The Role of Microbial Fermentation in Drug Manufacturing Kumar Jeetendra | November 9, 2025 In the era of changing pharmaceutical innovation paradigms, microorganisms are still the unseen engineers of some of the most life-saving drugs known to humankind. Since the discovery of antibiotics and recombinant proteins to their production on a large scale, microbial fermentation has been the cornerstone of today’s biopharmaceutical industry. Using the metabolic potential of bacteria, fungi, and …