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Where India is going wrong in its goal to find new drugs

Understanding the basic biology of a disease is the key to finding new drugs, but in India, we have a dismal record in this area, due to critical gaps: reliance on biological data from Western populations, and inadequate support for local basic research

20 Apr 2026 8:45 pm