

Shaping the future of software driven business
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Focus Areas Journal
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Maniyadath B, Chattopadhyay T, Verma S, Kumari S, Kulkarni P, Banerjee K,
Lazarus A, Kokane SS, Shetty T, Anamika K, Kolthur-Seetharam U (2019). Loss
of Hepatic Oscillatory Fed microRNAs Abrogates Refed Transition and Causes
Liver Dysfunctions.
Life Sciences Cell Reports
2.
Kumar P, Panigrahi P, Johnson J, Weber WJ, Mehta S, Sajulga R, Easterly C,
Crooker BA, Heydarian M, Anamika K, Griffin TJ, Jagtap PD (2019). QuanTP: A
Software Resource for Quantitative Proteo-Transcriptomic Comparative Data
Analysis and Informatics.
Life Sciences J Proteome Res.
Conferences
• Co-organizer for a workshop with PCCM and IISER Pune on “Multi-Omics Studies in Cancer Learnings from The Cancer
Genome Atlas (TCGA)” in September 2019
• Attended and presented “Multi-omics Data Integration Reveals miRNA-mediated Gene Regulation in Triple-Negative Breast
Cancer” at Cell Symposium:TCGA Legacy, Washington DC, Sep 27-29, 2018
Smart India Hackathon
Your Company continued to play an active leadership role in organizing the third edition of Smart India Hackathon. This year’s
event was larger and in addition to the 18 Government ministries, problems were shared by 96 industry collaborators. This
year, more than 32,000 teams submitted ideas for the software edition and more than 20,000 teams submitted ideas for the
hardware edition.
A 36-hour hackathon for the software edition was held on March 2 and 3, 2019 with more than 8,000 students participating in
48 centers across India. The software edition was a grand success and the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi inspired
participants during a live interaction via video conferencing. The hardware edition will be held in July 2019.
Project Manav
Your Company was instrumental for setting up the Manav project which was recently funded for three years by the Department
of Biotechnology (DBT) and co-funded by your Company. The project is in partnership with the two leading biological science
institutes in Pune – National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) and Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER).
The Manav project aims to create a structured, comprehensive and integrated knowledge base of the human body by collecting
in one place macro-level and micro-level information about the human body from scientific literature and public databases.
The project will work with thousands of students in colleges and young professionals and provide a common gamified platform
to encourage participants to read, review, collaborate and annotate published scientific articles. The students contributing to
this initiative will get exposure to diverse research articles in biological and medical sciences. Your Company will be providing
its expertise in life sciences, big data management, platform development for capturing data, data analytics and visualization
for successful execution of Manav.
Pradeep Bhargava, Independent Director was elected as the President of MCCIA
Mr. Pradeep Bhargava who is an Independent Director of your Company was elected as the President of the Mahratta Chamber
of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA) for a two-year term from October 2018 to September 2020. MCCIA is the local
chamber of commerce in the Pune region. Various reputed companies are members of the chamber and it is a matter of pride
that Mr. Bhargava who is representing your Company at the Chamber is the elected President of this prestigious organization.
ACM India Corporate Sponsorship
Your Company has signed up as the platinum sponsor for ACM India. This sponsorship will help your Company to get visibility
and branding in the technology community which is essential for attracting the best of talent to your Company.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is an international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and
is the world’s largest scientific and educational computing society. Your Company has been a supporter of the ACM and has
helped establish ACM in India. The ACM India headquarters works out of the offices of your Company. Dr. Hemant Pande who
is a former employee of your Company joined the ACM as the Executive Director and has set up this Corporate Sponsorship
program.