Anil Srivastava

As President of Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL) Anil Srivastava leads its work on application of digital twins technology across all sectors, including life sciences, as part of the collaboration with the Digital Twin Consortium; strategic partnership with Apollo Research Academy; Virtual Organization as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) research; and Global Pediatric Brain Cancer Network (GPBCN) and its pilot program with Duke University and Bayer in Tanzania.

He has been associated with the Virtual Human Global Alliance from the very beginning, focusing on an open-source SDK for digital twins in biomedical research and treatment. In his earlier career, he worked with the Apple Advanced Technology Group on the open educational resources project, co-funded by the National Science Foundation, which led to the development of MIT OpenCourseware and MERLOT, among others. He was an advisor to India's National Knowledge Commission, a senior advisor for life sciences to Internet2: University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, and the World Bank. He was visiting faculty at Tata Memorial Centre; consultant to All India Institute for Medical Sciences for planning and implementation of their comprehensive cancer center in Jhajjar, Haryana; besides handling several consulting assignments with US National Cancer Institute, including caBIG (Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid), Radiation Research Program and India-United States research collaboration on hadron therapy.

OHSL, as a practitioner of international team science, finds and brings together promising biomedical researchers from across the world to create consortia to formulate research projects in their areas of interest and excellence, and then works with them to find funding and take forward their research collaboration. excellence, and then works with them to find funding and take forward their research collaboration.