Free National Webinar on Booming Career Opportunities in Science

KOCHI:
The Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, located in the Kochi Campus of Amrita University, is organizing a free National Webinar on ‘Career Opportunities in Science in the Post-Covid Era’ on 11th July, Sunday from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

The webinar will be led by Dr. Shanti Kumar V Nair, Director – Amrita Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine and Dean – Reasearch, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. The event will also include keynote sessions by Dr. Sonia Basu (Vice President – Business, Ketto), Smt. Rekha Menon (Popular Anchor & Communications Professional), Dr. Sisini Sasidharan (Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford), Dr Chaitanya Koduri (Director, International Public Policy at US Pharmacopeia, USA), Dr. John Joseph (Fulbright Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Medical School) and Dr. Krishna Radhakrishnan (Medical Affairs Manager at GlaxoSmithKline, Singapore). 

Admission to the webinar is for those who register in advance. Registration will be free and certificates will be issued to the participants. For registration: https:/forms.office.com/r/fpZr1fwqV4

Seemati Group CEO and entrepreneur Beena Kannan, Play back singer G Venugopal, actress Vidhya Unni and several other celebrities will take part in the launch of the educational awareness hashtag campaign ‘Stop Following the Crowd’ organised in association with the National Webinar. Producer Prashobh Krishna, Actors Kailash, Tini Tom and Govind Padmasuriya, among others, have come out in support of the hashtag campaign. This hashtag campaign is aimed at parents and students. “The hashtag campaign aims to create social awareness among parents and children to not box themselves into a limited number of career choices from a very young age”, Dr. Shantikumar V. Nair said.