FAED in India is a Section 8 nonprofit organization committed to research and development in the areas of clinical laboratory management, pathology and laboratory medicine. The primary aim is to make accessibility of the latest technology driven best practices in the field of diagnostics for vast majority of underserved population in India and South East Asia. FAED aims to augment the ‘Essential Diagnostics List’ of the World Health Organization that has been recently adopted by the Indian Council of Medical Research for implementation in Indian health care system. The clinical laboratory plays the most important role in accurate and precise diagnosis of diseases. About 70% of clinical decisions are based on clinical laboratory tests while this is one of the most overlooked areas of medicine in the existing health care systems in India. No ‘Rx’ is easy without a proper ‘Dx’ as the practice of medicine becomes more and more evidence based and technology driven in the current age. The foundation aims to curate the ‘EDL’ based on the population specific disease dynamics in a diverse country like India by studying the current practices in clinical laboratory systems and health systems to identify the gaps and come out with scientific solutions.