Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s first woman director general N. Kalaiselvi is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the ‘Women Scientists Conclave: Self Reliance, Challenges and Future’ at the IICT auditorium on Monday. DRDO DG Suma Varughese will deliver the Dr.K.V. Raghavan Memorial Lecture.
The seminar is being jointly organised by the National Academy of Sciences, India (Hyderabad Chapter) and the Academy for Science, Technology, and Communication (ASTC).
Governor Tamilisai Soundarajan will be the chief guest for the event where Tanusri Sinha-Dasgupta of S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences will deliver a lecture on ‘Materials by computation, challenges and opportunities. Besides, University of Hyderabad’s Geeta Vemuganti will discuss stem cells in eye research and DBT-Centre for DNA Finger Printing & Diagnostics’ Sangita will talk on ’Tuberculosis and immunological therapy’.
