India’s top medical experts assembled at a two-day ‘National Conference on Healthcare Management’ at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (“Amrita Hospital”) during May 20 – 21, 2016 to call for frugal innovation to make healthcare affordable without sacrificing quality.
Dr. Shantanu Bhowmik, Head of the Research and Projects at Amrita School of Engineering and Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, was invited to deliver a lecture at Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)), Empa, Thun, Konferenzraum, Switzerland, on June 16, 2016.
Amrita Center for Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN) will conduct one of the NLP shared Tasks during FIRE 2016, an international conference on information retrieval organized by ISI Kolkatta.
Prof. Bhavani of AMMACHI Labs and Prof. Prema Nedungadi of AmritaCREATE presented at Unesco ICTs in Education’s Mobile Learning Week 2016 held at Paris, France from March 7-11, 2016.
The Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India has awarded the prestigious Young Faculty Research Fellowship under Visvesvaraya PhD scheme for Electronics and IT for the year 2015-16 to Prof. Maneesha Ramesh and Prof. Shyam Diwakar of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
In an effort to understand brain’s disease conditions from a functional role, computational neuroscience and neurophysiology lab at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s School of Biotechnology has been developing computer models based on experimental data of neurons and neural circuits.
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.
Amrita Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine’s research paper titled Graphene oxide nanoflakes incorporated gelatin-hydroxyapatite scaffolds enhance osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem authored by Dr. Manitha B. Nair, Nancy D., Amit G. Krishnan, G. S. Anjusree, Sajini Vadukumpully and Dr. Shantikumar V. Nair, was published in Nanotechnology, the first journal solely dedicated to science and technology at the nanoscale.
Dr. Sanjay Banerji, Founder Dean and Professor Emeritus, Amrita School of Business (ASB) Coimbatore was invited by Dr. Cecep Effendi, Director General, Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) to visit Dhaka, Bangladesh.
ACARA (Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda) conducted a one day workshop on Medical Statistics for Ayurveda PhD Scholars at Amrita School of Ayurveda, Amritapuri on April 18, 2016.
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