Amrita BioQuest 2013 – International Conference on Biotechnology for Innovative Applications

BIOQUEST 2013 provided an ideal forum to discuss exciting and emerging multidisciplinary themes related to the use of biotechnology in addressing pertinent societal needs. The conference will focus on the ways in which research areas such as translational medicine, nanotechnology, neuroscience,

Two Pre-Conference workshops were hosted at the Health Sciences Campus of Amrita University at Kochi on August 10th and two other workshops were hosted during the conference at Amritapuri Campus. The pre-conference workshops on Biotechnology and Translational Medicine provided an ideal forum

Ten Talks was a Ph.D. symposium selecting 10 novel papers from current PhD students. The goal of the “Ten Talks” event was to highlight their work in front of other academics than their supervisors. They were be able to present their

Superlative organization and hospitality. Have been touched by the warmth and thoughtfulness of the whole team, and highly impressed with the tremendous academic infrastructure and avenues of work being pursued. Many thanks for an eye opening experience

Rohit Manchanda, Ph.D.
Professor Biomedical Engineering Group, IIT-Bombay, India
This was an excellent meeting both from a scientific perspective. Meeting new people, learning about all the great things going on at Amrita. Thank you

Karen A. McDonald, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies University of California at Davis
I am very impressed by the high level of the conference by the hospitality of the staff and by social events. Thank you for your work

Andrey Panteleyev, Ph.D.
Vice Chair Division of Molecular Biology, NBICS Centre-Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
Excellent hospitality, food coordination, sessions on time. Overall great first time experience!

Aditi Chatterjee, Ph.D.
Faculty Scientist Institute of Bioinformatics, Bengaluru, India
Wonderful hospitality. Lots of smiling faces is a real pleasure to see. Wish I could visit here often. Not to forget the food was great. Thanks.

Srinivasan Rajgopal, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist & Head Bio IT R&D TCS Innovation Labs, India
Wow! Good pupils! Great programme. Excellent arrangement for the meeting

K. P. Mohanakumar, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist Cell Biology & Physiology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata
Very good conference. Great volunteers. Really fortunate to be blessed by Amma.

R. Manjunath, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Dept of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
What can one say except that it is enlightening filled with peace and Harmony. Thanks for providing this opportunity!

Srinivas Pentyala, Ph.D.
Director of Translational Research Stony Brook Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Both science and humanity together; The ideal world!

Hideaki Nagase, Ph.D
Professor Emeritus Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology-Centre for Degenerative Diseases, University of Oxford, UK
Truly fantastic conference, superbly organized best hospitality and intellectually stimulating. Above all inspired by Mata Amritanandamayi .What else can one hope for!!!

Ajay Shah, Ph.D.
Director Research Informatics, City of Hope , CA, USA
I have been here earlier, but I think I missed many parts of Amrita. What a great experience to visit different departments doing such creative things as virtual labs. A truly superbly organized conference as well. Congratulations and keep up the great work!

Akhilesh Pandey, Ph.D.
Professor Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Wonderful conference! Thank you for all your hard work and kind hospitality. When‘s the next one?

Jeff Perry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor University of California, Riverside
Very well planned and organized BioQuest conference .The students are very impressive full of enthusiasm eager to learn .The campus is very impressive. We had a wonderful time!

Tarun B. Patel, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair of Pharmacology Loyola University, Chicago, USA
An excellent institution, sober and polite students and excellent conference. I thoroughly enjoyed the scientific programme and warm hospitality

Ashok Pandey, Ph.D.
Scientist F & Head National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology
Great meeting. Very interactive. Wonderful to see the societal impact!

Suresh Subramani, Ph.D.
Vice-Chancellor(Academic Affairs) University of California San Diego, USA
It is very exciting visit and the introduction with scientific community and Mata Amritanandamayi was great!

Sneh Anand, Ph.D.
Professor Center for Biomedical Engineering, IIT-Delhi, India
Outstanding, world class conference, for the first time ever I saw spirituality and science meet. Spirituality, love and compassion here are important like in Universe. Through this conference I witnessed the divine influence

Sudhir Sahasrabudhe, Ph.D.
CEO, Rines Therapeutics Research Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah, USA
This has been an amazing experience for me. Thank everyone at Amrita for working hard to make this a great success!

Srisairam Achuthan, Ph.D.
Senior Scientific Programmer Research Informatics Division, Department of Information Sciences, City of Hope, CA, USA
Outstanding, well planned and well organized conference. Enthusiasm of staff and students were unparalleled. Extremely friendly and helpful hosts. Swamiji’s talk was very good. His openness and spontaneity manifested in the speech. Educational sessions,interdisciplinary aspect and focus make this conference very unique.

Lalitha Subramanian, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer & VP Services at Scienomics, USA
A very well thought out conference. Good interaction with students and faculty, Nice location and looking forward to further conference.

Kal Ramnarayan, Ph.D.
Co-founder President & Chief Scientific Officer Sapient Discovery, San Diego, CA, USA
I really appreciate the warm hearty welcome and organization feeling very much valued and taken care of. The programme was amazing with a very good mixture of topics, social events and of course involvement of Amma herself. Thank you for allowing me to come. God bless you!

Bodo Eickhoff, Ph.D.
Senior Vice-President Head of Sales and Marketing for Roche Applied Science, Germany
Wonderful and inspiring visit in all ways and the hospitality here is truly unique

Gaute Einevoll, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics Department of Mathematical Sciences & Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)
A very pleasant experience. Love the cultural events and getting to hear from Amma. Also a good program and well organized.

Colin Barrow, Ph.D.
Chair in Biotechnology School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Australia
The science, the people, the vision, the mission and Amma-Magical and Wonderful!

Michelle Hermiston, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics University of California San Francisco, USA
It is wonderful to be back at Amrita. The meeting has been a great learning experience for me.

Bharat B. Chattoo, Ph.D.
Professor Faculty of Science M.S.University of Baroda, India
A truly impressive conference in terms of organization and speakers. Hope to be back in two years

Tobias Preckel, Ph.D.
Life Science Center Manager Agilent Technologies, Germany
A very fabulous and rewarding five days in Kochi and Amritapuri. Congrats. Intellectually brilliant; Gave a great opportunity to network, interact and learn. Thank you!

M. D. Nair, Ph.D.
Former Vice-President SPIC Pharmaceuticals, Tamil Nadu, India
Good arrangement, and wonderful volunteers Thank you!

K. Satyamoorthy, Ph.D.
Director Life Sciences Centre, Manipal University, India
Great Conference. Wonderful hospitality. Had a very good time. Look forward to visiting again

S. Ramaswamy, Ph.D.
CEO of c-CAMP, Dean inStem, NCBS, Bangalore, India