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                                             covid-19 crisis in india




          IIT alumni Council to home deliver first




         Home-Grown Fourth Generation Vaccine






                 Mobile vaccination labs to facilitate concurrent clinical trials,


           vaccine upgrades, vaccination, pre and post vaccination feedback




        Our Bureau

        New Delhi
            IT Alumni Council has
            decided to help re-invent
        Ithe clinical trial and vacci-
        nation  process.  This  will  help
        reduce timelines inherent in
        the sequential process of virus
        characterization, vaccine de-
        velopment, clinical trials, mass
        vaccination and post vaccina-
        tion feedback.


        digital wearables and a

        secure community portal

        will create instantaneous

        feedback and facilitate

        real time research.  the                                                                                      managed Indus Somerset Fund,
        vaccine will be first made                                                                                    a MegaFund affiliate provided

        available to  iit  alumni                                                                                     venture capital funding.  The
                                                                                                                      company  recently  filed  for  an
        and their families.  once                                                                                     IPO and could be on track to

        process is perfected, it                                                                                      becoming  the  first  listed  uni-
                                                                                                                      corn in the covid space.
        will be made available                                                                                            In April 2020, I was one of
        globally, said ravi sharma,                                                                                   the first volunteers to reach the
                                                                                                                      Poddar Hospital facility.
        president of the iit alum-                                                                                       The vision outlined by

        ni council.                                                                                                   the Council was compelling
                                                                                                                      enough for me stay back for

            On 1st May, 2020 the Ma-                                                                                  weeks in what was meant to
        harashtra Chief Minister had         market leader in tele-radiol- work done by their Managing                be a day trip. I got full support
                                                                                                                      from  our  investors.  All  I  had
                                             ogy. Krsnaa used remote doc- Director at the NSCI Dome
        flagged off India’s first covid-19   tors and AI to facilitate speed  and the covid test bus laid the         was my entrepreneurial zeal,
        testing bus. This IIT Alumni         diagnosis and patient isolation  foundation for Krsnaa to en-            leadership qualities and quick
        Council initiative was powered       in high-risk clusters of Mumbai  ter and lead the Covid testing          decision making alongside by
        by Krsnaa Diagnostics, a diag-
        nostics company which was the        and Pune. The volunteering  business. The IIT Alumnus                       Continued on next page... >>

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