Dr Agarwal is the Dean of Biosciences and Health Research at the Trivedi School of Biosciences of Ashoka University. He is a trained pulmonologist whose research focusses on respiratory disease biology. He was at the helm of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology when the pandemic hit and has been a key expert in the government’s pandemic response. With IGIB being one of the ten hub laboratories under India’s Covid-19 genomic…