Kerala Chief Minister Pinnarayi Vijayan visited Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine on Saturday, March 11, 2017. The Chief Minister was received at the Centre by Dr. Shantikumar Nair, Centre Director and Dean of Research, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Dr. Manitha B. Nair, Assistant Professor at the Amrita Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has received the ‘Kerala State Young Scientist Award’ for the year 2016, in the Health Sciences category.
Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), under Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham had been fortunate in its ability to successfully graduate 31 PhD graduates in the 10 years since its establishment. Most of them are currently doing post doctoral research or employed in research positions all over the world.
The students of both M. Tech. and Ph. D. and post doctoral researchers at Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, have always been exemplary in their participation in national and international events related to their research work.
Mr. John Joseph, Ph. D. scholar at Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, has been selected for the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship by the UK Department of International Development (DFID) to pursue research on biodegradable vascular grafts at Bristol Heart Institute, United Kingdom (UK).
Dr. Manzoor Koyakutty, Professor, ACNS, Kochi, has started Amrita Nano’s first spinoff company named LuxMatra, meaning molecules activated by light.
Students at Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Centre for Storage Integrated Solar Panels, at Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala, have successfully made upto 250 watt Si solar panels in the lab which they then have deployed themselves in Indian villages that have no grid power.
While checking the toxicity potential of nano zinc oxide (ZnO) on teleost fish model, Japanese medaka (Oryziaslatipes), Dr. Bindhu Paul, Assistant Professor, ACNSMM, Kochi and team, observed that porous nano zinc oxide particles abolished the male-specific sexual and terrestrial behavioral patterns leading to mating incompetence.
Researchers at Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, utilized a small amount of cerebrospinal fluid and by using a specially developed sensitive proteomics technique, were able to detect a specific protein marker that appears to express itself in this fluid to indicate the presence of CNS Leukemia.
Scientists at Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, developed a polymer protein, or protein-protein core-shell nano particle system, that takes one drug on the nano-shell and another one in the nano-core.
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