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Mr.S.(Sam)Santhosh: Founder and Chairman, MedGenome Inc

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About Me

Sam Santhosh is the Founder & Chairman of MedGenome Inc, a Genetic Diagnostic and Research company with labs in San Francisco, USA and Bangalore, India. Sam is also the Promoter & CEO of SciGenom Inc. - a genomics R & D organization that conducts research work aimed at understanding the role of DNA sequence variation in all living things..

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In the News

  • GENOMEWEB: MedGenome Completes $40M Series C Funding With HFDC Investment, 05-March-2018
  • BW Business World: THE DISRUPTORS, 12-Oct-2017
  • The Economic Times: Never settle for mediocrity; it is worse than failure: Sam Santhosh, Founder, Medgenome, 07-Sept-2017
  • Venturebeat: Sequoia co-leads $30 million investment in MedGenome's research and diagnostics testing, 28-Aug-2017
  • Hindustan Times: Indo-Canadian venture radicalises drug research, 13-Aug-2017
  • ETHealthWorld: TRAC, Canada and MedGenome announce a Cancer Immunotherapy solution, 20-July-2017
  • The Times of India: MedGenome decodes genetic info to better diagnose diseases, 24-May-2017
  • Business India: Offering a boon, 30-April-2017
  • ET Healthworld: MedGenome launches Carrier Screening test, 17-March-2017
  • Your Story: From Software to Genomes, 15-March-2017
  • DNA: MedGenome launches Oncotrack; liquid biopsy test for cancer, 7-March-2017
  • Dhanam - സാം സന്തോഷിൽ നിന്ന് ബിസിനസ് കേരളത്തിന് എന്ത് പഠിക്കാം?, 31-December-2016
  • Business India, 24-November-2016
  • Entrepreneur Sam Santhosh is leading genetic research with his laboratories across the country, 13-October-2016
  • MedGenome buys Illumina’s Hiseq X Ten machine for genome sequencing project, 07-October-2016
  • Medgenome in pact to sequence genome of 1 lakh people in Asia, 03-October-2016
  • DE-RISKING A START-UP:FROM THE INDUSTRY’S ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPTAINS, July-2016
  • MedGenome Acquires Lifecode Health Assets and CLIA Certified Lab in Bay Area, 24-February-2016
  • Medgenome awarded with the bio-excellence award for the year 2016 by government of Karnataka, 17-February-2016
  • We are doing research with hospitals for diseases unique to India: Sam Santosh, 28-July-2015
  • Interview with ET HealthWorld, 23-July-2015
  • Sequoia Capital invest $20M in MedGenome, 23-July-2015
  • Hot Biotech Start-ups: A year later, 06-March-2015
  • Golden Helix collaborates with India’s MedGenome, 09-June-2015
  • MedGenome launches Non-Invasive Pre-Natal Test in India, 07-January-2015
  • ‘Genome man’ of India | Exclusive interview with Future Medicine, 10-March-April-2013
  • Sam Santhosh joins Accel Frontline Ltd as an Independent Director, May 04, 2012
  • Genomics, the new beckoning for Calsoft founder SciGenom, Sam Santhosh's next venture, specialises in DNA sequencing, February 15, 2012
  • Getting children to read and love books! - DCBooks, News 'n' More, January 15, 2011
  • In the Business of Science - The Hindu, Metro Plus, August 7, 2010
  • MBA Grand Challenge 2009 Title goes to IIM, Kozhikode - The New Indian Express, February 1, 2010
  • MBA Grand Challenge semi final on Kairali TV - The New Indian Express, December 28, 2009
  • Calsoft for strategic play post IDC divestment - economictimes.indiatimes.com, December 04, 2009
  • Reality Show for creating awareness on book reading - Mathrubhumi, December 06, 2009
  • Reality show on books - The Hindu, November 26, 2009
  • MBAs to fight it out at reality show - The Hindu, November 04, 2009
  • Kairali TV will launch its first reality show - MBA Grand Challenge 2009 - on October 24 - Indian Express, October 19, 2009
  • Moving up—slow and steady - Sam's article in Express Computer, May 15, 2009
  • Sam interview in Dataquest, March 20, 2009
  • Sam's interview in IT Magazine , March 5, 2009
  • Sam's interview on the Rediff Business site , February 27, 2009
  • Business Line - Coverage on Sam's talk @ IIT, January 13, 2009
  • We see WiMax as a major growth area, November 27, 2008
  • A Global Success Story, November 12, 2008
  • Recession will not have severe impact, November 03, 2008
  • Sam addresses students at VIT, October 29, 2008
  • Nasscom Face to Face, October 20, 2008
  • Ixia partners with Calsoft, October 14, 2008
  • The Times Of India , September 2, 2008
  • Going the global way
  • Don't brood over problems, February 7, 2008
  • Express Computers
  • Zee Business - Interview
  • D Murali's Blog

