SGRF organizes sixth edition of India’s largest genomics conference

Cochin, October 3, 2016: SciGenom Research Foundation today inaugurated their sixth annual international conference titled “NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT)” from October 3rd – 5th, 2016 in Cochin, India.

Dr.Oommen.V.Oommen, Chairman, Kerala State Biodiversity Board, India was the Chief Guest for the conference along with Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Executive Vice Chairman, Infosys India who was the Guest of Honour and shared learning’s from his experience.

This year, the co-hosts for the NGBT meeting include Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Biology Department), Mumbai, India; The Centre for the Commercialization of Antibodies and Biologics (CCAB) and The Toronto Recombinant Antibody Centre (TRAC), Toronto, Canada; Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), Bengaluru, India and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, India.

Sam Santhosh, Promoter of SGRF (SciGenom Research Foundation), a non-profit organization with the objective of spreading scientific education in the country emphasized the importance of Next Generation Sequencing Genomics to the participants at the conference.

“This conference is an ideal platform to promote scientific research and innovation” observed Dr Sekar Seshagiri, Conference Chair “This year’s conference will feature drug discovery as a major theme and encompasses various key note lecturers with a spectrum of expertise from Genomics to cancer immunotherapy, to pant genomics and cancer signalling”.

This is the sixth edition of the international conference, which will feature cutting-edge development in Genomics.

The conference will further feature exciting developments in Medical Genomics, signalling Genomics and their applications in life sciences. The three-day program will have speakers from renowned research institutes from across the globe. Some of the distinguished speakers at the meeting include Dr Aakrosh Ratan, Uni. of Virginia, USA., Dr. Nandula Raghuram, GGS Indraprastha Uni., India, Dr. Ratna Dua Puri, SGRH, India, Dr. Analabha Basu, NIBMG, India, Dr. VB Reddy, AgriGenome, India, Dr. Ravi Gupta, MedGenome, India, Dr. Andrew Peterson, Sr. Director, Genentech Inc., USA,