Tata Trust, a unit associated with the social work of Mumbai Tata Group, is going to launch a big project from the country to eliminate malaria. Under this, new gene editing technology will be used, which will change the DNA of mosquitoes in the country and prevent it from spreading the malaria disease. Tata Trust will invest $ 700 million (about Rs 458 crore) in the next five years to set up the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (Institute) in the Tata Institute for Genetics and Society and Bangalore in collaboration with the University of California in the US.

Tata Trust Chairman Ratan Tata, Managing Trustee R. Venkataramanan and Innovation Head Manoj Kumar will be the trustees of the new institute. The institute in the US has already begun and in India, it will start at the beginning of next year. About this, Manoj Kumar, the innovation head of Tata Trust, said, "There are increasing mosquito-borne diseases in India. Earlier it was the only malaria, but now there is dengue, chickengunia and zica virus. These diseases are deadly and it is more difficult to deal with them.

According to the World Malaria Report, India's share of malaria cases is 6% in the world. About 10.6 lakh cases of malaria were reported in the country in 2016. The Health Ministry has set a target to make the country malaria-free by 2030. In the early research of the University of California, it has been found that the large number of Mosquito Enhphilis Stefanis can be changed in India by changing the genetics of the parasite called Plasmodium falciparum which spreads mosquito diseases.

Tata Trusts will soon start recruiting scientists to work on this project. It can appoint 40-50 scientists in two-three years. Kumar of Tata Trust said, "The biggest challenge is to get the right Human Resource-Scientist. Genetic Scientist is selected in India and is being sent to the US for training."

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