Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance Enabling Biomedical Research in India through Funding and Engagement 160 million partnership 2008-09 to 2018-19 223 Fellows 66 Institutions Basic, Clinical and Public Health Brain Gain Enhancing the ecosystem
IGIB, ICGEB, NII, NBRC, RCB, THSTI, PHFI, AIIMS, IIT-D IISER Mohali, Punjab University, IMTECH, PGIMER IIT Kanpur, CDRI, SGPGI, Univ Allahabad, IIT Roorkee IISER Bhopal IIT Gandhinagar, TIFR, IIT Bombay, JJ Hospital, ACTREC, Grant Medical NCL, NCCS, IISER Pune Sangath, Goa IISC, NCBS, InStem, IoB, UAS, JNCASR, St Johns, NIMHANS, Ramaiah, Mazumdar Shaw, ATREE, CSMMH Mysore RGCB, IISER Trivandrum Bose Inst, IACS, NIBMG, IICB, Tata Memorial, Presidency Univ, IISER Kolkata, IIT Kharagpur ILS, LVPEI Bhubaneswar CDFD, AIG, CCMB, IIPH, LVPEI, George Inst Hyderabad IIT Madras CMC Vellore
4 levels of Fellowship support Margdarshi Senior Leaders 8-15 years post-phd/md Intermediate 4-7 years post-phd/md Early Career 0-4 years post-phd/md
2009-16 Brain Gain. Enabling Institutions Support to many new institutions 223 Awards 104 from India 119 from overseas 69 million committed in 2009-16 IISERs Bhopal, Kolkata, Mohali, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram PHFI / IIPH New Delhi, Hyderabad George Institute of Public Health Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology National Institute Biomedical Genomics, Kolkata Tata Memorial Hospital, Kolkata Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, Faridabad Regional Centre for Biotechnology Institute for Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Hyderabad Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar
India Alliance Fellows have won important awards Dr. Shantanu Chaudhury, IGIB, New Delhi Senior Fellow 2010 SS Bhatnagar Prize in Biological Sciences 2012 Prof. Yamuna Krishnan, NCBS, Bangalore Senior Fellow 2010 SS Bhatnagar Prize in Chemistry 2013 & Cell 40 under 40 Prof. Roop Mallik, TIFR, Mumbai Senior Fellow 2011 SS Bhatnagar Prize in Biological Sciences 2014
India Alliance Margdarshi Fellows Science Leaders Prof. Vaskar Saha, Translational Cancer Research Center, Tata Medical Centre, Kolkata Acute Childhood Leukemia Prof. Anura Kurpad, St John's Medical College, Bangalore Public Health Nutrition Prof. Satyajit Mayor, National Centre for Biological Research (NCBS), Bangalore Cell and Molecular Biology Prof. Akhilesh Pandey, National Institute for Mental Health and Neurological Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore Centre for Molecular Medicine
Prof Vaskar Saha Translational Cancer Research Center, Tata Medical Centre, Kolkata Margdarshi Fellow (Clinician) Standardizing therapy for children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in India and developing Prognostic Biomarkers for childhood ALL with a systems medicine approach
Dr Amit Dutt ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai Intermediate Fellow Basic Biomedical Research Fellowship Developed a novel computational tool for detection of Human papillomavirus (HPV)
Dr Lolitika Mandal Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali Intermediate Fellow Basic Biomedical Research Fellowship Breakthrough research on formation of blood cells using a Drosophila (fruit fly) model
Dr Nikhil Patkar ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai Intermediate Fellow Clinical and Public Health Research Fellowship Developed cost effective method for monitoring chronic myeloid leukemia
Dr Bushra Ateeq Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Intermediate Fellow Basic Biomedical Research Fellowship First to elucidate the genetic profile of prostate cancer patients from the Indian subcontinent
Dr Padmavathy Bakthavathsalam Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh Early Career Fellow Basic Biomedical Research Fellowship Developed smartphone integrated real-time molecular diagnostic device Patent: PCT/IN2016/050263
Dr Tavpritesh Sethi All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi Early Career Fellow Clinical and Public Health Research Fellowship Big Data in Health - Early detection of Sepsis in Pediatric ICUs
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