Deadly black fungus, which has emerged as a new ailment during the Covid19 second wave, has been hounding and harassing those who become infected by this disease. One of the most effective medicines to treat this disease happens to be liposomal amphotericin B.
A Kannadiga from coastal Karnataka, Bhandya Srikanth Pai, had led a team of researchers of Bharat Serums and Vaccines Ltd that put in laborious work to find this medicine.
Srikanth is from Gangolli near here. He completed his high school and PU education at Gangolli and Kundapur before getting his BPharma course at Bengaluru in 1975 and securing MPharma degree from Manipal in 1977.
He then joined Bharat Serums and Vaccines Ltd in Mumbai