After Wockhardt, winds of change are blowing across another pharma company Piramal Healthcare with chairman and promoter Ajay Piramal’s daughter Nandini joining the company as executive director. Over recent months, Schauna Chauhan in Parle, Meher Pudumjee in Thermax and Tanya Dubash in Godrej have taken over key position in their respective companies. Prior to her induction on Piramal Healthcare’s... 

Indian drug makers are in much demand and Zydus Cadilla’s research deal with global giant Eli Lilly is just one example. The deal is to partner for research of cardiovascular drugs with potential payments of up to $300 million in the long term for the Indian firm. “More such deals are a possibility for other research molecules,” said Pankaj Patel, CMD, Zydus Cadila. And that’s...