Certain scientists and activists, such as MIT systems scientist Dr. VA Shiva Ayyadurai, blame caste for holding back innovation and scientific research in India, making it difficult to sustain progress while regressive social organization prevails.
In 2012, VA Shiva Ayyadurai, a Tamilian and MIT systems scientist, launched an educational program for medical doctors through the Chopra Center with Deepak Chopra which integrates concepts from traditional systems medicine such as Siddha, Ayurveda, and traditional Chinese medicine, with systems science and systems biology.
Systems medicine has been popularised by, among others, Deepak Chopra, VA Shiva Ayyadurai and Andrew Weil.
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CytoSolve was founded in 2011 by Dr. VA Shiva Ayyadurai, an inventor, systems scientist and MIT-trained systems biologist, following his doctoral research in molecular systems biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), department of Biological Engineering, and his field work in eastern and traditional systems of medicine such as Siddha, Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
EchoMail's core technology originated from VA Shiva Ayyadurai's invention for classifying inbound email for the U.S. White House, which was seeking a reliable encryption and classification system for U.S. President Bill Clinton's email.