Soota commits Rs 200 cr for medical research centre in Bengaluru
Serial entrepreneur Ashok Soota on Sunday introduced Rs 200 crore funding to arrange Skan medical research belief in Bengaluru for ageing and neurological issues.
“The not-for-profit trust will conduct research with partners and in-house. For neurological research, the trust has tied up with the Centre for Brain Research (CBR) at the premier Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in the city,” mentioned Soota in a press release right here.
Soota, 78, is the co-founder of Happiest Minds Technologies Ltd and over 2 a long time in the past, co-founded software program main MindTree after serving as an government in international IT main Wipro.
Of the Rs 200-crore fund, Rs 100 crore shall be for companions like CBR, St John’s Hospital and state-run Nimhans in town and IIT at Roorkee in Uttarkhand.
As a part of consortium, CBR’s first research undertaking shall be on Parkinson’s illness, a dysfunction of the central nervous system that impacts motion.
Soota has additionally agreed to fund the centre for research in ageing and geriatrics at St John’s geriatrics centre in its hospital campus.
“In ageing, the research will be in community-based set-up and in neurological research, the plan will be to foray into areas like bipolar disorders, strokes and cerebro-vascular disorders,” he mentioned.
Admitting that it might take 10 years to construct a centre for ageing and neurological research, he mentioned the research will embody looking for kinder, gentler therapies.
“Delaying onset and slowing the progression of the disease and providing the affected a better quality of life even as they live with the illness,” added Soota.
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