Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 16 -- India should leverage its vast health and genomic datasets, artificial intelligence and its large pool of young researchers to accelerate drug discovery, biomarker identification and the delivery of affordable healthcare, said Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari, former Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), and former Director General, CSIR.
Delivering a lecture on 'Science 4.0: AI-enabled affordable and quality healthcare for all. Can India pole-vault' at BRIC-Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (BRIC-RGCB) here, Prof. Brahmachari said India already has extensive repositories of genomic, proteomic, metabolomic and population-level health data, but these datasets remain fragmented acros...