Bioinformatics Institute of India conducted first of its kind a 2 - day Management Development program in Bioinformatics at Noida. This kind of program was conducted for the first time in NCR region.

Prof. S.P. Mishra Vice Chancellor Dev Sanskriti, Hardwar inaugurated the program. The faculty for the program was drawn from academic institutions like Bioinformatics Institute of India, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Punjab University Chandigarh, IBM Research Ltd Delhi, Mascon Life Sciences Delhi and Telcon Ltd. This well attended conference had participants from academic/research organizations like ICMR, AIIMS, Indian Institute of Biologicals etc, Pharmaceutical companies like Ranbaxy, Zydus Cadilla, software companies like HCL Perot Systems etc

The following was the detail of Program sessions

The program provided a complete overview of Bioinformatics as a discipline. It started with the Introduction to Bioinformatics, delivered by Prof. I. S. Dua from Punjab University, Chandigarh. Central Dogma of Biology which is the base to the Bioinformatics science was discussed by Prof. R. P Singh, Head of the Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology. It followed lectures by Prof. Pramod Wangikar of IIT Bombay on Biological Data, Gene Finding and Sequence Analysis. Dr. Biplav Srivastava of IBM Research Ltd explained the concept of Biological databases and reasons for popularity of Federated Databases. Dr Animesh from Mascon Life Sciences took a lecture on IT and Bioinformatics. This was followed by a talk on Bioinformatics scenario by Mr. V. Shukla, Telcon Europe Ltd. The concluding talk was on Bioinformatics Education by Mr. R K Mehrotra.

Vijay S. Shukla, Director Business Development and Incharge for the MDP program commented-" We received very encouraging feedback from the participants. A few have requested us to conduct in-house training programs for their companies.We will soon be conducting similar programs in other Metro cities."

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Neena Lodha, a Biochemistry specialist with a 2 year training in computers commented the following - "I am leaving for New York in the coming fall. I hope to build a successful bioinformatics career in USA. Attending this program is a significant step in achieving my objectives."

Dr Mukul R Jain, Deputy General Manager, Zydus Cadilla said- "This program has got good utility for the Pharma professionals."

Jaydeep Yeole, a participant from Pune commented - "Many participants from Pune could not attend because of distances."