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Episode 08: Water and health with Vishwanath S

Thanks everyone for joining us on this journey as we discover the ecosystem around infectious disease research, practice and policy in India. In this episode of IDRF Speaks we speak to Vishwanath S – a.k.a zenrainman, Director of the Biome Environmental solutions and trustee of the the Biome Trust – working on -“Facilitating livelihood-centered sustainable …

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Episode 07: Virology and Brain Infections in India – on World Encephalitis Day

Interview with Dr. V. Ravi Hi Everyone, Welcome to another episode of IDRFSpeaks- Thanks for joining us on this journey as we discover the ecosystem around infectious disease research, practice and policy in India. February 22, is World Encephalitis Day – a day for us to raise awareness about brain infections. Brain infections, which include …

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Episode 06: Responding to market forces in infectious diseases

An interview with Dr. Vasan Sambandamurthy Welcome to IDRFSpeaks – a podcast about infectious diseases in India. In this episode of IDRF Speaks we spoke to Dr Vasan Sambandamurthy, Senior Vice President – Global Strategy & Operations, Bugworks : “a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company is harnessing the power of science to develop affordable, accessible, novel …

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Episode 05: Molecular virology, Hepatitis C, and sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 in India

Interview with Prof. Saumitra Das In Episode 05 of IDRF Speaks we caught up with Prof. Saumitra Das, Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology of the Indian Institute of Science. He is a molecular virologist who works on Hepatitis C Virus and was among the first scientists to describe iRNA or host …

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Episode 04: Insights from Modeling Infectious Diseases in India

Interview with Prof. Gautam Menon For Episode 04 of IDRF Speaks, I spoke to Prof. Gautam Menon, Professor of Physics and Biology at Ashoka University. I heard his public talk early in the pandemic and met him in early March 2020. Prof. Menon has been thinking about/modeling infectious diseases and how viruses spread in the …

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