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- ↑ http://mootha.med.harvard.edu/members_vm.html Mootha's biography
- ↑ https://www.broadinstitute.org/mitocarta/mitocarta30-inventory-mammalian-mitochondrial-proteins-and-pathways
- ↑ Mootha Laboratory
- ↑ Padma awards for 7 persons under NRI, PIO, foreign category - The Hindu
- ↑ "Five eminent personalities from the US get Padma awards, 3 of them Indian Americans". 27 January 2014.
- ↑ Vamsi Mootha | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- ↑ Vamsi Mootha: Taking an inventory of mitochondria
- ↑ Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences 2023
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