On December 16, 2015 NVIDIA India awarded Dr. Shyam Diwakar the NVIDIA Innovation Award for Amrita School of Biotechnology’s work on Computational Neuroscience. The award was received by Ms. Manjusha Nair on Dr. Shyam’s behalf at the Professor’s meet event co-located with IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2015).
Amrita School of Biotechnology PhD students awarded at International symposium on Translational Neuroscience, Indian Academy of Neuroscience’s Annual Conference. XXXIII Annual conference of Indian Academy of neurosciences was held from October. . .
Amrita School of Biotechnology announced the revised timetable for Second Periodical Examination- November 2015.
Amrita School of Biotechnology Assistant Professor Dr. Shyam Diwakar is an invited speaker at School of Brain Cells & Circuits “Camillo Golgi” organized by Professors Egidio D’Angelo of University of Pavia, Italy and Prof. Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott of University College London, UK. The event is hosted and locally organized by Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice (Italy).
Navaratri was extensively celebrated at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus from 14 to 23 October, 2015.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham participated at the World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF) 2015 held at Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence, Italy from September 20-24, 2015.
The wish that Maaveli was granted by Lord Vishnu was to be able to see his people once every year and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham ensured that the sight he saw. . .
The 12th Convocation of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was held at Coimbatore campus on September 7, 2015. Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Honourable Union Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Government of India and Shri. N. Chandrasekaran, CEO, TCS, were the Guests of Honour at the convocation ceremony.
Dr. Madhavan Chalat, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, addressed the students and faculty of Amrita School of Biotechnology on August 20, 2015.
Dr. Sunitha De Sousa, the Director of SD Consulting, Bangalore addressed the students and faculty of Amrita School of Biotechnology on August 11, 2015 on Repurposing an Oxazolidinone (AZD5847) for the Treatment of Tuberculosis.