Dr Vinod Scaria FRSB, FRSPH was born on 9 March 1981 and is an Indian biologist, medical researcher pioneering in Precision Medicine and Clinical Genomics in India.
35 Facts About Vinod Scaria
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Vinod Scaria is best known for sequencing the first Indian genome.
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Vinod Scaria was instrumental in the sequencing of The first Sri Lankan Genome, analysis of the first Malaysian Genome sequencing and analysis of the Wild-type strain of Zebrafish and the IndiGen programme on Genomics for Public Health in India.
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Vinod Scaria is presently the Chief Data Officer at Karkinos Healthcare and an adjunct professor at the IIT Kanpur.
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Vinod Scaria was previously a senior scientist at CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology and an adjunct faculty at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi.
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Vinod Scaria's research has contributed to a number of commercially viable technologies for healthcare and public health applications.
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Vinod Scaria did his schooling in Silver Hills Public School, Kozhikode, India.
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Vinod Scaria studied for pre-degree course in St Joseph's College, Devagiri and completed his undergraduate studies in medicine and surgery from Calicut Medical College with gold medals in Biochemistry and Physiology.
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Vinod Scaria worked as a consultant for information technology at the Pain and Palliative Care society in Kozhikode.
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Vinod Scaria pioneered the use of social web for genome annotation, through mapping of TB genome.
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Dr Vinod Scaria has been involved in popularising personal genomics through meragenome.
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Vinod Scaria's research took a shift to Clinical Genomics in 2009 starting with the sequencing of the first Indian Genome in 2009.
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Vinod Scaria's research has led to know-how which has been successfully licensed to a number of commercial diagnostic entities and available to clinicians across India.
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Vinod Scaria has published over 150 papers in international journals.
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Vinod Scaria is the editorial board member of many reputed International Journals including PLOS ONE, PeerJ, International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases and Journal of Translational Medicine.
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Vinod Scaria was a member of senate of the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research.
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Vinod Scaria was conferred the CSIR Young Scientist Award for biological sciences for developing computational tools to analyse genomic data, by the Prime Minister of India in September 2012.
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Vinod Scaria is a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow of the US National Academy of Sciences, an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health.
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Vinod Scaria was one of the pioneers to be able to systematically analyse personal genome data to derive pharmacogenetic maps.
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Vinod Scaria research contributed to the first population-scale pharmacogenomic maps for India.
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Vinod Scaria has been pioneering the application of genomics to diagnose and solve rare genetic diseases in India, including discovering novel variants.
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Vinod Scaria co-authored a handbook on exome sequencing and analysis for clinicians.
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Vinod Scaria's lab has contributed to one of the most comprehensive evidence resources for mutation specific therapies in cancer.
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Genomics and other Omics Technologies to enable Medical Decisions Vinod Scaria has been involved in creating a unique programme along with his colleague Dr Mohammed Faruq which enable clinicians from across the country to tap into the rich expertise of CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in the area of genomics to enable fast and effective diagnosis of genetic diseases.
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Vinod Scaria has been pioneering the analysis of genomic data from Arab, Middle Eastern populations.
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Vinod Scaria's lab contributed to understanding the genetic landscape of Pharmacogenetics in Qatar.
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Vinod Scaria pioneered the use of whole genome data to understand the genetic epidemiology of prevalent diseases in the region, including Familial Mediterranean Fever.
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Vinod Scaria's lab created one of the largest and comprehensive allele frequency resource for Arab populations.
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Vinod Scaria is pioneering the creation of a comprehensive resource for disease variants in the Arab population, in collaboration with multiple researchers from the region.
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Vinod Scaria pioneered the application of genomics in transfusion medicine with the alnasab database, a comprehensive resource for blood group variants in Arabs.
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Vinod Scaria's group contributed to uncovering the first reports of COVID-19 reinfection in India and a comprehensive resource on reinfections.
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Vinod Scaria pioneered research into the genomic characterization of COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infections.
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Vinod Scaria's research reviewed the risk of monogenic diseases in COVID-19.
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Vinod Scaria has been instrumental in creating a comprehensive genomic surveillance programme for SARS-CoV-2 in the state of Kerala which has been able to provide early insights into variants and influencing policy.
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Vinod Scaria's group pioneered the EpidemicWatch network and the first participatory digital infection surveillance system Infectiradar in India.