Dear esteemed members of the OSDD
community,
It is with
pleasure that we inform the OSDD community that OSDD has established a
CSIR-OSDD Research Unit at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore; as an
open lab for facilitating OSDD’s drug discovery efforts. The facility was
dedicated to the OSDD community by Dr. P. Balaram, Director, IISc in the
presence of Prof. S. K. Brahmachari, Chief Mentor OSDD, Sir Tom Blendell,
Cambridge University and Dr. T.S. Balganesh, Head OSDD Unit.
OSDD Research Unit @ IISc is an open lab where
any member of OSDD community is welcome to come in and spent time on any
research problem posted on the Sysborg portal. Dr. T.S. Balganesh, Head OSDD Unit
and renowned scientist on TB drug discovery will be functioning from the Unit
and will be available for guidance. Dr. U.C. Jaleel (jaleel.uc@gmail.com) will be the PI in
charge of the Unit.
As
there will be requests from multiple PI’s and as a number of collaborative
projects with IISc is also expected, you are requested to inform Dr. Jaleel in
advance to book your slot for your research visit. You will always be served on
a ‘first come first served’ basis. The address of the Unit is 2nd
Floor Society for Innovation and Development building, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore. You may contact the Unit by calling the OSDD helpline
080
23603411.
The
Unit also invites researchers on TB, Malaria, drug discovery and development to
spent short sabbatical periods doing specific projects of interest to the OSDD
community.
As
with all OSDD efforts, this Unit is dedicated to the neglected patients around
the world.
(zthomas@osdd.net)
