Founded by Shri I.A. Modi, Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is one of the largest privately held pharmaceutical companies in India, headquartered at Ahmedabad, in the State of Gujarat. Over the last seven decades, the company has been developing and manufacturing pharmaceutical products in India and selling and distributing these in over hundred other countries around the world. Focused strongly on Innovation and Research, the company is present in more than forty-five therapeutic areas spread across twelve specialities, including cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, analgesics, haematinics, anti-infectives and antibiotics, respiratory agents, antidiabetics and immunologicals.