Sukant Khurana, Ph.D. Profile Banner
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D. Profile
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.

@Sukant_Khurana

3,856
Followers
1,669
Following
8,338
Media
56,959
Statuses

#Brainhealth #AI #Medicine #IOT #Epilepsy | PhD #UTAustin #Neuro #cellbio #Northwestern #math #NYU #AI #CSHL | Ex-Prof. | Founder #Ioncure | #Citizenscience

NYC, Delhi, and London
Joined May 2013
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
This is the rejection letter for the work that just won the Nobel Prize. Believe in yourself. Everyone else will catch up eventually.
Tweet media one
400
18K
73K
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
Just because gatekeepers of system reject your idea, it does not mean your idea is wrong. Here are 8 rejections that went on to win a #NobelPrize . Keep your head high, find an environment where you'll blossom, and stay focused.
6
279
845
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
Here's my first novel on simulated reality, age of VR and AI, and humans becoming gradually redundant. A lot of humor on academic review process too. #MedTwitter #AcademicTwitter #writers "Space Hamsters, only blondes on Mars, and sharks with lasers."
176
241
249
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
@drleatongray Yes, I've received even strange rejections, such as "the article is too interdisciplinary and there are no reviewers for it."
6
21
426
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
By March end, 2000 books on epilepsy awareness (encompassing 35 plus languages), 1200 videos, 500 documentaries, 1200 magazine articles. This is all self funded. @DBTIndia @BJP4India @DrMohanBhagwat @IndiaDST @ICMRDELHI @PMOIndia @Nature @BillGates @BMGFIndia @WHO @NIH @cure_ion
86
401
222
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
I got quoted by @CNN for my tweet on #CampaCola
Tweet media one
2
0
129
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 months
Hilarious how suddenly professors from various IITs are now looking up my LinkedIn profile. The last visitor is Preeti Sinha from IIT Delhi. What a bunch of useless faculty from shitty institutes who need to become active not for research but for PR.
7
9
213
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
@cairdin You have a great point but by the time (7 years later) Radcliffe was already well celebrated. Does Nature pick winning ideas or people who have already won?
1
6
206
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
@_its_zach @drleatongray That's what I thought. We find application of that work in almost all fields. After rejection from Nature, Cell, Science, and PNAS we are restructuring (read dumbing down and breaking into smaller units) for it to get through. Here's a TEDx talk on it.
2
13
144
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
3 years
@madversity Compared to Modi, I think AliaBhatt will make a better PM. Lesser acting, higher intelligence, and certainly less destruction of fabric of India. Anyone but Modi. P.S., I'm not saying make Alia PM; you get the drift.
1
4
97
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
@milindwatve has a falsifiable (as all good scientific ideas should be) ideas on #type2diabetes . I think, scientific community should read his work, and also look at his scientific journey to understand what ails Indian science. @DBTIndia @PMOIndia @RSSorg @IndiaDST @AmitShah
@biotechdhaba
Dr. Manish Kumar
1 year
Normalizing glucose in type 2 diabetes! Is it the best strategy for treatment of type 2 diabetes? “Prof. Watve counters this common belief”. Inviting experts in the field for their expert opinion and comments here. The full podcast to be premiered so…
0
2
2
8
53
29
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
Thank you @reliancegroup for bringing back nostalgia of #CampaCola
4
46
36
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
6 years
We created a podcast series of 8 episodes on Incubation centers in India; academia-industry collaboration. This is the first of its kind series. @ravishni #MakeInIndia #startupindia @DBTIndia @BIRAC_2012 @IndiaDST @ICMRDELHI @PMOIndia
3
23
64
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 years
@DarthPutinKGB An oil facility directly responsible for the flow of #Russian oil to Europe is on fire in #Bryansk , #Russia . Next to it, just a few km away, a Russian military base is on fire. You remain a master strategist.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
8
3
78
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
Tweet media one
0
37
83
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
6 years
We are committed to science awareness, education, and technology development for the common man, along with basic research. Coverage of our outreach today. @ravishni @PMOIndia @narendramodi @India_Alliance @DBTIndia @IndiaDST @ICMRDELHI @drharshvardhan
Tweet media one
6
19
43
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 months
@ArunKNairr Sure, it's research integrity. Data fabrication and short termism to succeed anyhow.
