AMITY UNIVERSITY HARYANA

 HANDS ON TRAINING ON MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATIONS, LIPIDOMICS AND PROTEOMICS                     TECHNIQUES

Sponsored by DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (DST) under

‘Synergistic Training Program Utilizing Scientific and Technological Infrastructure (STUTI)

Date – 22^nd -28^th August 2022

One week long “Hands-on Training on Materials Characterizations, Lipidomics and Proteomics Techniques” is being conducted by Amity University Haryana from 22^nd Augus to 28^th August, 2022 which is sponsored by the Department of Science & Technology (DST) under ‘Synergistic Training program Utilizing the Scientific and Technological Infrastructure’ (STUTI).

The Scheme ‘SynergisticTraining program Utilizing the Scientific and Technological Infrastructure’ (STUTI) is intended to build human resource and its knowledge capacity through open access S&T Infrastructure across the country. As a complement to the various schemes of DST funding for expansion of R&D Infrastructure at academic institutions, STUTI scheme envisions  hands-on training program, sensitization and sharing of the state-of-the-art equipment while ensuring transparent access of S&T facilities. The training is conducted on a hub-and-spoke model approach, where DST as the apex body, identifies an Institute/University that shall function as a Project Management Unit (PMU).

Under the vision and mission of the Hon’ble Founder President Dr Ashok K. Chauhan Sirand dynamic leadership of Dr Nitin Batra CEO Amity Institute of Training and Development, Amity University AUUP has been recognised as a STUTI’s project hub as ‘Project Management Unit’ (PMU). Under this scheme, the Amity Universe would be conducting 22 PAN India training programs in various Science and Engineering Institutes and Departments of Universities. Such programs have already been successfully conducted by Amity at IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee, IIT Patna, BHU, Guru Nanak Dev University, IIT Rourkela, AMITY Noida, NEHU Shillong.

This time, the 9^th training program is being organized by Amity University Haryana as Spoke (Partner Institute) for students/post-doctoral fellows/young faculty and researchers to impartseven day hands-on training on the state-of-the-art equipmentinfrastructure created  under DST-FIST program; used for Materials Sciences; Lipidomics and Proteomics. Amity University Haryana, a NAAC accredited A Grade University is running two DST-FIST programs one in Biotechnology and the other in Physical Sciences and has a Central Instrumentation Research Facility.

For this 9^th hands on training program, more than 600 applications were received and after careful shortlisting, 34 participantswere selected from institutions and universities all over India including post graduate students, PhD scholars, post-doctoral fellows and young faculty. It was mandatory for the participantsto stay on campus to have 24×7 basis access to facilities.

The workshop started with the registration of all participants followed by a theoretical session conducted by Dr Dipankar Malakar, Application Support Manager from Sciex. He explained the basics of liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry with special emphasis on QTRAP technology.  This was followed by an expert lecture by Dr Ashutosh Singh, Assistant Professor, University of Lucknow. He elucidated the day to day challenges faced while working with mass spectrometer. The session was interactive and the participants had a lot of queries that followed intense interaction.

The highlight of afternoon session was the inaugural session compered by Dr Deepa Suhag. The program started with welcome address by Prof. Atul Thakur, Head of Institute for Amity Centre for Nanotechnology and Amity School of Applied Sciences, Amity University Haryana. Prof. Rajendra Prasad, Dean, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology and Directors of Amity Institute of Biotechnology and Amity Integrative Sciences and Health shared the research highlights of the university with the audience.

Pro Vice Chancellor Dr. Vikas Madhukar gave his opening remarks and discussed the research ecosystem of the university and introduced various inter-disciplinary research cluster at AUH.

Prof P B Sharma, Vice Chancellor, AUH, is an Eminent Academician and Institution Builder, encouraged young minds to utilize science for nation building. He urged that outcome of research should be to eradicate hunger, finding solutions for environmental and health issues that are faced by mankind.

The key note address was delivered by the Guest of Honour, Prof. Arindam Bhattacharya. Scientist ‘E’, Research and Development Infrastructure Division of DST. Dr. Bhattacharyya emphasised on the optimal utilization of funded equipment across the country and suggested that these facilities should be provided at nominal cost to all researchers. Moreover, he encouraged to work in collaboration for better research outcome. He discussed how the STUTI program contributes in producing skilled manpower. Finally as a DST representative he complimented and congratulated Amity University Haryana for organising the workshop.

