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Our CEO, Dr. Jugnu Jain, wins Niti-Aaayog’s Women Transforming India Award on International Women’s Day, March 2020.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grg30L36B50   The Women Transforming India (WTI) Awards is NITI Aayog’s annual initiative to highlight the commendable and groundbreaking endeavours of India’s women leaders and changemakers. In 2018, the Awards were brought under the aegis of NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) and have had a special focus on entrepreneurship ever since. Through the WTI Awards, […]

Our Biobank cited in cover story of India Today

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Excited to share that our Biobank at Sapien Biosciences and the patient cancer-derived cell models developed by Saarum Sciences Private Limited were covered by India Today as part of their COVER STORY devoted to innovation in India in the fight against Cancer (26th June issue). Kudos to Damayanti Datta for putting together a detailed summary for lay […]

NIPER Hyderabad Pharma Industry Summit

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NIPER here held a Pharma Industry Summit on 24th March 2017, bringing together many govt, academic, industry and trade groups to speak about life sciences entrepreneurship in Hyd. It was a great initiative by Dr. Nanduri who himself brings many years of industrial experience to NIPER. I particularly enjoyed the opportunity to moderate a panel […]

Molecular Med Tricon 2017

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Dr. Jain attended the Molecular Med Tricon 2017 conference at San Francisco 19-23rd Februrary, 2017. It was a blend of academia and industry working in the field of personalized medicine using molecular approaches. Dr. Jain joined Sapien’s partner, Trans-Hit Bio of Canada, who had put up a booth at the conference and promoted our partnership […]

Epidemiological and survival analysis of triple-negative breast cancer cases in a retrospective multicenter study

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http://www.indianjcancer.com/article.asp?issn=0019-509X;year=2016;volume=53;issue=3;spage=353;epage=359;aulast=Sarin;type=0 This is a retrospective study with data collected from breast cancer cases from five major Apollo Hospitals across India, as part of a biobanking process. One aspect of our study focused specifically on data from triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cases. The aim of this study was to analyze epidemiology, treatment options, and survival of […]

Sapien collaborates with Dr. Anjana Rao of La Jolla Institute

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It is a pleasure to be working again with Dr. Anjana Rao, Jugnu’s postdoc advisor from Dana Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School days. Anjana is now the Chair of La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology with a joint appointment at UCSD.  Her lab’s work on Tet family of proteins and their regulation […]