Biocon Foundation announces Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders Atlas project

To create a multidimensional data-centric platform for prevention, early detection, and treatment of oral cancers, Biocon Foundation has taken up a Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders Atlas Project, in coordination with four other healthcare institutes. The project was announced at Biocon Foundation’s 4th edition of Oral Cancer Task Force conference, held on the outskirts of Bengaluru on July 27. Titled ‘Oral Potentially Malignant Lesion Atlas Project: Validating the Efficacy of a Novel, Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Developing an Integrated Multidimensional, Prognostic Nomogram’, this five-year project will commence in the first week of August, said Praveen Birur, principal investigator of the project. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, founder and managing trustee of Biocon Foundation, said the foundation’s intervention in the area of cancer started with oral cancer screening using technology that enabled early detection and prevention.