Profile: Anil Koul’s Journey From ‘Jumping Genes’ To Sirturo And AI-Led Drug Discovery

Professor Anil Koul shares vignettes of his life and career trajectory, a captivating mix of hope, science and destiny that took him to the lab of eminent cancer biologist Alex Ullrich at the Max Planck Institute and also saw him contribute to the development of breakthrough TB drug bedaquiline. He also talks about Medicine 3.0 and the intersection of science and spirituality.

Anil Koul
Anil Koul, professor of translational discovery at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Anil Koul’s life and career journey, from Srinagar in India where he was born, all the way to the lab of renowned cancer biologist Alex Ullrich at the Max Planck Institute in Germany and then on to Johnson & Johnson and India’s Council of Scientific And Industrial Research (CSIR), where he worked with some of the sharpest scientific minds, is one of hard work, grit and destiny.

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