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vi Jain Managing Director and ing an entire prophylactic stack a born digital initiative led by IIT Alumni Council is the
founding shareholder of Krs- that is upgradeable and not just the fabled IIT alumni commu- largest global body of alumni
naa Diagnostics, a MegaLab a single onetime remedy. Pro- nity, the 360-degree approach across all the twenty-three IITs
partner organization funded by phylactics, therapeutics and taken by the IIT Alumni Coun- and partnering Institutes of
a MegaFund partner Fund. tonics are all essential to pre- cil from prevention to wellness the India Innovation Network
All the four MegaLab part- vent, heal and regenerate from is unprecedented. Converting (I2Net).
ner organizations are expected this affliction. Here is a remark- social ventures with zero reve- The C19 Task Force was
to trace a similar path as Krs- able convergence of neoteric nue to serve as the foundation set up by the Global Board
naa for creation of listed uni- technologies and data science to create listed unicorns with- of the IIT Alumni Council in
corns in keeping with the vision complementing modern and in months is disruptive. This March 2020 to supplement
MoU signed between BSE and traditional systems of health approach can radically trans- and complement the efforts of
the IIT Alumni Council. and medicine! I have always be- form the start-up ecosystem the central and state govern-
At almost warp speed the lieved that the whole is greater in India, added Ms Mrinalini ments in the fight against C19.
IIT Alumni Council has assem- than the sum of its parts, added Gupta, Executive Director of Its term ended on August 15th,
bled a formidable force across Ms Christina Watson, Found- the Ashmolean Fund, a Mega- 2020. Initiatives catalyzed by
the continents and disciplines er of Wellness Lifestyle and Fund partner. Mrinalini is one the Task Force successfully in-
for Covid 19 prevention. Their Board Member of Digital India, of India’s best known branding clude the NSCI Dome, Covid
Covid initiative has won both a MegaFund partner fund. experts and was among the first Test Bus, MegaLab, MegaTx
my admiration and allegiance. Clearly the MegaLab format set of volunteers to join the C19 and MegaIncubator. The India
One that particularly appeals has huge potential at a global Task Force. She led the brand- Vaccine Stack initiative is being
to me is their take on develop- level for multiple diseases. As ing team that created the brand. launched on June 1, 2021.

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