5
3
67
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 years
@lapatina_ I don't know anyone with comparable courage in recent times. Ukranians are standing up to Goliath Russian imperialists and forcing them to retreat from so many fronts. Free world owes it's freedom to Ukraine for not giving up.
7
5
66
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
4 years
Need I say more?
Tweet media one
2
28
66
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
11 months
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
4
9
53
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
A professor was lecturing "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in Russian, a double negative remains negative. But there isn't a single language, in which a double positive can express a negative." A voice from the back of the room, "Yeah, right."
0
11
56
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
Tweet media one
1
19
54
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
4 years
I have a joke but it's not peer-reviewed. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter
1
5
51
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
#Ioncure is working on #epilepsyawareness in 100+ languages. We are writing plays, songs, creating animations, documentaries, and feature films. We started with songs in the ancient #Sanskrit language. Here is a thread of 16 songs on #epilepsy . @gatesfoundation @PMOIndia @WHO
80
64
46
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
Just because gatekeepers of system reject your idea, it does not mean your idea is wrong. Here are 8 rejections that went on to win a #NobelPrize and change the world. Keep your head high, find an environment where you'll blossom, and stay focused.
0
20
46
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 months
@kshatresh Good point. For us that has been true. When we were just a small startup with no valuation, we were blessed with a few bright students. Now, I've offered one a 5 percent equity in a new venture, after she helped build a brand worth 140 million. There are gems in India and world.
0
0
38
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
This tweet hit the raw nerve.
Tweet media one
0
0
36
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
4 years
1938 Dymaxion ,designed by American inventor Buckminster Fuller.
Tweet media one
4
10
35
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
Tweet media one
0
35
37
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 months
@Kantcan_ I am happy to have such poor bias, after having team of top US scientists, including work with two Noble laureates. I have also reported and have got IITs to retract several research papers.
1
0
34
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 years
@MargoGontar @AporiaConner This is the fight for a free world. Ukraine is carrying on its shoulders the weight of whole Western civilization.
7
1
35
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 years
@apmassaro3 Russia needs to be split into smaller states at the end of this war.
1
1
33
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
3 years
Tweet media one
1
5
35
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
3 years
Tweet media one
0
2
36
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
Difficult to find a non-govt organization with such a laser focus to find cure for any disease as @CureEpilepsy . One of the great things of working in the field of epilepsy is the joy of seeing such committed organizations and individuals.
5
8
30
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
Epilepsy impacts 1 percent of global population and has a global influence of few trillion dollars, in terms of loss of possible productivity, cost of life, comorbidities, including depression and suicide, and influence on the life of friends and families. Most of it is solvable.
57
12
31
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
Tweet media one
2
4
32
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
3 years
Tweet media one
0
3
32
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
Kiev in 3 days has now become Moscow in 3 days. Whether Putin goes in 3 days or 3 months, one must ensure the safety of people. It is not a war between Russian people and Ukrainian people. It is a war created by Putin against Ukrainian people. #Putin #Prigozhin #Russia #Ukraine
1
10
32
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
This is showing only success story. Its not showing the human, economic, and social costs. The positive message is to believe in yourself but more important subtext is to fix the system. Academia and scientific publication should be about innovation but they often get in its way.
0
3
31
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
7 years
@lifeboathq what are your suggestions?
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
7 years
Please send me suggestions of your favorite theoretical journals in biology. #theory #biology
0
1
0
1
19
3
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
Looking for machine learning students and professionals for a volunteer, work-from-home project on " #ArtificialIntelligence for #drugdiscovery ". The project is to tackle poor man's disease of #tuberculosis and is co-mentored by me and few collaborators from Austin, NY, & Toronto.
14
19
29
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
After studying microbiology.
