People

• Team India Alliance

  For us, being a mission-driven team means working to enable internationally competitive biomedical research, to identify best researchers in India, to nurture them as future leaders, and to build a research ecosystem to ensure impact and excellence.

  

• Reflections

  • “As it completes its first decade, this is an opportune moment for the India Alliance to draft its priorities for the next phase – to look ahead with even greater courage and go forth even more boldly. Just as the Alliance was started by not doing simply more of the same, you must now open a new path.”

    
    Shri Ram Nath Kovind
    Hon'ble President of India

  • “Being a clinician, I understand the need to focus on biomedical research and integrate clinicians in the scientific research force to meet the global health challenges. I am glad to see the India Alliance, the partnership of DBT and Wellcome Trust, has tried to breach the gap between clinical practice and scientific research.”

    
    Dr. Harsh Vardhan
    Hon’ble Union Minister for Science & Technology & Earth Sciences
    Government of India

  • “As an established and respected international partnership, we can do more than fund people with great ideas. We must push ourselves in our second decade to do more. We can use our focus on excellence, our experience, expertise and authority to influence the contexts in which ideas progress, and to make sure they can generate the maximum possible benefit for the largest number.”

    
    Prof. Jeremy Farrar
    Director, Wellcome Trust

  • “Partnerships like the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance are very important to build not only our research collaborations but also to help build capacity for our researchers and students. In 10 years, the India Alliance has become a benchmark for excellence in research.”

    
    Dr. Renu Swarup
    Secretary, Department of Biotechnology
    Government of India

  • “The 10th year anniversary is a good time for reflection and launching a new vision. There are many gaps that we strive to fill in our quest for diversity, efficiency, equality, (good) outcomes and transparency in science, and the way it links to society both in a local as well as global sense."

    
    Dr. Shahid Jameel
    CEO, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance
    

  • “Foundational development of basic science leading to consequential effects on our society and economy is important. This message will be critical in the next phase of the India Alliance, as we try to strengthen the foundation and increase the footprint of biomedical science.”

    
    Prof. K. VijayRaghavan
    Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt. of India