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.
Dr. Uma Devi P., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi, presented two papers at the “World Congress on Nutraceuticals and Natural Medicine” which explored the advances in nutraceuticals and natural medicine research, development and design.
As part of the Indo-German collaborative project ‘FloodEvac’, the researchers of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA) and TU München, Germany, published a joint paper in the Journal of Hydroinformatics.
The collaboration between Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s School of Biotechnology and Tata Institute of Genetics and Society (TIGS) will focus on developing new tools to reverse antibiotic resistance in pathogens like Pseudomonas aeruginosa which have been declared as ‘critical priority’ by the World Health Organization.
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Director, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amritapuri campus and Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Director, Computational Neuroscience and Neurophysiology, Amritapuri, participated as Young Faculty Research Fellows of the Visvesvaraya PhD scheme by Digital India corporation under Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India, at Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, from September 13-15, 2018.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (AmritaWNA) has received a new US patent (Patent number US9996168B2) for “Wearable wireless tongue controlled devices”.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA) has been granted a new U.S. patent (US20170230841A1) for its OceanNet project, developed by a team of researchers from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.