Union HRD Minister and Union Health Minister Launched Drug Discovery Hackathon 2020

Union HRD Minister and Union Health Minister Launched Drug Discovery Hackathon 2020:

    Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank the union Minister of Human Resources Development and Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Minister of Science and Technology launched the Drug Discovery Hackathon(DDH2020) through an Online Platform. It is a first of its kind national initiative supporting the Drug Discovery Process.

       The main aim is to identify drug candidates against SARS-COV-2 by in-silico drug discovery through the hackathon and follow up by chemical synthesis and biological testing utilizing computational methods such as machine learning, AI and big data.

    About Drug Discovery Hackathon 2020

          The DDH2020 is a joint initiative of the Ministry of HRD. All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and is supported by Council for Development of Advanced computinf (CDAC) , My Gov Schrodinger and ChemAxon.