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municipal/administrative agencies, research institutes   CARNEGIE INDIA
                               and universities at both the national and international
                               levels, industries and start-ups, hospitals, NGOs and   Founded in 2016, Carnegie India, based in New Delhi,  is
                               patient support groups across the city and beyond. TIGS   part of a robust global network that includes over 150
                               has been a key partner in multiple grants, including from   scholars in Asia, Beirut, Brussels, and Washington. Led by
                               the Rockefeller Foundation supporting multi-centre      Indian experts with decades of international and domestic
                               programme for setting up pathogen monitoring systems    policy  experience,  Carnegie  India  engages   with
                               (Alliance for Pathogen Surveillance Innovations-India),   governments,  policymakers,  academics,  students,
                               as well as competitive research grants from government   industries, practitioners, and civil  society to provide
                               agencies such as the ICMR, SERB-DST, DBT, etc. for      independent, insightful, and fresh analyses of India’s
                               translational science in the areas of diagnostics and   pressing challenges and the rising role of India in the
                               therapeutics in healthcare.                             world, in ways that are at once topical and panoptic.

                                                                                       The Trusts have been supporting Carnegie India through
                             • Outreach events and societal engagements: About 10
                                                                                       an institutional grant to grow its research programme and
                               webinars and public lectures were hosted by TIGS along
                                                                                       to conduct national summits and events, in order to inform
                               with the initiation of a new TIGS podcast channel for
                                                                                       public policy.
                               science communication, leading to an engagement with
                               over 14,000 people on various topics such as wastewater
                               surveillance, air surveillance of COVID-19, antimicrobial   KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
                               resistance (AMR) and infectious disease monitoring, rare
                               genetic disorders screening and diagnostics, mRNA       Research:
                               therapeutics, pest management and crop improvement
                               technologies. Along with the Organization for Rare      •  India–U.S.  Initiative  on  Critical  and  Emerging
                               Diseases, India (ORDI), TIGS also organised  the  first    Technologies  (iCET):  The  iCET focuses  on  fostering
                               National Rare Diseases Research Summit (REDRESS –         deeper technology ties between India and the United
                               2022) in November 2022, which served as an indigenous     States and aims to bring together stakeholders from
                               and recurrent platform to bring together all rare disease   di erent domains to discuss areas of technology
                               researchers  and stakeholders  working for  the Indian    cooperation. Carnegie India has been working  on
                               Rare Disease population, with an aim of indigenization    building the agenda for the iCET. In addition to research
                               and acceleration of diagnostics, therapeutics, and        and publications, Carnegie has conducted two
                               management,   through   potential  cross-disciplinary     high-level private discussions - in New Delhi and
                               collaborations.                                           Washington D.C. - with key stakeholders from

                                                                                         government, industry, academia, and think tanks.

                                                                                       •  Semiconductors:  Carnegie   India  continues   to
                                                                                         explore the area of semiconductor supply chains, which
                                                                                         is  becoming   increasingly  diversified.  Regarding
                                                                                         semiconductors, the focus at Carnegie India is two-fold:
                                                                                         (a) discussion of how recent U.S. export control
                                                                                         measures  have  unleashed  second-order  e ects  that
                                                                                         have created uncertainty for semiconductor companies



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