Krishna Ella, chairman & MD,  Bharat Biotech

Krishna Ella

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	Krishna Ella is an Indian scientist and is the founder, chairman, and managing director of Bharat Biotech. Ella&#39;s company Bharat Biotech has developed India&#39;s first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine, Covaxin.</div>
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	<strong>Life and Education</strong></div>
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	Krishna Ella was born in 1969 in Tamil Nadu&#39;s Tiruvallur. He did his bachelor&#39;s from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and obtained Master&#39;s degree from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. He completed his master&#39;s from the University of Hawaii on a Rotary fellowship. He has attained a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.</div>
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	Ella is married to Shucitra Ella, and the couple has one son together.<br />
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	<strong>Career</strong></div>
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	Ella started his career with Bayer, a pharmaceutical and life sciences company but left it to pursue higher education in the US.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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	He suggested Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu in 1996 to set up a biotech knowledge park, which is now called Genome Valley.</div>
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	After returning to India, he set up Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad in 1999.</div>
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	Bharat Biotech launched a preservative-free vaccine (Revac-B mcf Hepatitis B Vaccine), the first company to do so. It also launched India&rsquo;s first cell-cultured Swine Flu vaccine.</div>
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	Ella&#39;s company launched the Hepatitis B vaccine in 1999, at Rs 10 per dose in 1999. Bharat Biotech manufactures the world&#39;s cheapest Hepatitis vaccine. It is also the first pharmaceutical company in the world to find vaccines for the Zika virus.</div>
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	Bharat Biotech also developed India&#39;s first indigenous vaccine for coronavirus, Covaxin.</div>
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	Krishna Ella and his wife Suchitra Ella were conferred Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award in India, in January 2022.&nbsp;</div>

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