US is eager to rope in Indian investigators and experts to conduct clinical trials on the safety and efficacy of Covid-19 therapeutics, said top US health advisor Dr Anthony Fauci said on Thursday.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has a long history of collaboration with its counterpart agencies in India, Dr Fauci said during a conversation organised by the US-India Strategic and Partnership Forum. The partnerships between the NIH and India's Department of Biotechnology as well as what the Indian Council of Medical Research have helped produce important scientific and public health discoveries in the past
Fauci said under the long-standing vaccine action programme, US will continue to work with India on research related to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.