Dr. Rupjyoti Talukdar was awarded Intermediate Fellowship of the Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance to conduct research on “Pathogenesis of Human Acute Pancreatitis”

Asian Healthcare Foundation will be conducting Indo-US bilateral workshop on ”Pancreatic Islets: From Isolation to Transplantation” in collaboration with Schulze Diabetes Institute of the University of Minnesota, USA during September 14-15, 2012

The following researchers were awarded various prizes at the 56th Annual Meeting of Indian Society of  Gastroenterologists, Coimbatore, November 18-22, 2011.

Dr. M. Sasikala: Awarded First Prize for the presentation entitled “Implications of a novel immunoisolatory  device-Theracyte in clinical islet cell transplantation” at Oral plenary session of ISGCON 2011

Dr. Siva Prasad: Awarded Special Prize for the presentation of the poster entitled “A high frequency of favorable  genotype of interleukin-28B gene polymorphism in India” at the INASL session of ISGCON-2011

Mr. V. V. Krishna: Awarded Second Prize for the presentation of the poster entitled “Differentitation of  hepatocytes from human induced pluripotent stem cells using limited growth factors: a simple method” at the  INASL session of ISGCON-2011

Ms. G. Veena: Awarded Special Prize for the presentation of the poster entitled “Expression profile of human  cytosine methyl transferase genes in hepatitis B virus infection” at the INASL session of ISGCON-2011