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How did a firm create India's 1st FDA-approved antibiotic with a molecule that never existed?
short by Bhawana Chaudhary / on Friday, 5 June, 2026
Mumbai-based Wockhardt's Zaynich has become the first New Chemical Entity (NCE) to be fully invented, developed and commercialised by an Indian pharmaceutical company and cleared by US FDA. NCE is a molecule that never existed before and Zaynich is an injectable antibiotic for complicated urinary tract infections. Zaynich has entered a global antibiotic market valued at $9 billion.
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