If outsourced research is the buzzword, Dr AV Rama Rao ought to be its icon. He runs India’s only scientific research lab as a business venture. His company Avra Laboratories provides technical services, process technologies and synthesis of new chemical entities for world's leading drug companies like GD Searle, Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb. From extremely humble origins of rural Andhra Pradesh, Dr Rama Rao became an innovative scientist with National Chemical Laboratory in" /> If outsourced research is the buzzword, Dr AV Rama Rao ought to be its icon. He runs India’s only scientific research lab as a business venture. His company Avra Laboratories provides technical services, process technologies and synthesis of new chemical entities for world's leading drug companies like GD Searle, Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb. From extremely humble origins of rural Andhra Pradesh, Dr Rama Rao became an innovative scientist with National Chemical Laboratory in" /> If outsourced research is the buzzword, Dr AV Rama Rao ought to be its icon. He runs India’s only scientific research lab as a business venture. His company Avra Laboratories provides technical services, process technologies and synthesis of new chemical entities for world's leading drug companies like GD Searle, Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb. From extremely humble origins of rural Andhra Pradesh, Dr Rama Rao became an innovative scientist with National Chemical Laboratory in">