Overview of the University
Dr Poornima Baliga B, Pro Vice Chancellor – MAHE,
presented an overview of the University (same as Day 1 Presentation)
Introduction of the Chief Guest
Introduction of Chief Guest by Dr K Satyamoorthy, Director, Manipal School of
Life Sciences, Manipal
Esteemed dignitaries on and off the dais, Or to the technophiles in the audience, let
ladies and gentlemen. Good afternoon to me quote what Arvind Gupta (Inventor, Toy
Maker) said: “Biology is the most powerful
everyone assembled here.
technology ever created. DNA is software,
It is my distinct privilege and honour to proteins are hardware, cells are factories.”
be standing here on this 27th Annual Our chief guest is armed with the expertise
Convocation of MAHE to introduce our chief of working with the hardware and software of
guest Dr Shekhar Mande.
living cells.
Dr Shekhar Mande is among the pioneers
in the country in the areas of structural
and computational biology, specifically on
elucidating functions of proteins. In the words
of Nobel Laureate Har Gobind Khorana,
“Everything that human beings or living
beings do is done by protein molecules.”
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Dr Shekhar Mande has researched for over
20 years on the biochemical, biophysical
and computational methods to analyse the
proteins to understand the biology. This
includes bacterium that causes tuberculosis
which is responsible for unprecedented misery
and human mortality in the world.