IMMC-11 International Medicinal Mushroom Conference, Belgrade, Serbia

Our team Dr. Siddharth P. Dubhashi (Principal Investigator, AIIMS Nagpur), Mr. Atik Patel (Director), and Mr. Gourvendra Gangwar (Director)attended and Participated in the 11^th International Medicinal Mushroom Conference which will be held in Belgrade, at the end of September 2022. We represented India and our research “Role of Cordyceps in Mild to Moderate Covid-19 Infection and efficacy as add-on Drug Therapy” among scientists & participants of 103 countries worldwide.

After more than two successful decades of the International Journal of Medicinal Mushroom (IJMM), launched in 1999 by Begell House Inc. (USA) and the organization of a series of ten International Medicinal Mushroom Conferences (IMMC), first one held in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2001., followed by  IMMC2 in Pattaya, Thailand, 2003;  IMMC3 in Port Townsend, Washington, USA, 2005; IMMC4 in Ljubljana, Slovenia 2007;  IMMC5 in Nantong, China, 2009.;  IMMC6  in Zagreb, Croatia 2011; IMMC7 in Beijing, China, 2013; IMMC8  in Manizales, Colombia 2015.; IMMC9  in Palermo, Italy 2017. and the IMMC10 in Nantong, China, 2019. we proudly participated presented one and only research from India in the 11^th IMMC, as the first International Conference in the third decade of the IMMC;

Belgrade is located on the confluence of Danube and Sava and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and maintains a vibrant city atmosphere today, with a population of 2 million people buzzing with life. For centuries it has been a meeting point among different civilizations and today among different scientists.