We want to become the no. 1 diagnostics provider in the world: Mylab MD

'The Mylab ecosystem is capable of providing solutions'

Pune-headquartered Mylab Discovery Solutions, which is backed by Adar Poonawalla of Serum Institute of India (SII), has recently sold a 6.5 per cent stake to Zydus Lifesciences arm. The company came into the limelight during Covid-19 when it first developed an indigenous self-testing real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain kit to test the Sars-CoV-2 virus. Mylab Co-Founder and Managing Director HASMUKH RAWAL, in conversation with Sohini Das over the phone, outlines his plans. Edited excerpts.

With Zydus Animal Health and Investments (ZAHIL) picking up stake, are you now focusing on veterinary tests?

Zydus Lifesciences has invested through its subsidiary ZAHIL, but our