Participation in Meetings / Conference / Symposia:

Dr.MVR Reddy has attended FAIMER Fellowship contact programme at Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Mumbai during June 6^th  to 13^th  2011.

Short Term Projects:

• Ms. Vidya W. Bhomale pursuing M.Sc. Biotechnology at Ranibai Agnihotri Institute of Computer Science & Information Technology (RAICSIT), Wardha, carried out her Dissertation work entitled ‘Structural Comparison of E6 and E7 Proteins of Different Strains of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) using Bioinformatics Tools’.

• Ms. Gunwanti P. Joshi pursuing M.Sc. Biotechnology at RAICSIT, Wardha, carried out her Dissertation work entitled ‘Analysis of filarial IgG subclass in different groups of patients against BmGST’.   

 Research Publications:

• A Majumdar, Gauri Wankhade, Pranita Kamble, Deepti Joshi, Harinath BC. A sensitive and specific ES-31 Antigen detection based fluorometric assay for confirmation of M.tb in cell culture.Indian J of Experimental Biology, April 2011;49:304-306.

• Lingaraja Jena, Gauri Wankhade, Satish Kumar, Bhaskar Chinnaiah Harinath  MTB-PCDB: Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteome comparison database. Bioinformation 6(3):131-133 (2011).

Arogyadham

• Personality Development camp for Children was organized at Arogyadham for third time during May 2, May 14, 2011. This camp was aimed to improve their intellectual, physical, emotional, social development and to bring the awareness and importance of Naturopathy, Yoga and Life Style. About 32  students / children from different schools namely Kasturba Vidya Mandir, Sevagram, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bhugaon, School of Scholars, Wardha etc. took part and benefited by different activities such as Concentration techniques,  Yogasana, Pyramid Meditation, tips on balance life style, Dance, Games (indoor & outdoor), Art & Crafts work with paper and Mud.

Daily natural healthy nutritious snacks and Juices were provided. Participation certificates and gifts were provided to all. Dr Amrish Saxena, Asst Prof., Dept. of Medicine, MGIMS, Dr. Ranjana, Asst. Prof. Dept of Community Medicine, MGIMS, Dr. T. Karthickeyan, Naturopathy and Yoga Specialist, Mrs. Pooja Phohane, Ms. Sujata Deshmukh, and Mr. Raju were  actively involved in making the camp successful.

HERBAL GARDEN

Work of the wasteland development of about 220 acres behind Medical Institute was started on October 2^nd 2002 and developed into Arogyadham with Herbal Garden (Aonla – Medicinal plants), with the help of Jain Charities through JISL. Water is brought by a 5-6 Km pipeline from Pawnar river. Presently medicinal plants such as Aonla (22000), Ritha (50), Karanj (103), Neem (292) in addition to Ashoka (155), Custard apple (105) plants are grown.

The intercrops in between Aonla plants will help in prevention of growth of weeds and thus easy maintenance of Aonla medicinal plants. Premansoon cotton and onion seeds are taken as intercrops in between Aonla plants.