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Published online 10 September 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/455151b
Wellcome Trust goes into partnership with India
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Indeed, partnership between Department of Biotechnology and Wellcome Trust will be expected to go a long way in elevating current status of biomedical research in India to much greater heights. I would just like to highlight here that reversing brain drain is one thing and preventing brain drain in the first place itself is quite another. In brief, India should now also start aiming at the latter.
This is a welcome news from Welcome trust. This partnership will foster the relationship between the biomedics in future and it is vital for both the countries. In this era of colloborative research, this move is critical and would benefit the whole community.
This collaboration could definitely be useful in providing the impetus to the ongoing efforts towards elevating the level of biomedical research in India. The most crucial aspect is however to build state-of-the-art infrastructure at existing and new institutions.This would mean institutional/core/group grants apart from the individual PI centered awards. Such measure will help reverse the brain drain or stop it from happening, at all. Excellent manpower without futuristic infrastructure would be like given a wish without the power to make it come true.
I would like to thank Wellcome Trust for trusting in India's potential to move forward in biomedical research. Only time can answer how exactly is this going to reverse brain drain and/or save India from brain draining. Any plan of action to this effect that the rest of the world can see would be encouraging. In any case, KUDOS to Wellcome Trust and Indian DBT for taking the first big step.
Thanks to the Indian economy, we already can notice a reversal in the brain drain. However, the bureaucracy in the public funded institutes seem to be a lot to overcome and is a distraction of real science. The collaboration between Wellcome Trust and Indian Govt is a great news. I hope funds through Wellcome Trust will ease this burden and let the scientists concentrate more on science.
Thanks to the Indian economy, we already can notice a reversal in the brain drain. However, the bureaucracy in the public funded institutes seem to be a lot to overcome and is a distraction from real science. The collaboration between Wellcome Trust and Indian Govt is a great news. I hope funds through Wellcome Trust will ease this burden and let the scientists concentrate more on science.