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An Indian Scientist’s Journey India’s daily headlines often miss a silent emergency: venomous snakebites claim over 58,000 lives here every year, with countless more left permanently disabled. My work sits at the crossroads of ecology, evolution, and molecular genetics, trying to understand venom and transform treatment. I’m an evolutionary biologist and Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where I founded the Evolutionary Venomics Lab—Ind