The Formula category racing car designed and built by students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has won multiple awards, including the National Award for ‘Best Appearance at SUPRA 2016, a national engineering contest organised by SAE India. The car also received third place overall and bagged the second prize in design and cost estimation categories.
The Department of Ophthalmology at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences secured the tenth position for rendering best ophthalmic services in the All India Lifestyle Hospital and Clinic Ranking Survey 2016 conducted by the Times Group.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapetham, in collaboration with SAARC Countries and Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP), conducted an expert consultation meeting on “Assessment of the Role of Agro-processing as a Key Component of Rural Mass Employment and Rural Development Models” at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapetham, Coimbatore on 18th-19th August, 2016.
Amrita Centre for Nanoscience and Molecular Medicine, Kochi scientists lead by Prof. Manzoor Koyakutty and Prof. Shantikumar Nair (Centre Director) received two international patents from USA, Europe, Japan and China for a path-breaking invention in cancer-nanomedicine for treating drug-resistant cancers.
The Kochi-based Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (Amrita Hospital) has conducted India’s first double forearm transplant on a 21-year-old youth, Jith Kumar Saji, who lost both his hands below the elbow in 2013 due to electrical burns. This is the third double-hand transplant at the hospital, which is currently the only facility in India with the capability to conduct hand transplants.
The students from SAEINDIA Collegiate Chapters of Amrita School of Engineering in Amritapuri, Bengaluru and Coimbatore campuses qualified for the main BAJA SAEINDIA 2016, which will be held later this year.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham recently coordinated the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 program between 10 universities in Europe and 10 universities in India with the final meeting conducted at the University of Porto, Portugal from May 24th-25th, 2016.
Amrita School of Business (ASB) has inaugurated its 21st batch of full-time MBA program (Class of 2018) at Amriteshwari Hall in the campus on 6 June 2016. The new batch comprises of 135 students from all over the country, coming from different disciplines, including engineering, medicine, arts and science.
Renowned director and artist Shekhar Kapur focuses on Amrita University Chancellor Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma, in this new documentary, investigating the source of human compassion and creativity.
Every week Nature India hand-picks a selection of papers that might be of interest or relevance to the scientific community in the region. In this regard, researchers at the Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, were thrilled to find that their work which was recently published in the USA based journal Bioorganic Chemistry (Kalyanvenkatraman S. et al, 66, 72-79, 2016) was the research pick of the week in Nature India.
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