The keynote speaker of the day was Dr. Nitin Batra, CEO Amity Institute of Training and Development, thanked DST for constant support and feedback. He also shared that a LinkedIn account have been created with mission to keep all participants of STUTI program in touch and emphasised on the societal impact of such programs in the area of science and technology. Prof. A Chakraborty, the officiating Director General of Amity Foundation for Science, Technology & Innovation Alliances (AFSTIA), gave an introduction on “Amity’s contribution in shaping the research ecosystem of the country”.

With the mission of “Synergy of Brains”, Founder President, Dr. Ashok K. Chauhan, explained how this STUTI program with 22 spokes, each having approx. 30 participants is going to create to a reservoir of 660 scientists. He encouraged audience to have faith in themselves and to boost their morals, he shared his story of success. He also shared his mission on “SSE-Sense, Search and Explore”. He believes that Indians have the intelligence, talent and the potential to be the most successful people in the world and have capacity to change the world. Dr. Ujjaini Dasgupta introduced the participants and Founder President, Dr. Ashok K. Chauhan congratulated all the participants who have been selected for this workshopand encouraged them to do their best. The event was well attended that was marked with the physical presence of Prof. A Chakraborty, the officiating Director General of Amity Foundation for Science, Technology & Innovation Alliances (AFSTIA) and of  Ms  Shefali Kashyap, Assistant Director, Amity Foundation for Science, Technology & Innovation Alliances (AFSTIA), Amity Education Group, India and her team.

The workshop programme is spread over for 7-day intense training aiming to equip participants with the basic knowledge and skills required to function in material characterization and lipidomics and proteomics. The participants will experience hands-on training on DLS, TGA-DSC, UV DRS, Modular Spectrophotometer and Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry. The training program also includes lectures by eminent experts who are using these advanced facilities and pursuing high end research.

The event is blessed with the expert support of Dr. Nitin Batra CEO
Amity Institute of Training and Development; Prof. Selvamurthy, Chief Advisor DST STUTI (Amity-PMU), Advisor, Dr Rajendra Prasad. The event is being coordinated by Dr Atul Thakur  and Dr Ujjaini Dasgupta and along with the expert  support team that included Prof Preeti Thakur, Dr Chander Shekhar, Dr Chander Mohan, Dr G K Rao, Dr Dipti Vaya, Dr Supreet Kaur, Dr Manish Shandilya, Dr Abhilash Pathania, Dr Deepa Suhag , Ms Kaushavi, Ms Kanchan, Mr Sarthak and PhD Scholars from School of Applied Sciences and Biotechnology.

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In the rejuvenating time when every sector including education is recovering from effects of Covid 19, most students and their parents are uncertain about their mode of study, career, and suffering from various stresses, Amity Greater Noida came forward with a unique initiative to motivate its students and other academic fraternity through motivational talks.

In this unique initiative today Amity Greater Noida organized a talk where first lady CEO of an Airline Industry Dr. Harpreet A De Singh, Executive Director Air India Limited & Grammy Award winner Mr. Ricky Kej, Internationally renowned Indian Music Composer and Environmentalist motivated all students, parents, and faculty members.

Prof. (Dr.) Gurinder Singh, Group Vice Chancellor of Amity Universities chaired the session and welcomed both the speakers. Dr. Singh talked about the need for motivation in life and shared many experiences with the audience. Dr. Singh explained the role of social service in the development of society, he further added that we all should come forward and take self-initiative towards social growth and development. At last, he motivated all and said, the situation may be odd but we must face it and fight back.

 Dr. Harpreet A De Singh, Executive Director Air India Limited started her talk on the importance of positivity in life. She shared her journey from starting her carrier as a commercial pilot and then sudden transformation toward a managerial role due to medical issues. Dr. Harpreet specially mentioned that we must have courage even during the most difficult phase of life and with courage, we will surely overcome.

Grammy Award winner Mr. Ricky Kej shared his life experiences and his work toward the environment.  Mr. kej said we should not see mistakes in others, and for any change we want in society, we should first implement it on ourselves first.  He motivated all students and said for success in life we all must have passion, practice, and self-change.

The session was interactive and hundreds of students participated in this event, students cleared their quarries with both the guests present.

The session was also attended by Prof. Bhawna Kumar, Vice President RBEF, Mr. A K Choudhary, Brig. Hardeep Singh Dhanny, professor J S Jassi and hundreds of faculty members from all Amity Education Group.

