File photo of launch of Chanakya University in Jnana Jyothi Auditorium in Bengaluru
Credit: DH photo/S K Dinesh
Bengaluru: Chanakya University, established in 2022, is now introducing The Chanakya School of Biosciences.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson of Biocon Limited and Member of International Advisory Committee at Chanakya, will inaugurate the institute in the city on Saturday.
While the university has undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Commerce and Management, School of Law and School of Mathematics, Biosciences is a new field of discourse being introduced this academic year.
Krishna Kurthkoti, Associate Professor in the School of Biosciences, told DH that as a debut programme, they are introducing a postgraduate diploma in Synthetic Bioinformatics and Life Sciences in the pilot year. He added that scholars specialised in various subfields, including disease biology, genomics, computational biology and biomedical engineering, will be teaching the course.