Case Study
Transforming Precision Medicine in India
Transforming Precision Medicine in India with Golden Helix Software Established in 2004 and headquartered in Chennai, India, with regional centers across the country, LifeCell runs India’s largest stem cell bank and has also diversified into diagnostics and tissue therapeutics. They employ roughly 2,000 people, providing genetic services to customers in the mother and baby space. Phani Nagaraja Setty is working as scientist at LifeCell. Setty obtained his Master’s degree in biochemistry and then received his Ph.D. in genomics with a concentration in Type 2 diabetes. For the last three and a half years, he has managed the lab operations for NGS tests in Lifecell diagnostics. While working on NGS based clinical exome panels, he realized the need for an efficient genotype-phenotype corr