Prof. Dr. Anurag Agrawal

Anurag Agrawal is Director of the CSIR Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (IGIB). He graduated in medicine from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1994, followed by specialization in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, (2003) and a PhD in physiology. His research in respiratory health has covered a full spectrum from molecular pathobiology to informatics and epidemiology, leading to new directions in respiratory health. Dr Agrawal believes data analytics, with artificial intelligence applications, to be the new frontier of medicine and is actively engaged in promoting the confluence of biomedicine and informatics. He is also an advocate of smart deployment of emerging technologies for affordable and equitable high-quality wellness care His work has been recognized nationally and internationally in the form of prestigious awards, including the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar prize and the National Bioscience Award, senior fellowship of the Welcome Trust-DBT India Alliance, and elected fellowship of Indian National Science Academy and Indian Academy of Sciences. A member of many advisory boards of government and private organizations in India, he is also the co-chair of the forthcoming Lancet and Financial Times Global Commission, Governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world, with a mandate to explore the convergence of digital health, AI and other frontier technologies towards universal health coverage; with a special focus on improving the health of children and young people.