Tweet media one
0
5
30
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
4 years
Tweet media one
0
4
29
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
4 years
Tweet media one
0
7
30
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
2
0
28
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
We are developing diets, new supplements, new medicine, working on manufacturing of generics, opening schools for kids with epilepsy, ADHD, autism, and trauma, designs of clothes and furniture, apps to maintain online diaries, and prediction. We are working on all fronts to cure.
51
7
28
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
We are running the largest epilepsy citizen science awareness effort in the world, with hundreds of physicians, scientists, and students joining us each month.
41
12
28
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
3 years
Tweet media one
3
4
27
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
4 years
Simpsons have predicted from Donald Trump, Pandemic to even first female dictator of #NorthKorea correctly. Someone get hold of time machine they have. Jesus, they are spot on! #Simpsons #KimYoJong #KIMJONGUNDEAD
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
0
37
26
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
4 years
How do you say Black lives matter in Punjabi?
Tweet media one
1
3
27
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
How vegans are made?
Tweet media one
3
6
25
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 years
@apmassaro3 I wish I had such trolls. :) Keep doing the good work. You also have loyal supporters, not just trolls.
1
0
25
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 years
Tweet media one
2
8
22
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
There are days, you can't find motivation but there are days motivation finds you.
Tweet media one
0
10
25
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 years
To spread the Ukranian culture, at the onset of Putin's barbaric attack, I had reached into savings to hire people to research various aspects of Ukrainian culture. We will start to publish the work in form of books, podcasts, animation, artworks. #SlavaUkrainii
0
10
21
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
Blockchain is being used for better and healthier seafood too. My group at @CSIR_IND has developed first open source one for counterfeit medicine. We hope, we can re-purpose it for other food and health applications too. @ravishni @shekhar_mande @Drskrath
9
16
23
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
We will soon release 500 video shorts/documentaries about #EpilepsyAwareness , several songs, art, and board games on Feb 13th, the international epilepsy day. It is not just our effort but of the whole #epilepsy community. We welcome patients, doctors, researchers to join us.
2
13
22
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
This calls for systematically exploring alternative models of publication.
Tweet media one
0
1
23
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 months
@TarunSingh73911 Very happy to talk to you, and give you advice, tailored to your background, experience and aspirations. Don't do my mistake of thinking that you can do research anywhere. I find that in failing places there is more politics than science.
1
1
22
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 months
@prostabprince IITs have a good structure for engineering but for masters and Ph.D. they have a long way to go, and India in general leaves a lot to be desired. That said, there are always exceptions. Do well in your research.
2
1
21
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
In the End we will Remember not the Words of our Enemies but the Silence of our Friends. Martin Luther King Jr
0
4
21
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 months
@SudipDP True that.
1
0
21
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
6 years
Watch one of the topmost neuroscientists in the world and a mom, who works on developmental neuroscience at #TIFR and champions women in STEM talk at #TEDTalksIndiaNayiSoch on #WonderOfLearning
1
2
22
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
@Bangasser_Lab Holy cow! Cassowary toes can inflict serious damage. My few close encounters with wildlife, decades apart were in the same place in Thekkadi in Periyar district, Kerela India. First time tiger, and cobra, second time an elephant charging, group of Sambar deer and wild hogs.
1
1
20
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
4 years
If you think you have a lifestyle, self-reliance, resilience course to teach, we are launching a platform for that. Teachers get 70% of the payments irrespective of prerecorded or live teaching. Come teach a hobby or a job skill or management. Please check
3
22
19
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
Tweet media one
1
10
22
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
4 years
Someone ordered a birthday cake over the phone - for Marc.
Tweet media one
3
6
20
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 months
@ArunKNairr The problem is focus on grades, memorization, answering questions which have been asked for the last ten years, and recycling unoriginal projects. Independent thinking is missing. IITs and top places (I was educated in one before pursuing a PhD in the USA) teach presentation.
3
1
20
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
7 years
“How to write paragraphs” by @Write4Research Useful advice for scientific writing.
