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Google and Microsoft Boosts Healthcare with Major Investment in Precision Medicine Start-up

The start-up company aims to leverage its footprint in genomic data management for clinical trials through this funding. DNA nexus CEO Richard Daly asserts that “The financing enables further development and the launch of our translational medicine solutions, as well as expanding our footprint in cloud-based management of genomic data in clinical trials, Precision medicine refers to precise cloud based data driven solutions.


Healthcare can be India’s next IT sector

India is already the pharmacy of the world, she said, and hoped for more engagement of the government’s imagination with the sector. “Sixty per cent of the vaccines that are produced for the world come from India, why are we not really thinking about vaccine diplomacy for the world?” The opportunities that are there in the other parts of the world must be created in India, she said. India’s healthcare system has come together and done well in managing the covid crisis, she said, which points to the fact that we have the talent and resources. “It is time that policies have to be in a way as it was done for the IT sector,”

Kerala can become a lab of new ideas

Stressing on the need for new models for creating new opportunities Pitroda said an ‘Indian model development’ was required to gain control over manufacturing sector which is now ‘China-centric’. "The world has lost its direction. Ongoing deliberations on development are still based on World Bank, IMF, GDP and GNP, which are development models envisaged 75 years ago and now obsolete," Pitroda said that RGIDS could also contribute greatly in achieving this new order and extended his complete support for any such initiative.