Alex Chernov invited Prof. Govindasamy Kumaramanickavel, Advisor - Research, Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital for a dinner to celebrate the Institute’s delegation to India which is on Friday 4th March 2011 at Taj Mahal Palace Princess Room, Mumbai.
The University of Melbourne established the Australia India Institute in October 2008.
The University's aim was to establish a world-class Australia India Institute based at the University of Melbourne, acknowledged for its regional leadership in research, graduate training, executive briefings, policy advice and knowledge partnerships for the benefit of both countries and the broader Asia Pacific region. Both the University of New South Wales and La Trobe University were also founding partners.
The University's aim was to establish a world-class Australia India Institute based at the University of Melbourne, acknowledged for its regional leadership in research, graduate training, executive briefings, policy advice and knowledge partnerships for the benefit of both countries and the broader Asia Pacific region. Both the University of New South Wales and La Trobe University were also founding partners.
The Australia India Institute’s core activities are to:
• Operate as a national epicentre of information on India
• Build India knowledge in the Australian government, business and general communities
• Engage in practical collaborative research around priority areas
• Develop and enhance skills with postgraduate level teaching and exchanges
• Provide consultancies on issues of national priority
• International conferences, community engagement and cultural dialogues
• Build India knowledge in the Australian government, business and general communities
• Engage in practical collaborative research around priority areas
• Develop and enhance skills with postgraduate level teaching and exchanges
• Provide consultancies on issues of national priority
• International conferences, community engagement and cultural dialogues
In 2004 Alex Chernov was elected as a Deputy Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and is now its Chancellor. In 2008 Alex Chernov was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia.
Prof. Govindasamy Kumaramanickavel, for the last two decades, has worked on ocular genomics - primarily involved in gene mapping, mutational screening and association studies including genome wide in complex (diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, myopia, open angle and angle closure glaucomas) and Mendelian (corneal dystrophies, Seathre-Chotzen syndrome, Nance-Horan syndrome, retinal degenerations, retinoblastoma) ophthalmic diseases and molecular diagnostics.
Carrier: He graduated in medicine from the University of Madras, from the Madras Medical College, Chennai, India and subsequently graduated in the same college in MD (Physiology). As a Fogarty Visiting Associate in 1997-98, he was trained by Dr. Fielding Hejtmancik in the Ophthalmic Genetics & Clinical Services branch, National Eye Institute, National Institute of Health, USA. Between 1992 and 96 he was Research Fellow, Ocular Gene Mapping Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and was trained by Dr. Michael Denton. During the same period at Otago. Dr. Robert F Mueller trained him in genetic counseling. He was at Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai as the Deputry Director of Research and Prof and head of the Dept of Genetics and Molecular Biology. He was at Sankara Nethralaya for the last 12 years. He is a visiting scholar to the Dept of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Chinese Univ of Hong Kong and teaches human genetics course. Currently he is the Research Advisor at two premier ophthalmic institutions of India - (a) Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore with Dr. K Bhujang Shetty, Chairman and Managing Director, and (b) Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital, Mumbai with Dr. S Natarajan, Chairman and Managing Director.
Awards and Miscellaneous: He received the ISCA Young Scientist Award, Platinum Jubilee Session of the Indian Science Congress Association (1988) and Indira Vasudevan Award, Indian Association of Bio-medical Scientists (1986), India. He receives funding for projects from Indian Federal (Indian Council of Medical Research), Department of Science & Technology, Department of Biotechnology), and private funding from (Jamshedji TATA Trust) agencies.
He has published more than 76 articles including Nature Genetics, Human Molecular Genetics, American Journal of Medical Genetics and Genomics.
Carrier: He graduated in medicine from the University of Madras, from the Madras Medical College, Chennai, India and subsequently graduated in the same college in MD (Physiology). As a Fogarty Visiting Associate in 1997-98, he was trained by Dr. Fielding Hejtmancik in the Ophthalmic Genetics & Clinical Services branch, National Eye Institute, National Institute of Health, USA. Between 1992 and 96 he was Research Fellow, Ocular Gene Mapping Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and was trained by Dr. Michael Denton. During the same period at Otago. Dr. Robert F Mueller trained him in genetic counseling. He was at Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai as the Deputry Director of Research and Prof and head of the Dept of Genetics and Molecular Biology. He was at Sankara Nethralaya for the last 12 years. He is a visiting scholar to the Dept of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Chinese Univ of Hong Kong and teaches human genetics course. Currently he is the Research Advisor at two premier ophthalmic institutions of India - (a) Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore with Dr. K Bhujang Shetty, Chairman and Managing Director, and (b) Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital, Mumbai with Dr. S Natarajan, Chairman and Managing Director.
Awards and Miscellaneous: He received the ISCA Young Scientist Award, Platinum Jubilee Session of the Indian Science Congress Association (1988) and Indira Vasudevan Award, Indian Association of Bio-medical Scientists (1986), India. He receives funding for projects from Indian Federal (Indian Council of Medical Research), Department of Science & Technology, Department of Biotechnology), and private funding from (Jamshedji TATA Trust) agencies.
He has published more than 76 articles including Nature Genetics, Human Molecular Genetics, American Journal of Medical Genetics and Genomics.
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