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Six Days Faculty Enrichment Program on 21st-Century Knowledge and Character skills for University Teachers organized by Amity Staff College concluded today at Amity University Haryana

“Strengthen cognitive abilities, integrate education and research and foster innovations in plenty in universities and colleges in India- Experts at the six-day FEP 2021 organized by AUH”

Gurugram: 26^thJune 2021

With the objective of inspiring university and college teachers to empower themselves with the 21st-Century Knowledge and Character skills and to support the major transformation of higher education, the Amity Staff College of Amity University Haryana organized a six days Faculty Enrichment Program from 21^st June to 26^th June 2021. The program was Inaugurated by Dr RA Mashelkar FRS, Founder Chairman National Innovation Council and former Director General of CSIR in the august presence of Hon’ble Chancellor Dr Aseem Chauhan, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Prof PB Sharma, Vice Chancellors of Amity Universities in India, Deans, Heads of Institutions, large number of faculty members and 180 registered participants from various universities and institutions from across the country, that included Allahabad University, BR Ambedkar National Law University, Mahatma Gandhi University Kerala, Mizoram University, IGNOU, Alagappa University Chennai, Carrier Point University Himachal Pradesh, NMDC Tamilnadu,KL University Andhra University, GD Goenka University, KR Mangalam University Haryana, Amity Universities at Noida, Mumbai, Jaipur, Gwalior, Raipur and Gurugram among others

A galaxy of eminent speakers who addressed the participants during the above FEP included Padma Vibhushan Dr RA Mashelkar FRS, Prof Prem Vrat, Hon’ble Chairman IIT Dhanbad and IIT Mandi, distinguished Scientist and National Science Chair Padma Shri Dr S Hasnain, Eminent Educationist India’s Representative to UNESCO Executive Board & Padma Shri Prof J S Rajput,  Secretary General of AIU Dr Pankaj Mittal and Dr Krishen Kumar, former Lead Technologist NASA Johnson Space Centre (JSC), Houston, Texas, USA, Emeritus Professor, Department of Pharmacology Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Rutgers University USA Prof. Debabrata Banerjee, DG-ICSI- International Chamber for Service Industry Dr. Gulshan Sharma, President ASTIF Dr W Selvamurthy, Pro VC Dr Padmakali Banerjee, Dy Pro VC Dr Vikas Madhukar and Dean Research Dr Rajendra Prasad among others.

At a time when major reforms in education are in the offing with the education framework proposed by NEP-2020, it is highly important to encourage and enrich the insights of faculty members to pursue and upgrade their professional acumen not only to ensure the best learning outcomes for their students but also to make them more effective and outcome oriented in their future endeavours. Further, apart from domain knowledge and professional skills and enterprising spirit, the teachers of the new knowledge age are to imbibe the character skills of integrity, truthfulness, compassion, peaceful co-existence, sustainability and resilience, the experts emphasized during their deliberations.

The faculty need to continuously update their domain knowledge in their chosen field of expertise as well as keep themselves updated with the emerging technologies, as also to create new knowledge through engagements in Industry and Society relevant R&D and cause innovations, new product development and give rise to start-ups in the university and college campuses, the experts opined.

Delivering the Inaugural Address Padma Vibhushan Dr RA Mashelkar, Eminent Scientist & Former Director General, CSIRsaid “Teachers are architects of the future of the country. As such they should not to satisfy with incremental improvements or even leapfrogging but take courage to pole-vault to another level of excellence by their exciting and intuitive quest for eminence”. The Teachers of the university and colleges should transform themselves into great mentors and great researchers and innovators empowered with enterprising skills of the new knowledge age.

Eminent Educationist India’s Representative to UNESCO Executive Board & Padma Shri Prof J S Rajput while sharing his rich experience of formulation and implementation of Education policies of 1986 and 1992 invited the universities and colleges in India to shoulder the responsibility of adopting Government Schools in their neighbourhood to strengthen the school education for children of low- and middle-income parents. As good quality school education lays a strong foundation for building both the capabilities and character and is the surest way to improve the quality of life of people. The NEP-2020 has laid a great emphasis on teacher education, as the quality of teachers truly decides the quality and standards of education. Prof Rajput invited the teacher participants from universities and colleges to pursue lifelong learning, practice self-discipline and lead by their example to earn great respect and reverence from the student’s community.

Dr Krishen Kumar, former Lead Technologist NASA Johnson Space Centre (JSC), Houston, Texas, USA while delivering his plenary address said, “in this new age of knowledge and technology revolution the teachers have and important role to prepare students for an exciting journey of lifelong enlightenment and shape them as great human beings who shall work with head, heart and soul for humanity at large”. Technology shall be a great enabler, but the human touch of empathy and compassion can never be replaced by smart and intelligent machines. As such great teachers who fire the imagination of their students and kindle their intuition and innovative faculties shall always be in great demand.

