DR. JOSHI BOOSTS MORALE OF YOUNG SCIENTISTS FOR THEIR MEETING
WITH NOBEL LAUREATES
The Minister
for Human Resource Development and Science and Technology, Dr.
Murli Manohar Joshi providing a boost to the morale of 20 young
Indian scientists leaving for Lindau, Germany tomorrow for a roundtable
with Nobel laureates, urged them to prove their mettle and keep
up India’s prestige in the global scientific arena. He told them
that there is a Nobel laureate in every young scientist and researcher
provided they do something different from the ordinary, which
is useful to the humanity as a whole. He also told them that science
and nature are not two different things in fact science is in
nature itself.
Interacting with
each one of them here yesterday, Dr. Joshi pointed out that they
should learn to look at things differently and concentrate more
on building up immunity rather than symptomatic cure. He reminded
them that India has a very rich ancient traditional systems of
medicine which can cure almost all the diseases known to mankind.
Since the round-table meeting this time is on Physiology and Medicine
and the young researchers belonging to the field, the Minister
asked them to concentrate on diseases that afflict the masses
and the majority of the human kind. He suggested them to make
the best use of the opportunity of meeting the best brains in
the world and appropriately apply the ideas in their fields of
research.
This is the third
time that India is sending a team for the round table which started
as a plan to rebuild scientific bridges among nations after the
second world war, and has now developed into an internationally
recognized meeting point between students and young scientists
on the one hand and Nobel laureates on the other. Dr. Joshi launched
this programme in 2001 to encourage young researchers. The meetings
are held in three disciplines i.e. Chemistry, Physics, Physiology/Medicine
in turn, at intervals of three years.
This year, the meeting
dedicated to physiology and Medicine is being attended by 15 Nobel
laureates and about 500 young scientists from around the globe.
The topic of discussions comprise "Future in Medicine,",
"From basic discovery to clinical practice," "Genes
and Embryos," and "insights into molecular evolution"
etc.
