Creating an engine of scientific discovery, an Indo-Japan perspective: learnings from IJNTC 2025 workshop
The Nobel Turing Challenge (NTC) proposes AI systems capable of autonomous, Nobel-level scientific discovery. The IJNTC2025 workshop convened researchers from India and Japan to advance this goal in health and biomedicine. This perspective synthesizes four themes: knowledge extraction, laboratory automation, hypothesis generation, and equitable healthcare applications. It identifies how Japan's robotics and precision AI expertise and India's large-scale data infrastructure and frugal innovation offer complementary strengths for collaborative progress toward the NTC.
Authors
- Yosuke Ozawa
- Natalia Polouliakh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8266-2697)
- Anton Kratz
- Moreno Zolfo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6661-4046)
- Ganesh Bagler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1924-6070)
- Daniel Evans-Yamamoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6467-3827)
- Ryota Yamada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9865-9875)
- Sucheendra K. Palaniappan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2829-2311)
- Jihun Choi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9105-9328)
- Samik Ghosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0239-5400)
- Ashwini Patil
- Johan Nyström-Persson
- Tavpritesh Sethi
- Jun Seita
- Ravindranath Kancherla
- Srinivas Padmanabhan
- Manas Kala
- Hiroaki Kitano
- Satish Kottapalli
- Ajay Sethi
Institutions
- Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IN)
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (JP)
- Karnataka State Open University (IN)
- Global Hospitals (IN)
- Systems Biology Institute (JP)
- Sony Computer Science Laboratories (JP)
- SRM University (IN)
- Fukuda Denshi (Japan) (JP)
- George Institute for Global Health (IN)
- Verus Research (United States) (US)
- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (JP)
- Nagasaki University (JP)
- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- npj Systems Biology and Applications
- Published
- 2026-04-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41540-026-00714-2
- Primary Topic
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Waseda University
- Office of Naval Research