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Khanna’ s success is an excellent example of translational research at ICGEB. He has shown the path to young scientists. The translational research that was looked down upon earlier, is now being looked at as the future.
Q: Even Nobel laureates agreed during recent discussion that both basic and translational research is important. Your comments?
Of course, both are important. Dividing scientific research into discovery and translation is not a fair. If we go into the history of science in India, we will see that at various stages in the past we had people doing fundamental research became very important pillars of translational research. Whatever investments and research was done over many decades is giving fruits now.
14 BioVoiceNews | February 2017