Calling Students to participate in the "Connect to Decode 2010" Programme
Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) Project in its quest towards conquest of Tuberculosis, is launching a massive initiative to further the understanding of the biology of the causative organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The objective is to accelerate the discovery of novel drugs for TB, a disease neglected by Pharmaceutical enterprises.
Though Mtb was sequenced a decade back, the standard databases have not annotated in real biological processes, more than 1000 of the near 4000 genes encoded by the organism. This is symptomatic of the problem of neglected diseases of the poor.
OSDD is taking up the challenge of annotating all possible genes in Mtb and hopes that your Institution would join this massive effort.
The project requires a faculty coordinator and student contributors from the college. For students this would be their summer project, the successful completion of which would fetch them a certificate from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). All the projects are managed by experts in the field. For the faculty coordinators, it is an opportunity to interact with leading scientists working in this field. Since the project has great significance in the conquest of TB, we expect serious student involvement and competent faculty monitoring. The best coordinators, student contributors and the best college centers would receive awards. The project is scheduled between December ‘09 and March ’10.
The best students and faculty would be invited for an international conference on TB in April ’10.
If interested, you are requested to send the name of the faculty coordinator with his/her CV and the list of participating student contributors by 30th November 2009 (extended) by email to the OSDD Project Director, Mr. Zakir Thomas (zt@csir.res.in)
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