The Kerala State Higher Education Council (KSHEC) will organise a two-day cross-disciplinary National Conference of Experts and hands-on workshop on Knowledge Translation Research in Medical Sciences at the Cochin University for Science and Technology on December 16 and 17.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the programme that is aimed at reorienting the research sector to be competent in transforming knowledge into uses, services, property, and products by involving collaboration with multiple agencies.
The council has constituted a Knowledge Translation Research Advisory Committee– Medical Sciences to establish the knowledge translation centres. Renowned scientist M.S. Valiathan is the patron of the panel that will be jointly chaired by former director of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Samir K. Brahmachari and McMaster University (Canada) School of Medicine Distinguished Professor and cardiologist Salim Yusuf.
