University Grants Commission Grant for New Course

Coimbatore: The University Grants Commission has sanctioned Commission has sanctioned Rs.35 lakh for a new M.Sc. Bioinformatics course for the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology of the Avinashilingam University for Women. A university release said that the grant had been received under programme of teaching ad research in interdisciplinary and emerging areas. The programme had been approved for a period of five years with a student intake of 25.

Biotechnology

The department of Biotechnology of the Bharathiar University has received a grant of Rs.42.50 lakh from the University Grants Commission, under the Special Assistance Programme (SAP). A university release said the amount would be used to better the quality of teaching and research in different areas of biotechnology like proteomics, microbial biotechnology, plant molecular biology and animal biotechnology.

The coordinator and deputy coordinator of the SAP would be R.Boopathy, Professor of Biotechnology and K.Swaminathan, Professor and Head of the Department.

University Grants Commission Grant for New Course