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Kiran Mazumdar Shaw conferred ICC Lifetime Achievement Award
Kolkata: The chairman & managing director of Biocon Limited, Ms Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, has been conferred the Indian Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding contributions in the field of biotechnology, business and industry.

At a ceremony on Saturday night at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kolkata, West Bengal information technology and environment minister, Manabendra Mukherjee, handed over the prestigious award.

According to the award citation, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw's pioneering efforts in biotechnology have drawn global recognition both for Indian industry and Biocon. Her unique vision has steered Biocon's transition from an industrial enzymes company to an integrated biopharmaceutical company with strategic research initiatives.

As chairperson and mission leader of the National Task Force on Biotechnology she has led several delegations abroad. She serves on the Advisory Council of the government's Department of Biotechnology where she has been instrumental in bringing government, industry and academia together, to chart a clear and progressive growth path for biotechnology in India. Mostly recently, Shaw has been invited to join the Prime Minister's council on Trade & Industry.

Shaw is also the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Padma Shri in 1989 for her pioneering efforts in Industrial Biotechnology.

A successful technocrat of global standing, Shaw is highly respected in the corporate world. She is a much sought after biotech pioneer who has been referred to as 'India's Biotech Queen' by The Economist and 'India's mother of invention' by New York Times.

The 'ICC Lifetime Achievement Award' was instituted by ICC Calcutta Foundation, Indian Chamber of Commerce, in 1995 to honour distinguished men and women who had excelled in their fields and were acknowledged as global leaders in their disciplines.

The first award was conferred on sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, the second to Nobel laureate Dr Amartya Sen and the third to Prof Jagdish Bhagwati for his contributions in the field of international economic trade.
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