Sunday, December 4, 2011

Introduction


            Ryan-tech Pharmaceuticals Sdn. Bhd. is a generic drug company which targets and produces generic drugs for originally patented drugs that has its patent expired. The company is currently working to produce a generic drug for olanzapine, with its trade name Zyprexa, manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company, which has its patent expired on April 23, 2011. A generic drug will be produced, and it will be named Olanxa.
Olanzapine was formulated to serve as a neuroleptic drug for bipolar disorder and schiziphrenia, which are types of mental disorder. As the world population is growing, lifestyle in the current society is getting a faster pace day by day, as well as with increasing stress and burden. The increase of living cost, the pressure from work and family, as well as the stress from all other sources are some major cause of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia as well as some other mental illness. The ultimate goal of the company is to produce a generic drug based on olanzapine which can effectively treat and control the effects of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia on its patient compared with its original drugs and other future generics.
This company was co-founded on 2nd November, 2011 from a partnership between academic researcher Dr. See Woan Yueh and her research team with venture capitalist Mr. Ryan Chong Wai Kit. Currently the ownership of the company was shared among the two individual mentioned above.
Currently the corporal and management affairs of the company are being managed by one of the owner and co-founder of the company, Mr. Ryan Chong Wai Kit as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with the help of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to advice and manage issues regarding financial affairs. Another co-founder and partner, Dr. See Woan Yue will involve in coordinating the scientific research and production line as the post of Chief Scientific Officer (CSO).