Malaria is highly endemic and persists throughout the year in south western region of India. A substantial portion of these regions are in Karnataka that receives high rainfall harboring high vector density. Mangaluru, a south western coastal city in Dakshina Kannada is considered as holoendemic region for malaria. Plasmodium falciparum is known to cause severe malarial infections worldwide; however the long benign considered Plasmodium vivax was also reported to cause severe and fatal clinical complications. In the study region of the project –Mangaluru, P. vivax predominates with significant levels of P. falciparum and/or mixed (P. falciparum and P.vivax) infections.
K. S. Hegde Medical Academy has been relentlessly providing healthcare services in and around Mangaluru. The National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (an agency of the US Department of Health & Human Service) and supports malaria research & development. To understand the different aspects of malaria in Mangaluru, a National Institutes of Health project between Penn State University, USA and KSHEMA, entitled “Malaria research training in South India” was initiated. The overall goal of the project is to advance the knowledge on P.vivax malaria in southwestern India (Mangaluru) by research efforts, to understand the epidemiological, pathophysiological and immunological basis, emerging drug resistance and impact during pregnancy during P. vivax malarial infections.
As a part of this project, a national symposium on “Recent advances in malarial research” was conducted on 24th February, 2018 by K.S Hegde Medical Academy, a constituent college of Nitte (Deemed to be University) in association with the National Institutes of Health and Penn State University, USA. The Chief guest, Prof. Dr. D. Channe Gowda, Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Penn State University, USA inaugurated the symposium. The event saw the active participation of Indian project investigators, Dr. S.K.Ghosh, NIMR, Bangalore; Dr. S.N.Tiwari, NIMR, Bangalore; Dr. Rajeshwara Achur (Co-PI), Chairman, Dept. of Biochemistry, Kuvempu University, Shimoga; Dr. Suchetha Kumari N, (Co-PI), Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, KSHEMA and the Ph.D students involved in this project. Dr. Sudhindra Rao.M, Organizing Secretary welcomed the gathering and the Vote of thanks was delivered by Dr. Tanmay Bhat.
During the symposium, 6 eminent speakers delivered lectures on various topics in malaria. Over 300 delegates comprising of physicians from rural and urban areas, healthcare professionals, laboratory technicians, research scholars, undergraduate & postgraduate students attended the symposium. Physicians from in and around Mangaluru participated in the panel discussion & shared their knowledge and experiences with the research fraternity. This session was moderated by Dr. Tanmay Bhat. Several researchers and students participated in the oral and poster competitions and a skit was performed by the UG students from KSHEMA.
Dr. Suchetha Kumari N, Joint Organizing Secretary delivered the Vote of thanks at the Valedictory function. The symposium focused on some frontline areas like drug resistance to malaria, placental malaria, immunology and pathophysiology, entomology, epidemiology and molecular biology of plasmodium infections.
K. S. Hegde Medical Academy has been relentlessly providing healthcare services in and around Mangaluru. The National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (an agency of the US Department of Health & Human Service) and supports malaria research & development. To understand the different aspects of malaria in Mangaluru, a National Institutes of Health project between Penn State University, USA and KSHEMA, entitled “Malaria research training in South India” was initiated. The overall goal of the project is to advance the knowledge on P.vivax malaria in southwestern India (Mangaluru) by research efforts, to understand the epidemiological, pathophysiological and immunological basis, emerging drug resistance and impact during pregnancy during P. vivax malarial infections.
As a part of this project, a national symposium on “Recent advances in malarial research” was conducted on 24th February, 2018 by K.S Hegde Medical Academy, a constituent college of Nitte (Deemed to be University) in association with the National Institutes of Health and Penn State University, USA. The Chief guest, Prof. Dr. D. Channe Gowda, Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Penn State University, USA inaugurated the symposium. The event saw the active participation of Indian project investigators, Dr. S.K.Ghosh, NIMR, Bangalore; Dr. S.N.Tiwari, NIMR, Bangalore; Dr. Rajeshwara Achur (Co-PI), Chairman, Dept. of Biochemistry, Kuvempu University, Shimoga; Dr. Suchetha Kumari N, (Co-PI), Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, KSHEMA and the Ph.D students involved in this project. Dr. Sudhindra Rao.M, Organizing Secretary welcomed the gathering and the Vote of thanks was delivered by Dr. Tanmay Bhat.
During the symposium, 6 eminent speakers delivered lectures on various topics in malaria. Over 300 delegates comprising of physicians from rural and urban areas, healthcare professionals, laboratory technicians, research scholars, undergraduate & postgraduate students attended the symposium. Physicians from in and around Mangaluru participated in the panel discussion & shared their knowledge and experiences with the research fraternity. This session was moderated by Dr. Tanmay Bhat. Several researchers and students participated in the oral and poster competitions and a skit was performed by the UG students from KSHEMA.
Dr. Suchetha Kumari N, Joint Organizing Secretary delivered the Vote of thanks at the Valedictory function. The symposium focused on some frontline areas like drug resistance to malaria, placental malaria, immunology and pathophysiology, entomology, epidemiology and molecular biology of plasmodium infections.
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