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Gujarat Biotechnology University (GBU) held its 2nd convocation connected Wednesday astatine its GIFT City campus, wherever 94 students graduated with MSc degrees successful Biotechnology.
The convocation was attended by Minister of Science and Technology Arjunbhai Modhwadia arsenic the Chief Guest, portion Dilip Shanghvi, Founder and Executive Chairman of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and Chairman of the University, presided implicit the event.
Addressing the graduates, Director General of GBU Subeer Majumdar said the assemblage had expanded its probe footprint done much than 70 competitory grants amounting to astir ₹40 crore. He said GBU has developed collaborations with planetary institutions and continues to pull students and module from divers technological backgrounds.
Mr. Majumdar said the graduating batch included students who had secured nationalist fellowships, probe awards and manufacture placements. He noted that GBU present hosts the highest fig of GAT-B qualified students from a azygous field successful the country.
Mr. Modhwadia said the convocation represented the increasing relation of Gujarat successful subject and technology. He said GBU was established with the purpose of strengthening nationalist capableness successful biotechnology and urged students to guarantee their enactment benefits society.
“Biotechnology indispensable scope coasts, farms, villages and industries,” helium said, adding that the assemblage should enactment toward establishing 4 specialised outer centres focused connected coastal, industrial, agro-food and dryland biotechnology.
Presiding implicit the ceremony, Chairman Dilip Shanghvi said GBU was created arsenic a research-focused assemblage with beardown manufacture connections. He highlighted the dependable maturation successful probe output implicit the past 3 years and encouraged students to support integrity and subject successful their technological careers.
“Persist adjacent erstwhile results instrumentality time, and uphold morals adjacent erstwhile easier options appear,” helium told the graduating class.
Five golden medalists, 1 from each of the university’s biotechnology specialisations were felicitated. They were Waman Nachiket Somnath successful Animal Biotechnology, Sheikh Mohammed Atique Mohammed Siddique successful Environmental Biotechnology, Radikar Madhura Damodhar successful Industrial Biotechnology, Aniket successful Medical Biotechnology, and Jayshree Pawar successful Plant Biotechnology.
The graduating cohort included: Medical Biotechnology (20), Industrial Biotechnology (20), Plant Biotechnology (16), Animal Biotechnology (19), and Environmental Biotechnology (19).
