Jeremy Levin
Independent Director
Technical
Biocon
India
Biography
Dr. Jeremy M Levin is Additional Independent Director of the company. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Zoology and a Masters of Arts and a Doctorate in the structure of Chromatin from the University of Oxford. In addition he received degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Cambridge. He is Chairman and CEO of Ovid Therapeutics, Inc. a private company developing novel medicines for orphan diseases of the brain. Prior to Ovid, he worked as President and CEO of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. where he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. He has also served as a member of the executive committee of Bristol-Myers Squibb and as a senior executive in Novartis AG. He is the recipient of a number of awards including the Kermode Prize for work on novel hypertension drugs, the Albert Einstein Award for Leadership in Life Sciences, the B’nai B’rith Award for Distinguished Achievement and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.
Research Interest
Chemical Engineering Biochemical Enigneering