Publications

  • Extended genotypic evaluation and comparison of twenty-two cases of lethal EEHV1 hemorrhagic disease in wild and captive Asian elephants in India, 22-August-2018
  • Complete mitogenome reveals genetic divergence and phylogenetic relationships among Indian cattle (Bos indicus) breeds, 23-Jun-2018
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Wild Asian Elephants, Southern India, February-2017
  • OncoMD: A powerful genomics data analysis and interpretation platform for cancer discovery research, July-2016
  • A novel method for immobilization of proteins via entrapment of magnetic nanoparticles through epoxy cross-linking, 11-December-2016
  • Evolution of targeted therapies in cancer: opportunities and challenges in the clinic, 01-January-2015
  • Prevalence of genetic variants associated with cardiovascular disease risk and drug response in the Southern Indian population of Kerala, 01-June-2014
  • Sequencing and analysis of a South Asian-Indian personal genome, 31-August-2012

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  • Skeleton Keys - Brian Switek
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  • A man called Ove - Fredrik Backman
  • The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis
  • The Reckoning - John Grisham
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  • Aurangazeb - Audrey Truschke
  • The Disordered Mind - Eric Kandel
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  • Squirm - Carl Hiaasen
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  • Scat - Carl Hiaasen
  • The Consciousness Instinct - Michael Gazzaniga
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  • God on Vengeance - Giles Kristian
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  • Who we are, How we got here - David Reich
  • Native Tongue - Carl Hiaasen
  • Winter's Fire - Giles Kristian
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  • Coromandel: A personal history of South India - Charles Allen
  • Modern Lovers - Emma Straub
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  • The Past as the Present - Romila Thapar
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  • Redeployment - Phil Klay
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  • The Empty Throne - Bernard Cornwell
  • Adultery - Paulo Coelho
  • House of Wisdom - Jim Al-Khalili
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  • Pagan Lord - Bernard Cornwell
  • Spillover - David Quammen
  • Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
  • The Patient will see you now - Eric Topol
  • Desert God - Wilbur Smith
  • The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South India - Michael D Petraglia
  • Parasite Rex - Carl Zimmer
  • Tongwan City - Gao Jianqun
  • All the Light that We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
  • How we learn - Benedict Carey
  • The Planet of Viruses - Carl Zimmerman
  • The Pregnant King - Devdutt Patnaik
  • The Compatibility Gene - Daniel Davis
  • Rookie Smarts - Liz Wiseman
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  • Ajaya - Anand Neelakantan
  • Married but Available - Abhijit Bhaduri
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  • The Age of Wrath - Abraham Eraly
  • Yuganta - Iravati Karve
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  • Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen
  • The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist - Orhan Parmuk
  • Life out of Sequence - Hallam Stevens
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  • A Troublesome Inheritance -Nicholas Wade
  • The Land of the Seven Rivers - Sanjeev Sanyal
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  • The fault in our stars - John Green
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  • Denial - Ajit Varki
  • Neptune - Craig Symonds
  • Cell - Robin Cook
  • How About Never - Bob Mankoff
  • Gem in the Lotus - Abraham Eraly
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  • Neanderthal Man - Svante Paabo
  • Comets! - David Eicher
  • Our Mathematical Universe - Max Tegmark
  • An Officer and a Spy - Robert Harris
  • The Wolf at Wall Street - Jordan Belfort
  • The Future of the Mind - Michio Kaku
  • Life at the Speed of Light - Craig Venter
  • Sycamore Row - John Grisham
  • Paleofanatasy -Marlene Zuk
  • The Quest - Nelson DeMille
