On 17th January 2008 under joint auspices of BBrains Development Society and Department of Science & Technology, one day Indo Swedish programme was held in PMCH Auditorium in which around 200 participants of various institutes of Bihar participated in the serious discussion.

The main aim of this program was to have interaction and exchange of knowledge with local scientists and entrepreneurs of Bihar, the eastern state of India and explore the possibility of building a forum for regular interaction of scientists and entrepreneurs of both the countries Scientist, entrepreneurs, professors and students of all areas of science and technology are being invited to attend this conference.

Inaugural Session:
The program was started with welcome speech by Dr. R.K.P Singh, Principal PMCH. He thanked and welcomed foreign guest who came all the way from Sweden to attend this program.

The program was inaugurated by Hon’ble Sri Chandra Mohan Roy who was then the Health Minister of Bihar. While inaugurating the conference, Sri Roy said that Bihar govt will support local researchers and arrange funding for researches in Medical science. He thanked organizing society for organizing these events in Bihar. Sri Ajay kumar Thakur, hon’ble Principal Secretary, dept of Science and technology while delivering speech as special guest highlighted the use of nano medicine in medicine particularly for cancer and other dreaded diseases.

Mr. I.Y.Lee , CEO of nSYSTechnologies, Seoul, South korea thanked BiharBrains and its chairman Mr. Bibhuti Bikramaditya for organizing this kind of interaction program and giving him an honor to address the scientists of India and Sweden. He said, India and Korea are culturally related. He said his purpose to visit India is to see market and investment possibility in the country .Because of time limitation, he couldn’t address the gathering. His written speech was delivered by Dr. Arjun Singh, HOD Orthopaedics of PMCH,Patna.

Dr. Arjun Singh presided the inaugural session and gave vote of thanks.

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(Sri Chandra Mohan Roy, Hon’ble Minister for health on Dias while delivering speech as chief guest)

Sweden India Scientist Interaction Program on Nano Medicine Jan17, 2008: A report

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(Sri Chandra Mohan Roy(right), Hon’ble minister for health, Sri Ajay Kumar Thakur(Middle), Hon’ble Principal Secretary, Science and Technology, Govt of Bihar and Prof Katrina Lundstedt of Uppsala university, Sweden lightening lamp ceremony)


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(Sri Chandra Mohan Roy(right), Hon’ble minister for health, Sri Ajay Kumar Thakur(Middle), Hon’ble Principal Secretary, Science and Technology, Govt of Bihar , Mr. I.Y.Lee , CEO of NSYSTechnologies Co.,Ltd ,Seoul, S.Korea, Prof Hari Shankar Sharma, Prof Torbjorn Lundstedt, Prof Katrina Lundstedt of Uppsala university and Prof J.Thakur former VC of Patna university on dias in Sweden lightening lamp ceremony)


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(Mr. I.Y.Lee , CEO of NSYSTechnologies Co.,Ltd ,Seoul, S.Korea, Prof Hari Shankar Sharma, Dr. Aruna Sharma, Prof Torbjorn Lundstedt, Prof Katrina Lundstedt of Uppsala university and Prof J.Thakur former VC of Patna university on dias during Inaugural session)

Technical Session:

Dr. Arjun Singh, HOD of Orthopedics presided the technical session. This session was started with the presentation of Professor Torbjorn Lundstedt of Uppasala University of Sweden on “Drug-development for neurotherapeutic agents. Role of nanomedicine”. During his presentation, he discussed the role of nano medicine for the development of drugs for neurotherapeutic agents.

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(Prof Torbjorn Lundstedt delivering his keynote)

Speaking about Environmental pollution and biology of aquatic animals, Katrina Lundstedt of the university stressed the need to have an international monitoring programme on the problem. She said one must be aware of the elements polluting fresh and marine water, soil and air.

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(Prof. Katrina Lundstedt delivering her keynote)

A professor of neurobiology at University Uppsala, Sweden, Dr.Hari Shanker Sharma delivered his presentation on “Nanomedicine: Promises and Challenges in future”. He said the effect of nano was being discussed and several research papers in this regard had been presented across the world. "The guidelines regarding nano have not been set but researches have shown that they would yield positive results in fighting diseases," he said.

Of late, nano technology has become a matter of prime discussion the world over in tackling virulent diseases. In fact, nano medicine and nano drug delivery system are considered more effective and economical than the conventional system.

Pointing out its efficacy during the programme, the experts informed that nano wire- based sensor chips were being developed to diagnose cancer by detecting the bio markers of malignant cells to enable treatment at the earliest.

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(Prof Hari Shankar Sharma deliver keynote on “Nanomedicine: Promises and Challenges in future”)

Dr.Aruna Sharma, Professors at Laboratory of Cardio_vascular Research, Uppsala University, Sweden presented her joint talk on “Influence of nano-articles on Blood-Brain and spinal cord barriers in relation to neurotoxicity and neurorepair.

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(Participants at Conference on Nano Medicine)

Technical session was concluded with a lively question and answer session.

Concluding session and vote of thanks:
Dr. B.K.Sharma gave vote of thanks on behalf of organizing society and appreciated the effort made by Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Patna Womens College, Mr. Vikash Kumar Kashyap, Mr. Vijay sharan, S.N. Sandhwar, Julie kumari, neeraj Bikramaditya, Sri Ravindra Kishore, Mr. A.K. Singh, Mr. Rahul Kumar for their hard work.

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(Dr. B.K.Sharma, President, BiharBrains giving vote of thanks to the participants)

He gave special thanks to three former VCs namely Dr. J.Thakur, Dr. RajMani Pd Sinha and Dr. A.Yadav whose presence all the time gives extra glare to the event.

He thanked Sri Shailendra Kumar Singh who locally coordinated with PMCH.

He gave thanks to all staff members of Department of S & T and its Hon'ble Secretary Sri Ajay Kumar Thakur for providing local hospitality to our guests and handling with media.

He admired Dr. Arjun singh for excellent coordination with all doctors of PMCH and Pharmacists and also for hosting this conference. The day concluded with a Dinner at Mayrya –Clarke. There also we had a lively interaction.

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