Ms. Vidhya Prakash (Assistant Professor, School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) won the prestigious ‘Best Young Researcher’ award at Biospectrum 2019, an international conference on Advances in Food and Industrial Biotechnology.
A team of delegates from the Cell Biology Lab of School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, participated in the 3rd International Conference on Osteoarthritis, organized by the Indian Rheumatology Association, Karnataka Chapter, from August 3-4, 2019, at Bengaluru.
Dr. Shyam S. Jose from the Center for Transnational Medicine, International Clinical Research Center, Czech Republic, delivered a talk on the topic 'Non-canonical Role of Telomerase Complex in the Immune System Functions' at School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, on November 11, 2019.
Amrita Adjunct Professor John Jefferson Perry Awarded US Department of Defense Grant to Develop Novel Lead Compound to Treat Breast Cancer
John Jefferson Perry, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside and International Adjunct Professor, School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, received a grant from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, or CDMRP, of the US Department of Defense to develop a novel lead compound to treat breast cancer. "Our goal is to bring to the clinic a novel lead compound that selectively targets breast cancer cells," Perry said.
