10 Jan Indian hopes to break malaria vaccine jinx
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He may have won the largest prize money that India can offer a scientist — Rs 50lakh, science award from Infosys Science Foundation — but for Chetan E Chitnis that is merely incidental in his journey towards the real prize.
If his bets do pay off, Chitnis could be the face behind a major breakthrough, of the sort that literally happens once in centuries — a vaccine for preventing malarial infection.