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Publication of this supplement was supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle, WA), Genome Canada (Ottawa, Canada), McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine (Toronto, Canada) and the Rockefeller Foundation (New York, NY). Special thanks to Archana Bhatt, Zoe Costa-von Aesch and James Renihan for patent analysis, Éric Archambault, Frédéric Bertrand and Grégoire Côté at Science-Metrix (Montréal, Canada) for analysis of publication data and to N. K. Ganguly for providing facilities to carry out the work for this project, Vasantha Muthuswamy and Fabio Salamanca-Buentello for guidance and the 38 Indian experts for their valuable time and input. The Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health is primarily supported by Genome Canada through the Ontario Genomics Institute and by the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund. Funding partners are listed at http://www.geneticsethics.net. A.S.D. is supported by the McLaughlin Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Toronto. P.A.S. is supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Distinguished Investigator award.
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Kumar, N., Quach, U., Thorsteinsdóttir, H. et al. Indian biotechnology—rapidly evolving and industry led. Nat Biotechnol 22 (Suppl 12), DC31–DC36 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1204supp-DC31
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