Dr. Lekshmi R. Nath, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy, Amrita School of Pharmacy, Health Sciences campus, Kochi, was awarded the Bharat Vikas Award 2018 by the Institute of Self Reliance, Bhubaneswar, for her loyalty, diligence and outstanding performance in the field of Cancer Chemoprevention.
A project for portable water purifiers under the Jivamritam: Clean Drinking Water Project, the joint project of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, the Consulate General of Israel to South India, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv University, was inaugurated at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, on January 21, 2019.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Università degli Studi di Milano (University of Milan, Italy) covering research and student and staff exchanges between the Universities.
PhD scholars at Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA) Mr. Ram Kumar and Ms. Uma Gopalakrishnan published a research work titled “Multiparty Gaze Preservation through Perspective Switching for Interactive eLearning Environments” in the Springer Journal ”Multimedia Tools and Applications” with an Impact factor of 1.5.
The Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Amrita Health Sciences campus, Kochi, organized a CME (Continuing Medical Education) program on a very relevant topic called” Evolving Brain-Nature or Nurture?” on October 16th, 2018.
On 19th December 2018, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Navy for collaboration in aerospace, anti-submarine warfare, cybersecurity, management, and medical research.
An ‘International Conference on Antibiotic Stewardship and Infectious Diseases,’ was held at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, from October 27-28, 2018. Experts in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) from around the world. . .
Dr. Smita Kulkarni, Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Kochi, was awarded the prestigious degree of Fellow of European Board of Nuclear Medicine (FEBNM), after successfully clearing the European Nuclear Medicine Fellowship Examination held in October 2018 in Dusseldorf, Germany under the evaluation of European Union of Medical Specialists / European Board of Nuclear Medicine(UEMS/EBNM).
Dr. P. Rammanohar, Research Director of Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda (ĀCĀRA), Amrita School of Ayurveda, Amritapuri and faculty member of Integrative Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, visited Moscow from December 2-10, 2018.
In another stellar display of its academic excellence, 42 students and young researchers from the Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) have presented 11 peer-reviewed papers at the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI) held between 11th and 15th of September, 2018 at PES University, Bengaluru, India.
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