Growing Organs in a Petri Dish and Starting Labs in IIT Madras | Dr Anubama Rajan, ORGAMED Lab, IITM

[00:01:57] ORGAMED lab: What does growing mini organs on a dish mean?

[00:06:59] Impact of Organoids: How do they aid in research and medical trials?

[00:12:46] Dr. Anubama’s Journey: How did she get to organoids?

[00:17:19] The Pandemic Period: How was it for a researcher of lung disease?

[00:21:24] Return to India: Why return when conditions were better in the US?

[00:24:04] Department of Medical Sciences in IIT Madras: How and why did she join the department? 

[00:29:24] The Department of Medical Sciences and Technology: The programs and the faculty

[00:36:20] Future Scope and Career Prospects: What will graduates from the department do? 

[00:41:47] SCODER lab: What does it do and how is it structured?

[00:43:46] Faculty in Social Media Era: What does it feel like?

[00:49:06] Her Personal Life: How is it to be a woman in STEM?

[00:02:05] IIT Madras

[00:02:18] Dr. Anubama is on a panel with ISO [International Organization for Standardisation] and BIS [ Bureau of Indian Standards] for developing protocols for the creation of organoids

[00:07:34] The FDA has made calls to several labs asking for information on how to use organoids

[00:14:16] Dr. Anubama completed her graduation from Georgia State University 

[00:14:51] Dr. Anubama enrolled in the Baylor College of Medicine which she came across when she was looking for courses on virology or microbiology for her Ph.D course

[00:19:12] Institutions like the CDC [US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and NIH [National Institutes of Health] need to approve requests for working in Biosafety Level 3 Labs

[00:20:22] Dr. Cherry Kang is now the director of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

[00:21:42] A workshop from DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance gave Dr. Anubama the confidence that she could return to India and continue her research

[00:24:23] Dr. Anubama mentions University of Cambridge, Harvard University, Stanford University and MIT as examples of Universities that have both engineering and medical departments

[00:35:25] Students have to do an internship at AIIMS [All India Institute of Medical Sciences] after completing their second year in the department

[00:41:49] SCoEDR is the Shankar Center of Excellence for Diabetes Research at IIT Madras

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[00:02:21] Hans Clevers invented the technology of organoids

[00:14:58] Dr. Anthony Maresso was working on organoids at the Baylor College of Medicine 

[00:16:55] Dr. Anubama did her post doctorate work on lung organoids at Dr. Pedro A. Tony Piedra’s lab

[00:20:15] Dr. Gagandeep (Cherry) Kang was working with the Christian Medical College, Vellore 

[00:22:01] Dr. Shahid Jameel from the India Alliance Foundation speech on the changes in India’s funding ecosystem was an encouragement for Dr. Anubama

[00:24:48] Professor R Krishna Kumar is a senior professor in the Department of Medical Science and Technology and played a major role in setting up the Department

[00:25:01] Professor Boby George is the head of the Medical Science and Technology Department

[00:32:21] Professor Srikanth Vedantam is also one of the faculty at the Medical Sciences and Technology department

[00:40:16] Dr. Karthik Kailash is a spine surgeon who is also a visiting faculty at the department of Medical Sciences and Technology

[00:42:06] The SCoEDR lab is an initiative by Mr. Subramonian Shankar, an IIT Madras alumnus

[01:00:32] Dr. Pradeeba Sridhar and Dr. Rupsa Bhattacharjee write the programs and coding languages to enable a clinical result from the DMST lab data

[00:02:06] Organoid Biology is the study of miniature 3D tissue cultures called organoids, which are grown from stem cells in a laboratory setting to mimic the structure and function of organs

[00:15:46] E.Coli (Escherichia coli) is the most frequently identified bacterium in diarrheal cases across India. Different strains of E.Coli are responsible for a range of illnesses, including traveller’s diarrhoea and dysentery

[00:33:49] Cardio Mechanics refers to the study of how the heart pumps blood, involving the physical process of the heart muscle contracting and relaxing