Ramanbhai B. Patel (19 August 1925 – 19 September 2001) was an Indian

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who founded the operation, along with school friend I A Modi, that eventually became the Ahmedabad-based pharmaceutical company Cadila Laboratories. Patel was born at Kathor in South

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and studied chemistry at

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'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-

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drugs

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& 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-

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drug

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, while in 1977 the firm launched Dexona-20, which was a concentrated form of the

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drug

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. In 1995, after a disagreement between Patel and Modi, Cadila Laboratories was restructured with the business being split two ways. Cadila Healthcare 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 on the

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in 2000. His son

Pankaj Patel Pankaj Ramanbhai Patel (born 1952/1953) is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Zydus Lifesciences, the fifth largest pharmaceutical company in India. Early life Pankaj Patel is a Gujarati. Patel holds Bachelor of Pharmacy and ...

(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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Patel, Ramanbhai People from Surat 1925 births 2001 deaths Indian businesspeople in the pharmaceutical industry 20th-century Indian chemists Businesspeople from Gujarat Gujarat University alumni