One Day Seminar on “Scientific Writing and Publication Skills-A Stepping Stone to Research” on 9th January, 2019

Perceiving the importance of writing research proposals to International and National funding agencies and publication ethics, a one day Seminar on “Scientific Writing and Publication Skills-A Stepping Stone to Research” was organized by the Departments of Basic Medical sciences, Sree Balaji Dental College & Hospital, BIHER, 9th January 2019 at the Lakshmi Ammal Auditorium, Sree Balaji Dental College Hospital, Chennai.

The one day Seminar was coordinated by Prof. Dr. P. Jayamathi, Organizing Chairman, Dr. G. Sumathy, Organizing Co-chairman and Dr. K. Padmavathy, as the Organizing Secretary. The seminar was inaugurated by the Guest of Honor Dr. V. Kanagasabai, M.D., M.B.A., Vice Chancellor, BIHER and Dr. Ragavendra Jayesh, Principal, Sree Balaji Dental College & Hospital, Chennai.

Dr. T. Hemalatha currently serving as a DST – Women Scientist (WOS-A) (In Biological Materials Laboratory, CSIR – CLRI) and the Principal Investigator of a DST Project on “Dual acting methotrexate conjugated oleyl chitosan coated iron oxide/gold hybrid nanobiocomposites for lung cancer imaging (MRI and CT) and therapy” elaborated on the art of thesis writing to the Post Graduates. Her talk was on “ How to write a thesis? A step by step approach".

Dr. S. Kalpana, Senior Research Officer, Department of Epidemiology, Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University and the Principal Investigator of research projects funded by INCLEN highlted on “Funding research – Approaches & Difficulties. Her outstanding oration on the ethics and art of writing research proposals to International and National funding agencies was widely received by the young researches from various academic institutions.

Dr. E. M. Shankar, currently the Dean, School of Biological sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN), Thiruvarur, India delivered a lecture on “Mastering the art of high impact writing in biomedical journals. Dr. E M Shankar having more than 106 research publications in national and international journals and the Associate Editor and Academic Editor of various PubMed and Scopus indexed journals such as PlosOne, BMC Immunology, BMC Infectious Diseases, etc. highlighted the requirement for an ethics check on manuscripts before submission to restrain from subsequent journal rejection and/or retraction