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Bharath University to conduct International Conference on “Emerging trends in Bio-Engineering”

Posted on: 18/Mar/2011 7:05:22 AM
Department of Bio-Engineering of Bharath University will organize an International Conference on Emerging Trends in Bio-Engineering 2011(ICETIB-11) on 28th and 29th of March 2011 at Bharath University, Chennai.  The conference will convene students, researchers, faculties, scientists and industrialist in the field of Bio-informatics, Biotechnology, Bio-Medical, Nano-Biotechnology and Cheminformatics. The chief guest of the function is Prof. Linday Brown, University of southern Queensland, Australia.  

More than 100 research scholars and key speakers from across the country are expected to participate in the conference. Dr. M. Sivanandham, Dean Research & Head Biotechnology, Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Chennai will deliver the keynote address. Also, scientists from CSIR, CLRI, MIT etc., are expected to participate in the event. 

The conference will also specially focus on recent trends in drug discovery programs as there is a lot of scope in India for biogeneric drugs as many of them are going off-patent in coming years.  Dr.P.Krishnamoorthy, the convener of the conference, Dean Bio-Engineering, Bharath University will update on recent advancement in drug designing in Bio-informatics.