Renowned biomedical engineer and IIT Kharagpur professor Sujoy Guha
said here on Friday that with the help of nanotechnology drugs required
for a disease can be developed inside the human body from the raw
materials available in the body itself. Such drugs would be more
acceptable to body and the chances of curing the disease would increase
manifold, he said.
Inaugurating a two-day national
seminar on 'Role of nanotechnology in the development of Bihar'
organized by Aryabhatta National Knowledge University (AKU) at Rabindra
Bhavan here, Guha said this system of producing drugs inside human
bodies has been developed in India and it has also been patented. Other
countries were now having a trial of this mechanism. He observed that
nanotechnology can also be applied in the site-specific use of nutrients
and pesticides in plants, thus boosting agricultural production and
conserving natural environment.
He further said contraceptives
developed with the help of nanotechnology could be more popular as their
use can also prevent benign prostrate as well as baldness in males.
AKU vice-chancellor S N Guha said the state government has accepted the
university's proposal for setting up a centre of nanotechnology in the
university and sanctioned necessary funds for the purpose. The
Aryabhatta Centre for Nanoscience and Technology would not only impart
quality teaching to MSc and PhD students but also develop an
institution-industry interface. Besides, it would organize entrepreneurship
development programme and short-term training programmes in the area of
nanotechnology to produce skilled human resource and generate
self-employment in the state, the VC added.
State higher education
director Sita Ram Singh said the government was committed to improving
the quality of higher education in the state. As many as 52 colleges had
already been selected for developing them as "centres of excellence"
and they were being provided with all the required infrastructural
facilities.
Eminent scientists drawn from different parts of
the country, including Chandra Prakash from DRDO, New Delhi, A C Pandey
from Allahabad University, Alok Dhawan from Ahmedabad and Jitendra Kumar
Singh from Mahavir Cancer Sansthan spoke on different aspects of nanotechnology and pleaded for its application in the economic development of Bihar. AKU registrar N K Singh proposed a vote of thanks.
source:TOI
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