Congratulations to Dr Chandrajit - Visit to Harvard Medical School

Dr. Chandrajit Lahiri of the Department of Biological Sciences visited Dana Farber Cancer Institute and VA Boston Medical Centre of Harvard Medical School, Boston, US for 3 weeks during February-March, 2019. His visit was supported by the Jeffrey Cheah Travel Grant on South-East Asia Studies at Harvard. The main aim of this travel was to seek collaboration to explore further his research in the field of network biology. He was welcomed by Dr. Nikhil C. Munshi and Dr. Masood Shammas, of DFCI, HMS, US to present his work on developing a side effect free method of identifying cancer drug targets and was appreciated for the effort put forward for the novel thought. Furthermore, he was keen to gain insight on the genomic instability leading to cancer multidrug resistance and for extrapolating his ideas from network biology to help develop precision cancer medicine with little or no side-effects. He believes that, essentially, this venture of him could serve the purpose of aligning with the 17 global goals for sustainable development of the United Nations, of which Sunway is also a part.