Prof Prem Vrat, Hon’ble Chairman IIT Dhanbad and IIT Mandi and founder Director IIT Roorkee delivered his plenary address on “Effective Implementation Strategies for NEP-2020”. He emphasised the need for interdisciplinary and integrative approach for education and research and invited the teachers to empower themselves with the mindset of a mentor, innovator, researcher and imbibe human values in the student community along with the capabilities to create globally competent professionals.

Secretary General of AIU Dr Pankaj Mittal in her actioned packed address on NEP2020: Empowering the Teachers invited the teachers at the universities and colleges to empower themselves with the digital technologies and support the cause of autonomy and flexibility of learning. Dr Pankaj Mittal opined that the NEP 2020 offers a great opportunity for radical reforms in education from schools to the university levels. She talked about the importance of ABC concept of Lifelong learning, Blended & Hybrid system of learning and also highlighted the benefits of the National Credit Bank idea proposed by the NEP- 2020.

Director General of International Chamber for Service Industry Dr. Gulshan Sharma in his plenary address while highlighted the importance of the service industry in India said that more than 200 million people will be added in the global workforce by India by 2030 and as such great opportunities lie ahead for Indian graduates who pursue their education with interest and passion. He invited the teachers to make education relevant, go back to basics and submit to the call of curiosity, innovativeness, and humility to succeed in life.

President Amity University Science, Technology and Innovation Foundation Dr W Selvamurthy, while delivering his plenary address on “Power of Innovation, Science & Research in 21st century” said that the universities of India should be empowered with the innovation eco-system so that innovation at all levels could be pursued to support the accelerated growth of relevant research, IPR and innovative product development. Dr Selvamurthy called upon the teacher participants to cause incremental, sustaining, disruptive and radical innovations to empower India with breakthrough technologies and accelerated growth of start-ups.

Executive Director of Young Lives, India Dr Renu Singh in her plenary address on “Is our curriculum doing justice with the 21^st Century Skills” invited the teacher participants to seriously revisit both the curriculum design as well as content delivery and develop new tools for assessment of the 21^st Century Skills imparted and imbibed by the learners of modern age.

Pro Vice Chancellor AUH Dr Padmakali Banerjee in her thought-provoking address on “Pedagogical Eclecticism and Learning innovation in the digital age” said that we need to nurture abilities of adoptability and flexibility both in the students and teachers to cope up with the challenges of education tomorrow. The digital age offers immense opportunities to innovate the learning environment.

Prof. Vikas Madhukar, Dy Pro Chancellor and Dean of Management Studies, at AUH invited the participants to support the development of entrepreneurship ecosystem in their institutions and foster enterprising spirit among the students to boost the rise of start-ups and innovation incubation.

Distinguished Bio-Scientist and former Vice President of Indian Nation Science Academy, present Dean of Research Dr Rajendra Prasad while delivering his plenary address on “Healthcare: Where Will We Be in 2050?” said that the future of medicines will be of ‘Precision Medicines’ that will be tailored to the needs of an individual to combat the disease and metabolic disorder. While stressing that   genetic similarity between human and a human   is 99.9% nobody in world has similar DNA of you.  This diversity is possible because of millions of differences in the alphabets of DNA and epigenetics changes influence by the environmental factors.  The old idea that genes are ‘set in tone’ has been disproven. Nature vs Nurture is no longer a debate but a reality. Giving a hope for good health and long life for all and even mastery over death by 2050, Prof Prasad shared the mind-boggling advances taking place in the field of life sciences research and invited the teachers to enjoy the excitement of research in their own domain areas and carry this excitement to the classrooms.

In her plenary address on Mental health: A fundamental component of human development, Prof. Surinder Jaswal, Deputy Director (Research) at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai said that “there is no health without mental health” and as such a greater attention is required to develop emotional maturity and mental health of the students. Prof Jaswal further inspired the teachers to reach out to the community along with their students to spread awareness about mental health in the community.

Dr Gunjan M. Sanjeev. Vice President (Amity Education Group) & Director – International Affairs, delivered her address on “Internationalization in Higher Education” and said that great opportunities for internationalization at home and maximizing the global connect are now available as power of connectivity has created a highly enriched environment for global cooperation in education and research.  Dr Gunjan also shared the strategic framework for strengthening internationalization in universities in India.

