STUDENTS TO DO RESEARCH AT CCMB
Hyderabad, May 9: The CSIRCCMB launched Medical Student Research Training Programme (MedSRT) at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) here on Tuesday.
Speaking after inaugurating the training programme, CCMB director Dr Rakesh Kumar Mishra said that research on human health was the need of the hour.
“This training helps in providing solutions to the health problems and hands-on training to the young medical students. It is designed to address the gap on the current medical curriculum and to ensure that aspiring clinicians appraised of the latest basic research methodologies and how they can be applied in clinical problems,” he said.
Dr Mishra said that the programme includes lectures and hands-on training on 5 research areas: Bioinforma-tics, DNA and RNA based Techniques, Cell biology, Proteins and Immunological Techniq-ues.
“The state of the art infrastructure and expertise of CCMB for conducting research in modern biology further enhances quality of this program,” he said.
The director also said that MedSRT is not only a key addition to the academic and skill development activities of CCMB, but is one of the first of programs of its kind in the country.
The CCMB expects that this exposure to cutting edge research questions, techniques and hypothesis-testing will excite medical students to opt for a clinical research career, so that clinically derived scientific problems can be addressed, and become a major impetus for the translation of basic science towards unmet medical needs. Dr. Rakesh Kumar has released Training Modules on this occasion.
Speaking on the occasion, Gandhi Medical College viceprincipal Sravan Kumar said 21 medical students were participating in this skill development programme.
THE CCMB expects that this exposure to cutting edge research questions, techniques and hypothesis-testing will excite medical students to opt for a clinical research career, so that clinically derived scientific problems can be addressed, and become a major impetus for the translation of basic science towards unmet medical needs.