Advinus Ex-CEO's Bitter-Sweet Journey And Lessons Learnt

Life appears to have come full circle for Advinus Therapeutics' co-founder and former CEO and managing director, Dr Rashmi Barbhaiya, who recently moved back to the US from India. And it has been a bitter-sweet journey, replete with some peaks and troughs, although the man himself would rather term any lows as "lessons learned" that come with the territory.

"It is with mixed feelings I have returned to US after relentless pursuit of 14 years. I do want to keep the reins of my destiny in my hand," Barbhaiya, who began his industrial pharmaceutical career in 1980 with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.in the US, told Scrip in an interview. He also lamented the limited understanding of investors in India of pharma R&D, but more on that later.

Barbhaiya, who was born in India, returned to the country from the US in 2002 to take charge as president...

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