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SUMMARY:The Business of Science : The First Decade of Strand
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Vijay Chandru\nStrand Life Sciences\n5th Floor\, Kirlo
 skar Business Park\nBellary Road\nHebbal\nBangalore 5600\n\nAbstract: \nAs
  a doctoral student in decision sciences\, I wandered into a classroom at 
 MIT where S.E. Luria was teaching an introductory biology class to enginee
 rs. I sat in the back and caught the last few minutes of the class. It was
  fascinating enough that I remembered the next time I was in the Harvard/M
 IT Coop and picked up a copy of his  36 Lectures in Biology  and browsed i
 n it from time to time. This was in 1970s and I didn't seriously consider 
 working in the life sciences till the mid-90s when students in biophysics 
 at IISc showed up in my computational geometry class wanting to learn abou
 t algorithms for Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay tessellations to be able to
  study the geometry of macromolecules.\n\nOne thing led to another and fou
 r of us professors from the CSA department at IISc set up Strand Genomics 
 in November 2000. It was heralded and jeered as a watershed event - the fi
 rst time that professors at a public university in India had promoted a co
 mpany with the university taking an equity stake.\n\nStrand has survived i
 ts first decade and is still far from being a blockbuster biotech company 
 but today has about 150 employees (70 computer scientists and 55 life scie
 ntists)\, is sustainable and has at least one global\, market leading prod
 uct in GeneSpring. I will describe the Strand journey so far while emphasi
 zing the joys of pursuing a truly inter disciplinary scientific agenda\, b
 uilding a collegial company\, and learning what it takes to create a scien
 ce driven innovation.\n
URL:https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/web/events/175
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110316
LOCATION:AG-66 (Lecture Theatre)
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