How Wockhardt created India's first fully homegrown drug

India built one of the world's great pharmaceutical industries on the back of generics—affordable, high-quality medicines that reach billions globally. But originating a molecule entirely from scratch? That's a different endeavour.On May 30, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Zaynich—a novel intravenous antibiotic developed entirely by Mumbai-based Wockhardt—making it the first New Chemical Entity (NCE) fully invented, developed, and commercialised by an Indian pharmaceutical com