Background
Vinod was born in, Tanzania in 1981.
Vinod was born in, Tanzania in 1981.
He studied for pre-degree course in Saint Joseph"s College, Devagiri and completed his undergraduate studies in medicine and surgery from Calicut Medical College with Gold Medals in Biochemistry and Physiology.
He was also instrumental in the sequencing of The first Sri Lankan Genome, analysis of the first Malaysian Genome and sequencing and analysis of the Wild-type strain of Zebrafish. He was conferred the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Young Scientist Award for biological sciences for developing computational tools to analyse genomic data, by the Prime Minister of India in September 2012. He did his schooling in Silver Hills Public School, Kozhikode, India.
He worked as a consultant for information technology at the Pain and Palliative Care society in Kozhikode.
Later, he joined the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, where he started his career as a researcher Doctor Scaria started his research career at Calicut Medical College in the area of medical ethics and health information on Internet.
After joining the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in 2005, he switched to computational biology and genome informatics. His notable researches include the identification of human micro-Ribonucleic acid which can target Human Immunodeficiency Virus virus.
He also pioneered the use of social web for genome annotation, through mapping of Tuberculosis genome.
He and colleagues also discovered and designed enzyme silencers for messenger of Ribonucleic Acid, dubbed antagomiRzymes.His group also pioneered the use of social web, cloud computing and students for solving complex drug discovery problems for Neglected Diseases. Doctor Scaria has also been involved in popularising personal genomics through meragenome.com and OpenPGx. Vinod Scaria has been pioneering the application of genomics to diagnose and solve rare genetic diseases in India, including discovering novel variants.
He, with his colleague Sridhar Sivasubbu co-founded a national network (GUaRDIAN) of clinicians and researchers working on rare disease genomics.
He also co-authored a handbook on exome sequencing and analysis for clinicians. He has published numerous papers in international journals.
He is also the member of senate of the Academy of Scientific and Innovative (AcSIR). He is also the Editorial Board member of many reputed International Journals including PLOS ONE, PeerJ and Journal of Translational Medicine.