Chandigarh, January 3: Panjab University Vice-Chancellor Prof Raj Kumar, along with a delegation from the university, attended the inaugural session of the 106th Indian Science Congress in Jalandhar today.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the event.
The PU Vice-Chancellor invited three Nobel laureates — German-American biochemist Prof Thomas Sudoph (2013 Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine for work on vesicle trafficking); Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in chemistry Prof Avram Hershko and physicist Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane (2016 Nobel Prize in physics) — to the university.
Prof Hershko confirmed his visit to the PU in the coming days. He had received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2004 “for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation”.
Prof Raj Kumar also had an interaction with the Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology, and the Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), on the subject of the possibility of collaboration regarding affordable technology for rural and remote areas.
The PM also talked about the same in his address.
There was also an interactive meeting with the Director General and the Director of Defence Research and Development Organisation with regard to joint projects of the PU with them.
