ZYDUSLIFE

Zydus Lifesciences Ltd. engages in the discovery, development, and manufacture of pharmaceutical products under Zydus brand. The company is headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and currently employs 23,026 full-time employees. The firm is engaged in the research and development, manufacturing, marketing and selling of finished dosage human formulations, such as generics and specialty formulations, including biosimilars and vaccines; active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs); animal healthcare products, and consumer wellness products. Its products include Bilypsa (saroglitizar), Oxemia (desidustat), Ujvira (biosimilar Kadcyla), and Exemptia. The company offers Bilypsa drug for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Desidustat is an oral, small molecule hypoxia-inducible factor-prolyl hydroxylase (HIF-PH) inhibitor, which is used for the treatment of anemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. The company is also developing an oral small molecule ZYIL1, targeted at selectively suppressing inflammation caused by the NLRP3 inflammasome. Its ZyCoV-D is a plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) vaccine for COVID-19.