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Cohort Connect 2025
November 17 , 2025
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- India launched the Phenome National Conclave on Longitudinal Cohort Studies, called Cohort Connect 2025.
- It was inaugurated at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research–Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (CSIR–IMMT) in Bhubaneswar.
- The initiative aims to become India’s largest evidence-based study examining genetic, lifestyle, and environmental drivers of major diseases.
- The launch highlighted the rising national burden of metabolic disorders such as diabetes and their related complications.
- India has already sequenced nearly 10,000 human genomes through CSIR and the Department of Biotechnology, with work progressing toward one million genome sequences.
- The programme will support long-term cohort studies to generate India-specific data for preventive and precision-medicine approaches.
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