Kallam Anji Reddy (10 August 1941 – 15 March 2013) was an
Indian entrepreneur in the
pharmaceutical industry, the founder-chairman of
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, which he established in 1984, and chairman of Dr Reddy's Foundation (DRF), the
corporate social responsibility
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arm of the group, established 1996. He was a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry.
Life
After graduating from Annapotanna Zilla parishath High School Nutakki, Reddy received his first Bachelor of Science degree from
A.C. College at
Guntur
Guntur () is a city and the administrative headquarters of Guntur district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Guntur is spread across 168.49 km square and is the third-largest city in the state. It is situated to the west of the Ba ...
in 1958. He then earned his B.Sc.(Tech) in Pharmaceuticals and Fine chemicals from the University Department of Chemical Technology of University of Mumbai (now
Institute of Chemical Technology,
Mumbai), followed by a PhD in
chemical engineering under
L.K Doraiswamy from the
National Chemical Laboratory,
Pune in 1969.
Reddy died of cancer on 15 March 2013 at the Apollo Hospital in
Hyderabad.
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories founder chairman Dr. Kallam Anji Reddy passes away : Corporate, News – India Today
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Awarded
The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2001 and later with the Padma Bhushan in 2011 for his contribution to the Indian pharmaceutical industry.
References
External links
Biography of Dr Anji Reddy
Dr Redddys, Corporate website
Dr Reddy's Foundation
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2013 deaths
1940 births
Indian billionaires
Indian biotechnologists
Businesspeople from Andhra Pradesh
Indian businesspeople in the pharmaceutical industry
People from Guntur district
Recipients of the Padma Shri in trade and industry
University of Mumbai alumni
Institute of Chemical Technology alumni
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in trade and industry
20th-century Indian biologists
Telugu people