Dr. Baskaran Viswanathan did his doctoral studies in Applied Microbiology at M S Swaminathan research foundation. He is currently working as a senior scientist- Microbiology R&D at Salem microbes private limited. He is mainly focused on combating AMR where phages are being used as a therapeutic agent to control pathogens in aquaculture system. He is also working on developing novel therapeutic products and alternate to traditional antibiotics.