Washington: US President Joe Biden’s top medical adviser Anthony Fauci said that India’s contribution to global scientific knowledge is well known to all and the knowledge is already helping in COVID-19 prevention and care.
Underlining the critical role of science in dealing with such a crisis at the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) webinar on health cooperation, Fauci said: the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has a long history of collaboration with its counterpart agencies in the Indian government.
“On the longstanding India-US vaccine action programme, we continue to work with India on research related to SARS-COV-2 vaccines. We are also eager to involve Indian investigators and insights in global clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of various COVID-19 therapeutics,” he further said.
“India’s contribution to the global scientific knowledge are well known to all, with strong government support and a vibrant biopharma private sector, this knowledge is already yielding solutions to COVID-19 prevention and care,” he remarked.