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US-based Indian couple’s Hepatitis B vaccine success
Washington - Krishna Ella went to venture capitalists in 1995 with a proposal to make a Hepatitis B vaccine for just a dollar a shot, but faced rejection.
The UK drug firm, SmithKline Beecham, was selling the product in the west for 20 times that amount at the time, and the venture capitalists thought that Ella could never come up with a cheaper form of the vaccine.
Undeterred, Krishan and his marketing manager wife Suchitra Ella sold their houses in America and India, abandoned their careers in the United States and left for Hyderabad to set up their own company.