Biocon’s chairman and managing director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, has been ranked number two in ‘The Medicine Maker Power List' 2015, an index of the 100 most influential people across the globe in the field of medicine.

She appears in the list alongside global leaders from the industry, including chief executive officers, professors, Nobel Prize winning researchers and many scientists from the pharmaceutical world.

 
The top 5 in ‘The Medicine Maker Power List’ are: Anthony Fauci, director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairman & managing director, Biocon, Sir Andrew Witty, chief executive officer, GlaxoSmithKline, Arthur D. Levinson, chief executive officer, Calico and Heather Bresch, chief executive officer of Mylan.

 The prestigious list also includes names like Pascal Soriot, chief executive officer, AstraZeneca; Robert A. Bradway, chairman & chief executive officer, Amgen; Ian C Read, chairman, Pfizer; Prof. Tyler Jacks, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; Prof. Charles Cooney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Prof. Harold Varmus, Weil Cornell Medical College and many more.

 
The Biocon chief  is the only India based business leader featuring in the list. The Medicine Maker is a UK-based publication that is distributed worldwide to a targeted European and North American industry professionals.

 
The power list has been compiled from reader nominations with the help of expert judges and is based entirely on merit. It was developed in three stages. In stage one, The Medicine Maker invited readers to nominate those who they thought deserved recognition. In stage two, a jury of four noted medicine makers selected their top 100 from the slate of nominees: the results were consolidated into a list of 100 names. In the final stage, the jury ranked the list, and the average rankings were combined to provide the final power list.