Bangalore, Jan 23
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw of the country's largest biotech research firm, Biocon Ltd, has been named winner of the 2014 Othmer Gold Medal, a top award of the US-based Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Shaw is also known as India's biotech queen for her pioneering work in biotech research.
She will be conferred the prestigious award in March at Philadelphia, where the Foundation is based, a Biocon spokesperson told IANS here Thursday.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation, a non-profit organisation, preserves history and heritage of chemistry and chemical engineering. Its collections are used to set up a body of original scholarship to highlight chemistry's role in shaping society.
By:IANS