  • Tears of the Cheetah - Stephen O'brien
  • Tomorrow's World - Clint Laurent
  • Balance - Glen Hubbard
  • Nano - Robin Cook
  • Bankerupt - Ravi Subramanian
  • The Cuckoo's Calling - J.K.Rowling
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  • The Bankster - Ravi Subramaniam
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  • The Risk of Infidelity Index- Christopher Moore
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  • Odd Couples - Daphne Fairbairn
  • The Chemistry between us - Larry Young
  • Anatomies - Hugh Williams
  • The Odyssey - Home, Fagles
  • The Activist - John Grisham
  • Red Market - Scott Carney
  • How to create a mind - Ray Kurzweil
  • Ginkgo: The tree that time forgot - Peter Crane
  • Bend, not break - Ping Fu
  • The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
  • Pandora's Lunchbox - Melanie Warner
  • Argo - Antonio Mendez
  • Team of Rivals - Doris Goodwin
  • The Universe Within - Neil Shubin
  • Kerala History and its Makers - A.Sreedhara Menon
  • The Last Crusade - Nigel Cliff
  • Nudge - Richar Thaler
  • The Spark of Life - Ashcroft Frances
  • Rendezvous - Nelson DeMille
  • Antifragile - Nicholas Taleb
  • The Racketeer - John Grisham
  • The Panther - Nelson DeMile
  • 1356 - Bernard Cornwell
  • The illicit happiness of other people- Manu Joseph
  • Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
  • The Swerve - Stephen Greenblatt
  • Pax Indica - Shashi Tharoor
  • The Violinist's thumb - Sam Kean
  • Death Benefits - Nelson DeMille
  • What a Plant knows - Daniel Chamovitz
  • The Big Short - Michael Lewis
  • Keep the Change - Nirupama Subramanian
  • Masters of the Planet - Ian Tattersall
  • Breasts - Florence Williams
  • Ruler of the World - Alex Rutherford
  • Why Nations Fail - Daron Acemoglu
  • The Tainted Throne - Alex Rutherford
  • The Swinger - Michael Bamberger
  • DNA USA - Bryan Sykes
  • The Book Case - Nelson DeMille
  • The Accused - John Grisham
  • Subliminal - Leonard Mlodinow
  • Fifty Shades of Grey - E.L.James
  • The Age of insight - Eric Kandel
  • Social Conquest of Earth - E.O.Wilson
  • Calico Joe - John Grisham
  • Chomp - Carl Hiaasen
  • Asoka - Charles Allen
  • Homo Evolutis - Steve Gullans
  • A Universe from Nothing - Lawrence Krauss
  • Out of our Minds - Ken Robinson
  • Abundance - Peter Diamandis
  • The End of Illness - David Agus
  • In the Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson
  • Death Benefit - Robin Cook
  • The Creative Destruction of Medicine - Eric Topol
  • Octopus - Jennifer Mather
  • Conqueror - Conn Iggulden
  • Death of Kings - Bernard Cornwell
  • The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
  • Eagle - Jack Hight
  • Getting Smart - Tom Vander Ark
  • Fear Index - Robert Harris
  • The incredible banker - Ravi Subramaniam
  • The God Species - Mark Lynas
  • The Litigators - John Grisham
  • Boomerang - Michael Lewis
  • Proust and the Squid - Maryanne Wolfe
  • Revolution 2020 - Chetan Bhagat
  • War of the World views: Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow
  • That used to be us - Thomas Freidman
  • The Opium War - Julia Lovell
  • The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
  • The new players in Life Sciences Innovation - Tomascz M
  • Endgame - John Mauldin
  • Inside Jokes:Using humor to reverse-engineer the mind - M.Hurley
  • The last song of Savio de Souza - Binoo John
  • Saving Sea Turtles - James Spotilla
  • Last man in Tower - Aravind Adiga
  • Star Island - Carl Hiasen
  • Free Radicals - Michael Brooks
  • Cause and Effect: Understanding Chernobyl - Marianne B
  • Adapt:Why success always starts with failure - Tim Hartford
  • EpiGenetics - Richard Francis
  • Stalingrad - Antony Beevor
  • The Mystery of Metamorphosis- Frank Ryan
  • Wetware:A computer in every living cell - Dennis Bray
  • Theodore Boone:The Abduction - John Grisham
  • Food Rules - Michael Pollan
  • Great Soul - Joseph Lelyveld
  • Incognito: The secret lives of the Brain - David Eagleman
  • Science is Culture - Adam Bly and Julian Dufort
  • The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
  • Chanakya's Chant - Ashwin Sanghi
  • Physics of the Future - Michio Kaku
  • Some Girls: My life in a Harem - Jillian Lauren
  • Here on Earth - Tim Flannery
  • A Planet of Viruses - Carl Zimmer
