As an initiative to increase awareness on global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), as well as to encourage best practices among the general public, and health workers to stop the further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections, *WHO has declared November 18-24 as the Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW).
The Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) made its initial foray into the Antimicrobial research arena in 2014 after having been selected by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Department of Biotechnology, Government of India for the Reinvent the Toilet Grand Challenge Award, to address the problems of infection and smell in waste water.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has become the first Indian University to partner with European Union's Human Brain Project that has 143 University institutes in Europe working together to understand brain function and develop solutions to better understand and cure brain diseases.
An International Webinar on Phytochemistry 2020 organized by Kerala Academy of Sciences from September 28-29, 2020, witnessed strong participation from the Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT).
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was recently signed between U-Hopper Srl (an Italian company developing Big Data Analytics and AI solutions) and Amrita Center for Research and Development (ACRD). The collaboration engages the work of Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Associate Professor at Amrita School of Biotechnology, on a study about the analysis of virtual lab data using Machine Learning.
