TRAINING HANDS-ON WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS

 

Sun Pharma Science Foundation's Hands-on Training Workshop "METHODS OF DISSECTION OF RISK OF A COMPLEX DISEASE”


Dates : 02-07-2025 to 05-07-2025 (4 days)

Venue: 5th Floor, Medical College Building, NEIGRIHMS, Shillong

This Workshop is being organized in recognition of the need to expand research in India on human diseases enabling the identification of important risk factors and interactions among them, and to estimate risks attributable to these factors.

“Understanding Complex Disease Etiology Through Genomic and Epidemiological Approaches”

This workshop provides a comprehensive exploration into complex diseases—conditions influenced by multiple genetic and environmental factors, making them both challenging and common. Participants will delve into the frameworks for dissecting the etiology of such diseases, utilizing both retrospective and prospective study designs. Emphasis will be placed on the ethical considerations vital to human disease research. Foundational concepts in probability and statistics will be covered, along with methods for estimating key epidemiological parameters. The workshop will examine genetic and environmental risk factors and their interplay, supported by modern genomic technologies such as DNA microarrays, Whole-Exome Sequencing (WES), and Whole-Genome Sequencing (WGS). Attendees will learn techniques for genomic data summarization, quality control, and association testing to identify and estimate the impact of putative risk factors. Finally, the session will include strategies for summarizing association data to inform research and clinical applications.

Who can apply?

  • Must be involved in research related to human diseases.
  • Can be an industry professional with a PhD degree.
  • Can be a faculty member with a PhD from an academic institution.
  • Can be a young medical professional affiliated to a medical college.
  • Can be a research fellow formally enrolled in a PhD program at an academic institution.
  • Must be affiliated with an institution located in a North Eastern (NE) state of India.

Other relevant information:

Rules and Regulations & How to apply:

  • Registration for the workshop must be done through the Google Form provided via the official link.
  • Selection will be on a first come, first served basis.
  • Preference will be given to candidates with prior research experience.
  • Participants must be affiliated with a medical college or institute and actively involved in research.
  • Exceptions may be made for participants from newly established medical colleges where research exposure is limited, based on the decision of the organizing committee.
  • No travel allowance (TA) or daily allowance (DA) will be provided.
  • Board and lodging will be arranged free of cost for all outstation participants during the workshop.

Please submit your application immediately, selection will be done on first come first serve basis.

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For more details please visit https://sunpharmasciencefoundation.net