All – Vijay Chandru

A growing scourge of rare genetic diseases and why it matters for India

It is estimated that India has anywhere between 50-100 million people suffering from rare genetic disorders. There are huge gaps in policy, health infrastructure, mental attitudes and diagnostics to be addressed. In addition, tackling rare diseases need changes at a deep-rooted societal level, which are harder to implement and overcome Read more>>

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Paraspar Lecture on Being Digital and Gandhian

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Nanoparticle Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 for Genome Editing

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The emerging clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated system (Cas) gene-editing system represents a promising tool for genome manipulation.

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Rare Diseases Remain Common in India

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Despite a national policy draft being put in place by the Central government, there’s a lack of awareness on the issue of rare diseases.

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Report: Status of Rare Diseases

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India has one of the largest number of rare disease patients in the world and has recently come with a draft policy on rare diseases. A panel consisting of experts in the rare disease space from India as well as globally renowned experts from academia, industry, patient groups, among others engages in a broad discussion and take stock of the state of rare diseases as well as the one year of the formulation of the Rare Disease Policy in India.

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The Avadis Story

All, Transformational / Global Innovation, Translational Research

Professor Chandru and his colleagues in computer science at IISc began an interdisciplinary journey at the interface of computation and biology in the mid-90s.

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People’s Computer

All, Transformational / Innovation, Translational Research

The Simputer project grew out of a multi-disciplinary dialogue conducted at the National Institute of Advanced Studies by its director Prof R Narasimha, the venerated social anthropologist Prof MN Srinivas and a dynamic young IAS officer Sanjay Biswas who was the IT Secretary of Karnataka in 1998.

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Artificial Intelligence

All, Transformational / Academic

Automated Theorem Proving, the cornerstone of “Strong AI”, refers to the ability to create intelligent machines that can implement the formal rules of deductive inference (modus ponens and modus tollens) and derive formal inferences from a set of axioms.

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Computational Geometry, Manufacturing and 3D Printing

All, Transformational / Academic, Translational Research

As a young assistant professor at Purdue, Chandru developed a new research area for himself around the computer manipulation of planar and solid geometric objects.

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