Prof. Deepak Kumaran Nair, Centre for Neuroscience, IISc, is an expert who has formerly worked upon Alzheimer’s Disease. Some of the students in his lab continue to work on projects related to AD. Upon hearing our idea and the rough plan of action, he provided us with positive feedback, and guidance on how we should progress. Prof. Nair even volunteered, with utmost excitement, to provide us with a mouse to carry out experiments on! It was unfortunate that we could not use it due to iGEM guidelines.
It was much to our honour that, over the course of time, Prof. Deepak Nair agreed to become the principal investigator for our project.