Conference on nanomedicine

The DDU Kaushal Kendra of St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangaluru in association with Applied Science Departments will organise a one-day national conference on ‘recent innovations in nanomedicine and drug delivery’ sponsored by ‘Star College Scheme’ of DBT Government of India on September 3.

The conference aims at providing a common platform to students, teachers and researchers to exchange and share their experience on applications of nanomedicine.

Dr V Rajendran, Principal, Dr NGP Arts and Science College (Autonomous) Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu and Dr M Vijaya Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Yenepoya University will be the chief guests.

Dr Rajkumar Banerjee, Principal Scientist, Applied Biology Division, CSIR Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad will deliver a lecture on ‘Nanodrug against Cancer’.

Dr Ashwini Sharma, Department of Chemistry and Biology, IISER, Tirupati will address on ‘Oligonucleotides from detection to therapeutics’.

Dr Vathsala P G, Principal Research Scientist, IISc Bangalore, will speak on ‘combination therapy for malaria’ and Dr Geetha Balakrishna, Director CNMS, Jain University, Bangalore will address on ‘Quantum dot- bioprobes for pathogen detection.’

More than 400 participants from various colleges and universities are expected to participate.