With the TOYA Award, the 29-year-old doctor joins the ranks of former US President Bill Clinton, entrepreneur Henry Ford and rock legend Elvis Presley. Among other prominent personalities who have received the TOYA Award in the past are former US presidents John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon, as also former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Vikram, who migrated to the US in 1996, was named among the 'World's 100 Top Innovators Under 35' in biotechnology and medicine in 2004 by the Technology Review magazine.

The founder of the medical clinic -- Dimagi Inc - Vikram says, "Dimagi is a success because of my passionate and tireless co-founders Dr Vishwanath Anantraman, Tarjei Mikkelsen and Jonathan Jackson. We continue to attract the best technical minds because we do things that are both important and interesting. And as my father says, we are striving to do well by doing good."

Vikram came to this field through a unique combination of engineering and medical educations he had as an undergraduate at IIT and Columbia and as a graduate student at Harvard and MIT. Presently, he is doing a residency in Clinical Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital to develop a foundation in diagnostic technologies.