Ravi Mazumdar

Biography

Prof. Ravi Rasandra Mazumdar has been a Non-Independent & Non-Executive Director of Biocon Ltd since August 08, 2000. Prior to this, Prof. Mazumdar obtained his B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1977 and his Masters in Science from the Imperial College of Science, London in 1978. He has been a professor in several prestigious universities including Purdue University, U.S.A Columbia University, U.S.A., University of Essex, U.K., Mc Gill University, Canada and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has over 100 refereed publications in international journals in the area of applied probability and stochastic processes, non-linear dynamical systems, statistical signal processing, queuing theory and in the control and design of high-speed networks. He has been a Member of several advisory committees and working groups, including the US Congress Sub-Committee on Science and Technology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Prof. Mazumdar completed his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA in 1983. He holds M. SC. DIC from Imperial College, London.

Research Interest

Biocon's major areas of research now include cancer, diabetes, and other auto-immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. Because of the high percentage of people in India who chew betel or tobacco, India accounts for eighty-six per cent of oral cancer in the world, known locally as "cancer cheek". Diabetes is prevalent, and people who do not wear shoes are at risk to have a minor scrape or injury develop into gangrene, or "diabetes foot".Biocon is also working on drugs to treat psoriasis, a skin pigment disease which can result in social ostracization.