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The new-look Serum: How Adar Poonawalla is looking to recapture the Covid windfall
Adar Poonawalla-led Serum Institute of India was the poster child of the fight against Covid-19 with Covishield. it is now undergoing a transformation by leveraging to shore up its finances, which fell off a cliff after the pandemic.

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Interview

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