0
10
21
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
Tweet media one
0
1
21
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
9 months
@mashaals @eLife @mbeisen Thank you. I hope ELife shuts down.
0
0
21
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
7 years
Remember one of the 1st chats with a student after move to India in 14 on it; alas was no action in Bengal but great to see movement in US.
@LifeboatHQ
Lifeboat Foundation
7 years
Google’s DeepMind talks with National Grid to apply AI to energy use
Tweet media one
0
18
4
0
20
3
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
Never fear change.
Tweet media one
0
3
19
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 years
Tweet media one
0
2
18
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
6 years
#Canada & #USA are 2 countries that are magnets for dreamers and doers, symbolizing freedom in not just economic sense but also political and spiritual. Their success is not built on what is below the soil but in the content & inventiveness of their people. #CanadaDay #JulyFourth
0
0
5
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
2 years
Calling researchers from around the world to join us in researching everything about coffee at #Ioncure . Email at coffee @ioncurerx .com #coffee #ArtificialIntelligence #agriculture #Trade
Tweet media one
3
11
17
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
Our program provides opportunity to thousands of MBBS, MD, BSc, MSc, BTech, MTech students who otherwise are unable to find the opportunity to advanced research and science outreach. We teach to podcast, write magazine articles, books, and do serious epidemiological research.
0
5
17
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
Tweet media one
0
4
16
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
@vikichi @iampaulgrenier @gatesfoundation @PMOIndia @WHO Here is some coverage in India's oldest English newspaper, known for its most stringent standards of journalism. The article is on our epilepsy efforts. There are several dozen such links, I will just post a few.
0
17
16
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
#Ukraine culture should spread across the world. #India should #StandWithUkraine . What better way than to connect through food? After a year of exploration, we publish 100 fusion cuisines. @Ukraine @POTUS @PMOIndia @RishiSunak @NATO @StateDept @MFA_Ukraine
13
110
13
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
4 years
We, a group of 26 scientists from few countries, such as USA, India, Italy, and Canada, have put together a virtual group of work from home research on drug discovery for SARS-CoV2. We are looking to expand our team. #drugdiscovery #Covid19 #SARSCoV2
2
12
13
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
@vikichi @iampaulgrenier @gatesfoundation @PMOIndia @WHO Here is a documentary on the style of my art, which happens to be permanent exhibit at several esteemed venues, including the world famous McGovern center and several venues in London, NY, Sydney, Delhi, Beijing. You will find neuroscience connects too.
0
16
16
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
I dislike AAP's opportunism. I lost one golden year of my life, which could have been spent on finding new cures to diseases while fighting for anticorruption movement but I will still vote for AAP with my nose closed. Greater good should dictate the course of action.
@AdityaMenon22
Aditya Menon
5 years
Dr @_YogendraYadav what's the point of claiming to fight against bigotry when you tell people to be neutral where it matters most?
60
258
566
2
1
16
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
@vikichi @iampaulgrenier @gatesfoundation @PMOIndia @WHO This Forbes article will also give you my take on data privacy in the age of AI, and future of AI. This is not Forbes India but main Forbes link.
0
15
17
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
@vikichi @iampaulgrenier @gatesfoundation @PMOIndia @WHO Here is our work in TEDx on depression. It is a mere 25 years of training, including from UT Austin, NYU, CSHL, Northwestern, and professor position in 3 institutes that has led me here, where we have so many volunteers. I will encourage you to do the same
0
17
16
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
5 years
Can't wait for the next trip to Western Ghats, India. So many uncharacterized species, and wild relatives of domestic plants. A treasure trove for medically useful fungi too. Goldmine for ethnopharmacology, novel food sources, and drug discovery.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
0
3
17
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
@vikichi @iampaulgrenier @gatesfoundation @PMOIndia @WHO Here is another official government of India website for you to know the funding we have received and the outstanding work we have done to be now selected for the next stage.
0
15
16
@Sukant_Khurana
Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
1 year
Tweet media one
0
2
16