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BENGALURU, India, April 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashok Soota today announced the creation of SKAN, probably India's first not-for-profit entity in the private sector, exclusively for medical research.
The research for the projects will be done through reputed partners, and directly in-house. The strategic partner for Neurological research is the Centre for Brain Research (CBR) at Indian Institute Science, Bangalore (IISc). CBR is putting together a consortium to handle the first project on Parkinson's disease. The strategic partner for Ageing is the upcoming St. John's Geriatric Centre (SJGC), to be located on the St John's Hospital campus. Soota has agreed to fund the setting up of the Centre for Research in Ageing and Geriatrics (CRAG) at the SJGC and to support joint projects. In Ageing, the approach will be to go wide into relatively under-researched areas and will include the establishment of a large community-based research cohort. For Neurological research, the plan will be to go deep into select areas like Parkinson's disease, Bipolar disorders, Strokes and other Cerebrovascular disorders.