Genomic applications in Medicine & Health

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Developing Indian Physician Scientists

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Dhavendra Kumar

7-9 December 2018, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, CSIR, New Delhi; hosted by the India Alliance of the Wellcome Trust (UK) and the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.

Professor Kumar served on the Faculty of this highly sought after training workshop led by the India Alliance. This workshop is intended to generate interest and support few selected medical and postgraduate medical graduates with an aim to develop future generation of clinician scientists. He introduced the complex clinical scenarios highlighting the scope and challenges of genome sequencing in current and future medical practice. The feedback has been very good with prospects of continued collaboration in future workshops within the remit of the UK India Genomic Medicine Alliance, one of the leading projects of the Genomic Medicine Foundation (UK).