  • Those in Peril - Wilbur Smith
  • Panic Virus - Seth Mnookin
  • Anthill - E.O.Wilson
  • Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer
  • The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
  • The Drunkard's Walk - Leonard Mlodinow
  • The Indian Clerk: A Novel - David Leavitt
  • Predictable Magic - Deepa Prahalad & Ravi Sawhney
  • Your Brain and Business - Srinivasan Pillay
  • Here is looking at Euclid - Alex Bellos
  • Death by Prescription - Ray D Strand
  • On the Spartacus Road - Peter Stothard
  • Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh
  • Euclid's Window - Leonard Mlodinow
  • The Music of the Primes - Marcus Du Satoy
  • Nonsense on Stilts - Massimo Pigliucci
  • The Upside of Irrationality - Dan Ariely
  • Serious Men - Manu Joseph
  • Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
  • Mind's Eye - Oliver Sacks
  • The Tell-Tale Brain - VS Ramachandran
  • The Emissary - Aniruddha Bahal
  • Almost Single - Advaita Kala
  • Raiders from the North - Alex Rutherford
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
  • The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - Allison Barlett
  • The Emperor of all Maladies - Siddartha Mukherjee
  • The Fort - Bernard Cornwell
  • The 10,000 year Explosion - Gregory Cochran
  • Designer Genes - Steven Potter
  • Why Sex is Fun? - Jared Diamond
  • Empire of Silver - Conn Igguulden
  • The Smart Swarm - Peter Miller
  • The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking
  • The Confession - John Grisham
  • The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean
  • Just Six Numbers: Deep forces that shape the Universe - Martin Rees
  • To test or not to test:A guide to genetic screening - Doris Zallen
  • The $1000 Genome - Kevin Davies
  • Adam's Curse - Bryan Sykes
  • Fall of Giants - Ken Follet
  • Our Final Hour - Martin Rees
  • The Lazarus Project - Aleksander Hemon
  • The Seven Daughters of Eve - Brian Sykes
  • Nanotechnology Demystified - Linda Williams
  • Flooded Earth - Peter Ward
  • 80 Questions to understand India - Murad Ali Baig
  • Piece of Cake - Swati Kaushal
  • Before the Dawn - Nicholas Wade
  • Deep Ancestry - Spencer Wells
  • Intervention - Robin Cook
  • Out of thin air - Peter Ward
  • Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley
  • Delhi Noir - Hirsh Sawhney
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson
  • Lion - Nelson DeMille
  • Solar - Ian Mcewan
  • Theodore Boone - John Grisham
  • Mapping the Deep - Robert Kunzig
  • Life Ascending - Nick Lane
  • The Girl who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
  • Quantum Enigma: Physics enters consciousness -Bruce Rosenblum
  • Poseidon's Steed - Helen Scales
  • Inside the Human Genome - John C Avise
  • My friend Sancho - Amit Varma
  • Nathaniel's Nutmeg - Giles Milton
  • The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher
  • Japanese Wife - Kunal Basu
  • Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson
  • No one would listen - Harry Markopolos
  • The Last Dickens - Mathew Pearl
  • Radical Evolution - Joel Garreau
  • Whole Earth Discipline - Stewart Brand
  • How to build a Dinosaur - Jack Horner
  • Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
  • Decision Tree - Thomas Goetz
  • Conspirata - Robert Harris
  • Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn
  • Language of Life - Francis Collins
  • Climbing Mount Improbable - Richard Dawkins
  • Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Arrack in the afternoon - George Menachery
  • Great Santini - Pat Conroy
  • Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Devil in Pinstripes - Ravi Subramaniam
  • The Invention of Air - Steven Johnson
  • Open - Andre Agassi
  • Ford County - John Grisham
  • The Double Life of Ramalinga Raju - Kingshuk Nag
  • Emperors of the Peacock Throne - Abraham Eraly
  • The Strangest Man - Graham Farmelo
  • Loot - Sharon Waxman
  • Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton
  • The Palace of Illusions - Chitra Divakurni
  • Too Big to Fail - Andrew Sorkin
  • The Burning Land - Bernard Cornwell
  • 2 states - Chetan Bhagat
  • Physics for future presidents - Richard Muller
  • SuperFreakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
  • Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
  • Scientific Edge - Jayant V Narlikar


