IISER TVM has made a substantial quantity of hand sanitizers for handover to various agencies in support of the fight against the COVID-19 infection. The initiative was spearheaded by Prof. J N Moorthy, Prof. K George Thomas, Prof. Y Vankar, Prof. Mahesh Hariharan, Dr Reji Varghese, Dr. Veera Reddy Yatham, Dr. Soumen De and Dr. Basudev Sahoo with several of our technical assistants and students chipping in.