Dr. Pillay V. V., Professor at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi, published his latest reference book on Toxicology.
An Amrita paper titled, “A Novel Underactuated Multi-fingered Soft Robotic Hand for Prosthetic Application”,was published in the Elsevier’s Journal, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (impact factor:1.950), affiliated with the Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Society.
Faculty members from Amrita School of Ayurveda visited the University of Milan under the Indo-Italian project.
Amrita School of Ayurveda inaugurated its ACARA (Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda) Laboratory on December 15, 2017.
Amrita School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and University of Milan has jointly received funding from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and Ministero Degli Affari Esterie Della Cooperazione Internazionale, Italy (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy) for researcher exchange program for a duration of three years from 2017- 2019.
Dr. Indulekha C. L. Pillai, Assistant Professor, Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri, has been awarded the prestigious Ramalingaswami Fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, on 15th November 2017, for a period of 5 years.
Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Director, Computational Neuroscience and Neurophysiology and Associate Professor, Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri, was an invited speaker for the third time at an event organised by the International School of Brain Cells & Circuits.
The articles authored by Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Kochi, are featured in the November and December 2017 issues of CSI Communications magazine of Computer Society of India (CSI).
A 15-member team of officials from the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to India, New Delhi, and constituent nations of EU, visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Kochi from November 23-24, 2017.
The researchers at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi has found a way to burn liver cancer. They have turned a substance commonly found in bones into apotent weapon that can seek and kill tumour cells.