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Bio Spectrum
|March 2025
Dr Raghavan Varadarajan, Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru has won the Tata Transformation Prize 2024 in the healthcare category, with a prize money of Rs 2 crore.
Dr Varadarajan is currently working to develop a cost-effective Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine that will allow for greater access to wide-spread deployment of vaccination programmes. To find out more about his research and the current scenario of RSV vaccine development in India, BioSpectrum spoke, at length, with Dr Raghavan Varadarajan. Edited excerpts:
At the outset, congratulations for winning the prestigious Tata Transformation Prize 2024. What are your plans post this achievement?
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