Anurag Agrawal

Anurag Agrawal is Dean Biosciences and Health Research at Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University, and a former director of the CSIR Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (IGIB). He graduated in medicine from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1994, followed by specialization in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, (2003) and a PhD in physiology. After serving as a faculty member at Baylor, he joined IGIB in 2007. His research in respiratory health has covered a full spectrum from molecular pathobiology to informatics and epidemiology, leading to his being awarded the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar award for Medical Sciences and the Wellcome Trust India Alliance senior fellowship in 2014, followed by the National Bioscience Award in 2015. His additional interests are in the use of information technology in health, specifically the interface between digital medicine, machine learning, and public health.