Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw most influential personality, says poll

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Bangalore: Leading biotech company Biocon India Chairman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has been declared most influential personality in bio business outside the US and Europe in an international poll conducted by magazine, Nature Biotechnology.

According to a release here, other notable winners in other categories included Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, Dan Vassella (Novartis) and Arthur Levinson (Genentech).

''I consider this international acknowledgement as a recognition of the potential and promise that biotechnology holds for our country and I accept this on behalf of the entire Indian biotech community,'' Ms Mazumdar-Shaw commented on the recognition.

Last year she had made it to Fortune's list of the 50 most powerful women in international business. A recent survey by a leading Indian business magazine declared her as one of the most powerful women in Indian business.

''Curiously, the winner of the 'Bio-business in the rest of the world category, Ms Mazumdar-Shaw, seems to be more popular on the global scene than she actually is at home,'' Nature Biotechnology said in the release.

During the month of January, Nature Biotechnology's e-mail registrant list and website visitors were asked to vote for the people they viewed as most influential in eight categories of biotech. The categories were society and ethics, policy and regulations, biopharmaceuticals, agricultural, environmental and industrial biotech, technology, US biobusiness, European biobusiness and biobusiness in the rest of the world.

The poll, posted online from January 12 to 31 last, included 291 nominees, shortlisted by the editors of Nature Biotechnology.