Dr. Madhavan Chalat, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, addressed the students and faculty of Amrita School of Biotechnology on August 20, 2015.
Dr. Sunitha De Sousa, the Director of SD Consulting, Bangalore addressed the students and faculty of Amrita School of Biotechnology on August 11, 2015 on Repurposing an Oxazolidinone (AZD5847) for the Treatment of Tuberculosis.
Amrita School of Biotechnology’s Computational Neuroscience Lab participated at this year’s International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) held at INEC conventional center, Killarney, Ireland.
United Nations Academic Impact and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham hosted Skills and Technology Accelerating Rapid Transformation [START] Conference on Technology for Sustainable Development on July 8, 2015 at the United Nations Head Quarters in New York.
Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, joined hands with Wipro Technologies to build an end-to-end Diabetes Solution for Indian masses, funded by The Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)- a Government of India Enterprise.
A two-week Hands-on Workshop on Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity (CAMP) was held at National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore as a summer school on the theory and simulation of learning, memory and plasticity in the brain.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed by the Chancellor Master and Scholars of the University of Oxford acting for its Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and by Dr. Bipin Nair, the Dean of Amrita School of Biotechnology, for Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham on January 12th, 2015.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham will now be able to access new technology after being named a CUDA Research Center by NVIDIA. With this Amrita will join Imperial College London, Purdue University, IIT Rourkee and others as a NVIDIA designated research center.
Dr. Anirban Banerjee, Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay addressed the students and faculty of Amrita School of Biotechnology on March 2, 2015. His seminar was titled “Molecular Basis of Group B Streptococcal Pathogenesis: The Hidden Facts”.
Dr. Ignitius Kunjumon, Faculty at the department of Atmospheric Sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology, addressed the students and faculty of Amrita School of Biotechnology on February 18th 2015.