India, UK-based firm wins ‘Star Trek’ creator’s award

London, August 21

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An India and UK headquartered genomics biotech company is among four worldwide projects awarded the $1-million 2020 Roddenberry Prize designed to advance the vision of ‘Star Trek’ creator Gene Roddenberry to better humanity.

Launched this year in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, the prize pivoted to engage organisations who demonstrated their agility and innovation on the frontlines of Covid-19.

Global Gene Corp was recognised in the science category for democratising healthcare through genomics by mapping and organising the world’s genomic diversity.

In the process, the company based out of Mumbai and Cambridge was lauded for helping the world overcome the bias that 80 per cent of all existing genomic data come from people of European ancestry. — PTI