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">
ML: Can you tell us a
little about your background and your childhood? AVR: I have seen your other
interviews where everybody seems to be a topper. Let me be very frank. I was
never a topper in school. My father was a state government employee who got
transferred frequently. I was the first child and used to move around with my
parents. Usually, by the time I finished half a...
