Hetero Drugs

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Hetero Drugs Limited is an Indian Pharmaceutical Company established in the year 1993. Hetero Drugs Limited founded by Dr. B. Partha Saradhi Reddy Phd., a scientist and expert in chemistry. It was started by him with a vision to be recognised as an aggressive company that combines its strength of R&D and manufacturing with definite advantages in terms of cost and chemistry with a strong emphasis on Quality of the products.

Hetero has revenues over $500 million and employs over 5000 people. Hetero is a strong player in API and finished dosages and its manufacturing plants have U.S. Food and Drug Administration approvals and World Health Organization approvals. It has marketing presence in over 100 countries.

Hetero Drugs is the parent company in the Hetero group of companies and other companies which are part of the group are Hetero Labs, Hetero Research Foundation, Symed Labs Limited, Cirex Laboratories, Genx Laboratories and also foreign subsidiaries such as Invagen Inc., in USA and Richmand Labs in Argentina, etc., Also now Hetero has its own retail chain of pharmacy outlets in India named as Hetero Pharmacy.

They were awarded licence to make generic oseltamivir Tamiflu. Swiss firm Rochehas licensed Hetero Drugs an Indian company in 2005 to make a generic version of its anti-flu treatment Tamiflu for India and other developing countries.The drug is widely seen as the most promising treatment for combating any future pandemic of bird flu in humans.The company says Hetero Drugs is among the first to demonstrate that it is technically capable of making a reliable generic version of Tamiflu. The decision could make it easier and cheaper for poorer nations to acquire stocks of the drug.

Also now in 2009, As the swine flu outbreak is spreading across the globe and various health organizations and government agencies are piling up stocks of oseltamivir as precautionary measure, Hetero is helping many countries including India by supplying the generic oseltamivir under its brand name fluvir.