Amrita’s research work has been selected as editor’s choice for the upcoming February 2018 issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Archives of Disease in Childhood (Impact factor 3.27).
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham secured top honours in Computer Society of India (CSI) Annual Convention 2017, for the second consecutive year, held at Science City, Kolkata from 19 to 21 January, 2018. Amrita received 10 national awards from CSI, more than any other university or institution in India.
Amrita Centre for Nanosciences & Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, received the ‘Best Exhibitor Award’ in the Content and Information Category at the Bengaluru India Nano 2017 International Conference held at Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru, from 7th to 8th December 2017.
Ms. Devika Das, Research Scholar, at Amrita Centre for Nanosciences & Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, won the Best Poster Award for her work titled “Anti-Cancer Drug Loaded Nanoimplant for Glioblastoma Treatment”, at the Nanobioteck – 2017 conference, organised by the Indian Society of Nanomedicine (ISNM) in partnership with Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India.
Rubber Asia, a business magazine highlighted the views and opinions of Dr. Viswanathan P. K., Professor of Economics and Sustainability at Amrita School of Business, Kochi, on the changing facets of the Indian rubber industry in the context of globalization in an exclusive interview published recently.
Dr. Manzoor Koyakutty, Professor of Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, was awarded the ‘Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc)’ during the 87th Annual Meeting of the Academy held at Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, on December 9, 2017.
Prof. K. R. Sundaram, Professor and Head of Biostatistics at Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi, received the Smt. Ramrati Lalima Sahai Award for the year 2016 at its Thirty-fifth Annual National Conference, held on November 2-4, 2017.
Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science), the global leader in trusted insights and analytics for research and innovation, announced the 6th edition of the India Research Excellence-Citation Awards-2017, recognizing and honouring research excellence in the country on different fields and Dr. R. Jayakumar, Professor at the Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has received this award under the “Medical & Health Sciences” discipline. The awards were held at Sheraton, New Delhi, on November 3, 2017.
Dr. Vijay Harish Somasundaram, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, presented a part of his doctoral work at the 15th annual ANMPI (Association of Nuclear Medicine Physicians of India) conference held in association with the ICC (Indian Cancer Congress) 2017 conference at Bangalore, from November 8th to 12th, 2017.
Amrita faculty members, Dr. Jayakumar M, Chairperson, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, and Prashant R. Nair, Vice Chairperson, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, have been elected as Fellows of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India.