Ashok Soota’s SKAN Research Trust gives Rs 20-crore grant to IIT Roorkee

Chennai: Ashok Soota-promoted SKAN Research Trust has announced a grant of Rs 20 crore to Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, sponsoring a Chair Professorship, three Faculty Fellowships, creation of a lab and funding of joint research projects.

Launched in April this year, SKAN—or Scientific Knowledge for Ageing and Neurological ailments—is a public charitable trust set up for medical research. Soota, CEO of Happiest Minds Ltd. and an IT industry veteran, is the chairman and managing trustee of SKAN, and an alumnus of IIT Roorkee.