In his words of wisdom Dr. Aseem Chauhan, Hon’ble Chancellor, Amity University Haryana said, “Teachers have to play a pivotal role   as leaders in their domain areas and should work as mentors. For this they need to regularly upgrade their knowledge base as well as technology Skills. Much of this upgradation should be self-motivated. Teachers should have the capabilities to adopt advanced technologies and should have the willingness to experiment with innovative technologies to improve learning outcomes. National education policy has provided a great opportunity for globalization and growth and is important to be implemented. University rankings would greatly improve by maximizing the university outcome in respect of quality of education, research publications and a more effective translation of research into innovations and new product developments said Hon’ble Chancellor Dr Aseem Chauhan.

Delivering the valedictory address Dr Rakesh Bhatnagar, former Vice Chancellor BHU and currently Vice Chancellor Amity University Rajasthan said that “We teachers must enjoy our profession then only we can give our best to the noble profession of teaching and research. We need also to promote out of box thinking in our teachers as well as students and engage in learning beyond classrooms in collaborative learning, collaborative research and cause an upsurge of innovation and new product developments to empower India with accelerated growth of science and technologies of the new age of knowledge”.

Prof. C.S. Sharma, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi talked upon the MOOCs as life long learning opportunities. Prof. C.S Sharma focused on life-long learning and breaking down various barriers which distract us from learning. This can be overcome by training which requires a lot of commitment. MOOCs help us overcome normal learning process. Prof Sharma emphasized that there is need to create alternatives while creating MOOCs otherwise the MOOC is of no use. Overall, Prof. C.S. Sharma, beautifully blended psychology and study of MOOCs together which gave us valuable information.

Dr. Renu Malaviya, Associate Professor, Department of Education, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi while delivering her talk on “Higher Education Pedagogy, Student-Centered Teaching-learning Processes.” emphasized on the importance of being ‘teachers of today’ who are energized and true to their profession. These days’ resources are available and we should treat them as the assets in our hands. Dr Malaviya said that teachers are the agents of change and student centric education should be encouraged wherein, networking, team work, support, and group learning takes place.

Prof. Debabreta Banerjee, Emirutus Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers University, USA. while delivering his talk on “Importance of critical thinking and effective communication for teachers” stated that the workshop is the next step in terms of enriching faculty members in terms of how they would be able to impart knowledge, their research, their education, their experience to the students who are actually the flag bearers of future. They are here today but they are going to lead the charge in terms of taking the nation forward tomorrow. Prof. Banerjee mandate was to talk about communication skills, how to improve them, how to be clear, how to be concise, and how to convince both in the oral part of the communication, as well, as in the written part, as both are equally important. Prof Banerjee also touched upon the subject of critical thinking, which in higher education is probably the most important aspect of human research.

Addressing the valedictory function Prof P B Sharma, Vice-Chancellor, Amity University Haryana said, “the new normal of higher education necessitates a thorough revisit of education and research ecosystem in universities and colleges in India to create a great Advantage India in higher education and support the Society and Nation’s development on pathways of inclusive growth and nurturing of human excellence”. Prof Sharma expressed his delight at the august presence of great many eminent educationist who addressed the participants during the Six Days FEP organized by Amity Staff College under the caring patronage of Hon’ble Founder President, Amity Education Group Dr Ashok K Chauhan and visionary leadership of Hon’ble Chancellor Dr Aseem Chauhan. Prof Sharma specially acknowledged the live interactions of the participants and highly intuitive questions raised by them in the chat box as well as in the question answer session for each plenary session. Prof Sharma warmly appreciated the excellent coordination and execution of the FEP by Director Amity Staff College Rear Admiral KK Pandey and Program Director Dr Sanjna Vij.

Expressing their profound happiness in participating the highly insightful FEP at AUH, the participants shared their online feedback and also expressed their profound appreciation of Amity University Haryana for organizing such an impactful Faculty Enrichment Program.

Dr Sanjna Vij, Program Director, Academic Staff College, AUH said that the Staff College is deeply devoted to empowering teachers and Sr Executives of the Universities and Colleges in India with vision and skills of 21^st century to nurture education and research excellence in higher education. Rear Admiral KK Pandey (Retd.), HR Director, AUH whilst delivering the Vote of Thanks, highlighted that in a rapidly changing world scenario, the role of Teachers assumes utmost importance. He expressed his profound delight at the level of sincerity and keenness to participate in the deliberations by the faculty participants who closely interacted with the eminent speakers during the sixday Faculty Enrichment Program.

