At present SKAN RT has 2400 sq ft of office space in the Happiest Health premises located within St John’s Research Institute, Koramangala, Bengaluru with a seating capacity for 25-30 persons. It also has set up a laboratory in the same premises of approximately 2000 Sq ft which is well equipped to carry out microbial culture work (including anaerobes) and molecular biology work with sequencing facilities. The presently available equipment are listed below. Besides these orders for specialized instruments such as Next Generation Sequencing (NextSeq 2000), Anaerobic workstation costing around INR 5 crores has been placed and the equipment is expected shortly.

Dr Ritika Sharma, Researcher, setting up Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

The intention of the IT team is to provide a world-class IT infrastructure, that includes platforms, people, and processes apart from latest technology. Managing the IT infrastructure to ensure that it is available 24X7 and by aligning to the organizational needs.

Today, we have IT workloads that can handle the platform that captures study related data, we are in the process of building data platforms to process and analyze data. We are working on low code application platforms & custom applications to create Apps that can be subsequently used to capture study related data, we are also looking at platforms for integrating data from multiple sources, analytical platforms to generate regular and custom reports, we are also looking at AI platforms such as ChatGPT, OpenAI etc., to analyze or parse data and help generate relevant & better insights.

Dr Dinakaran V, Research Scientist, isolating human fecal DNA