapeutics.In June 2018, Poonawalla was conferred the honorary degree of the Doctor of Humane Letters by the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Poonawalla contributed $5.5 million for a hospital named after his late wife, to treat the underprivileged. Son Adar, featured in Forbes Asia's Heroes of Philanthropy list, is one of the brand ambassadors for the government's 'Clean India' mission.
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