Excellent support for the program was provided by the Amity IT Team headed by Dr JS Sodhi and Shri Sandeep Singh, Dy OSD to VC AUH.

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Recognizing the importance of world quality medical services and the competence with which the healthcare allied services and hospitals in India have successfully met the challenge of Covid-19 pandemic by keeping the recovery rate at the highest  in the world, at a glittering ceremony today Amity University Haryana conferred the Honorary doctorate upon Shri Abhay Soi, the Chairman and Managing Director Max Healthcare Institute for his exemplary accomplishments in the field of Healthcare services and for his unmatched leadership acumen for business restructuring.

Presiding over the Virtual Convocation, the Chancellor of Amity University Haryana Dr Aseem Chauhan  said that the vision of the Founding Father of Amity to  make India a Knowledge Superpower by providing world quality education and research in various States of India and in great many countries abroad has largely been fulfilled. Amity lays a great emphasis on academia industry partnership for accelerated growth of high-quality R&D and for industry and society relevant innovations.  He expressed his immense happiness in having Shri Soi at today’s special convocation that is organized to celebrate his eminence.

Responding to the honour Shri Abhay Soi   said, he considers it a matter of high honour to receive the honorary doctorate from Amity University which is engaged in cutting edge research and innovations that we hold close to our hearts in Max Institute.He further added that India has emerged as a global destination for affordable world quality healthcare covering almost all super-specialties. During Covid-19 pandemic too we have demonstrated India’s high resilience and its preparedness to handle a deadly virus, keeping one of the highest recovery rates in world. But we still have a long way to go. We must further strengthen our healthcare infrastructure and R&D base now that we have understood the importance of healthcare in securing a healthy society. As we go forward, it would be important for us to focus on 5Ts,Technology, Talent, Tradition, Trade and Tourism in order to make India a world power in education and healthcare, Shri Soi added.

The President of RBEF and Chancellor Amity University Uttar Pradesh Dr Atul Chauhan while congratulating Shri Abhay Soi for his most outstanding contributions to the Health Care sector said  “Shri Abhay is one such leader who always believes that  a true leader is one who is always with his team, more so during the highly testing times such as during the Covid-19 pandemic”.

The glittering ceremony was attended by very many eminent scientists, Vice Chancellors of Amity University campuses, Deans, Heads of the institutions, members of the faculty, officers of Amity and great many inspired minds of students. Dr AK Nagpal, Chairman Amity Medical Foundation, eminent Surgeon Dr Pradeep Choubey and Trustees of RBEF were among those who graced the ceremony.

The Founder President of Amity Education Group Dr Ashok K Chauhan congratulated Shri Abhay Soi for accepting the honour of the Honorary Doctorate and said that “Amity is deeply committed to further strengthen the frontal areas of  medical research by creating an environment of integration of medical sciences with the multidisciplinary engineering and integrative sciences R&D  that is currently being nurtured in Amity Universities in India and in its campuses abroad”.

The President of Amity Science Technology and Innovation Foundation, ASTIF, Dr W Selvamurthy presented highlights of front area R&D in the areas of Life Sciences and Biomedical research in Amity University and hoped that the likely partnership in future with Max Healthcare institute shall accelerate further the advancement of cutting edge research in medical sciences.

Presenting the university report at the Special Convocation, Vice Chancellor of AUH Prof PB Sharma said “Our mission at Amity University Gurugram includes, fostering academic innovations, creating  an environment of student centric learning, engage our students in creative research and innovations  and promoting growth of the university with global quality standards. Towards this end, we have strengthened our research infrastructure and established a strong connect with industry and collaborative ties with leading world class universities”.

Considering the importance of integration of physical sciences, life sciences and engineering with medical sciences, at Amity University Gurugram we have established high impact research clusters to nurture super-specialty of health sciences. In this respect we have a vibrant culture of integrative sciences in our research clusters of Cancer Biology, Lipidomics, Data Sciences and Health informatics, Computational Biology, Stem Cell research, Nano Science and Technology, Environmental and Human Health, Vision Science and Optometry and Biomedical Engineering. I am delighted to report that in all these areas we have world class scientists and have created world class research infrastructure, Prof Sharma added.

Dr Vikas Madhukar, Dy Director ABS Coordinated the Special Virtual Convocation and was supported by Dr Monika Yadav and Dr Geetika Agrawal for which excellent IT support was provided by Dr JS Sodhi and his team.

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