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UAV to Monitor air quality

St. John's PRC- Pfizer Research Award

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Dr. Kaniska Das wins the St. John's PRC- Pfizer Research Award -2010

IAEA Collaborating Centre in Nutrition Inaugurated in St. John's Research Institute

This week the IAEA formalises its relationship with the St. John´s Research Institute (SJRI) in Bangalore, India, designating it one of the IAEA´s select collaborating centres worldwide.

SJRI has been working with the IAEA´s Nutrition and Health-Related Environmental Studies Section since 1988, and is well networked in India as well as internationally.

The longstanding relationship between the IAEA and the SJRI has provided a number of benefits to both parties. For example, the SJRI analyses samples for Asian and African Member States, provides lecturers for the IAEA ´s courses on stable isotope technique, and trains research fellows from Member States worldwide.

News Article – THE HINDU, 28th MAY 2010

The Dean Louis Monteiro Research Prize – 2008
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Inauguration of the Biosafety Level 3 Facility at St. John's Research Institute

St. John's Research Institute has showcased its commitment to safety in handling hazardous specimens by installing a Biosafety level 3 facility. This state-of-the-art facility was inaugurated by Most Reverend Bishop Percival Fernandes on 18th June 2009 at the Bio-repository Building of the Institute. The facility will be very useful in handling biological samples from patients suspected to have an infection which is life-threatening and capable of spreading rapidly in ordinary laboratory environments - something which would otherwise endanger staff working in the laboratory and other parts of the institute. A typical example for this would be Tuberculosis - present in significant numbers in our population - and seldom handled with the care required for its control. Questionable causes for diseases also need to be handled with such care until certainty regarding the infectious agent is achieved. This facility has been setup with care to comply with all the regulations outlined in the International guidelines of Biosafety published by the CDC, Atlanta, USA as well as International engineering standards. St. John's Research Institute has thus set the benchmark for such a facility in a country where other similar facilities, despite the enormous need, would number just under ten.

Congratulation Division of Clinical Trials! - Polypill paper published in Nature

We congratulate the Clinical Trial Division whose paper titled "The need to test the theories behind the Polypill:rationale behind the Indian Polycap Study" has been published in Nature.

The paper is available at:
http://www.nature.com/ncpcardio/journal/v6/n2/full/ncpcardio1438.html