Archive · 3 Jun 2025
IIT-BHU Scientists Develops Framework to Check Virus Drug Resistance
Scientists at IIT-BHU have created a new tool to understand how viruses become resistant to medicines.
This tool, which uses computers, focuses on the Coronavirus, but can also be used for other diseases.
It helps scientists see how the virus changes to avoid being stopped by drugs.
The tool combines different computer techniques to identify these changes.
The goal is to help doctors and scientists around the world fight against drug resistance.
The tool is designed to be adaptable, and to help with various healthcare issues.
The IIT-BHU director highlighted the importance of such innovation in tackling health problems.
IIT-BHU scientists developed a framework to understand viral drug resistance.
The framework primarily targets SARS-CoV-2 but can be applied to other pathogens.
It uses computer-based methods like protein design and machine learning.
The framework helps identify mutations leading to drug resistance.
The team plans to make the framework freely available to scientists worldwide.
- Who
- Scientists at IIT-BHU
- What
- Developed a new computational framework to check drug resistance of viruses.
- When
- The study was recently published.
- Where
- Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)
- Why
- To understand how viruses evolve to evade drugs and treatments.
- Institution
- Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)
- Lead Researcher
- Aditya Kumar Padhi
- Publication
- Biophysical Journal
- Focus Pathogen
- SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus)
- Technology Focus
- Drug resistance in viruses
- Technology Name
- Integrated multi-scale computational framework