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Below, we share the stories of three projects at IBAB, each of which began with a societal gap area and was built, end to end, into an experiment designed to answer it through genomics; a philosophy of advancing training and research in tandem, at a time when the field itself was evolving fast.
NGS liberated developing countries from their dependence on the West for defining and pursuing their own research priorities. For the first time, the ability to generate and analyze genomic data was becoming accessible enough that countries could build biological resources around questions of national importance. For me, one such question emerged very early: Could genomics help India address protein malnutrition, control malaria, find hidden cause for rare genetic disorders within families?
But How? Where to begin?