Founder and Ceo is the largest shareholder holding
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Dr. Isa Odidi of Intellipharmaceutics (Nasdaq:IPCI) (TSX:I) is easily one of the sector's genius drug delivery innovators. While he was at Biovail, Odidi was performing drug alchemy with formulations that mimicked several hard-to-manufacture generic versions of expensive drugs- among them, Pfizer’s (NYSEFE) Procardia XL, Bayer’s (BAYRY.PK) Adalat CC, and Novartis’ (NYSE:NVS) Voltaren XR. While serving as the company’s Vice President of Research of Drug Development and New Technologies he helped grow Biovail through its adolescence.
As difficult as the scientific process was, the business plan was simple. Odidi and his team worked out the chemical composition to develop the drugs and pushed their versions through the regulatory process at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Once approved, the company licensed the drugs to different companies and collected royalties. While Odidi perfected his science and learned to navigate the FDA process, Biovail grew into a 10+billion market cap company