  • The Miniaturist - Kunal Basu


  • Nation - Terry Pratchett


  • Greatest show on Earth - Richard Dawkins


  • Amen: Autobiography of a nun - Sister Jesme


  • A Good Indian Wife - Anne Cherian
  • Case for God - Karen Armstrong
  • Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
  • Winner stands alone - Paulo Coelho
  • The Elephant, the Tiger & the Cell phone - Shashi Tharoor
  • A case of exploding mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
  • Business stripped bare - Richard Branson
  • Shantaram - Gregory Roberts
  • Bankruptcy to Billions - How the Indian Railways transformed
  • Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Rough & Tumble - Mark Bavaro
  • Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon
  • A wasted death - Rajmohan Pillai
  • The Hindus - Wendy Doniger
  • Between the Assassinations - Aravind Adiga
  • Tree of Smoke - Dennis Johnson
  • Right of Thirst - Frank Huyler
  • Assegai - Wilbur Smith
  • The Ten most beautiful experiments - George Johnson
  • Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
  • Decoding the Heavens - Jo Marchant
  • Brida - Paulo Coelho
  • Big Switch: Rewiring the world - Nicholas Carr
  • Confessions of an Alien Hunter - Seth Shosthak
  • Sons of Babur - Salman Khurshid
  • Human - Michael Gazzaniga
  • Gandhi & Churchill - Arthur Herman
  • The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
  • The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
  • Paradise - Khushwant Singh
  • Indian Renaissance - Sanjay Sanwal
  • White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
  • When Gaints Fall - Michael Panzner
  • Return of Depression Economics - P Krugman
  • Age of Siva - Manil Suril
  • The Serpent's Tale - Ariana Franklin
  • The Associate - John Grisham
  • Agincourt - Bernard Cornwell
  • The Unthinkable - Amanda Ripley
  • Outliers - Malcom Gladwell
  • The Story of Writing - Andrew Robinson
  • Testimony - Anita Shreve
  • GateHouse - Nelson DeMille
  • The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
  • Foreign Body - Robin Cook
  • Hot Flat and Crowded
  • The Post-American World
  • Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 billion year history of the Human Body
  • Genghis: Lords of the Bow
  • Omnivore's Dilemma
  • Physics of the Impossible.
  • Blood Matters.
  • Rani (of Jhansi).
  • Blink.
  • God Delusion.


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