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

Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance

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

Early Career

Intermediate

Senior

Margdarshi

0-4 years post-PhD/MD

4-7 years post-PhD/MD

8-15 years post-PhD/MD

Leaders

4 levels of Fellowship support

20

09

-16

223 Awards

104 from India

119 from overseas

Support to many new institutions

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

“Brain Gain” …. Enabling Institutions

69 million committed in 2009-16

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

Investing in Leaders

Building Ecosystems

workshops@wellcomedbt.org

www.wellcomedbt.org/workshops

Leadership Workshops

Scientific Writing Workshops Science Communication Workshops

for PhD students & young researchers

Supporting Scientific exchanges @ National scientific meetings and workshops

Young Investigator Meetings