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Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 31: Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) right now introduced the launch of the primary Amgen Scholars Program in India on the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad), bringing the globally revered undergraduate summer season analysis program to India for the primary time.
Supported by a two-year dedication from Amgen by summer season 2027, this system displays the corporate’s long-standing dedication to advancing science schooling and provoking future innovators. The inaugural cohort includes 10 undergraduate students, together with college students from India, Vietnam, Qatar, and Dubai, creating alternatives for scientific collaboration and change throughout Asia. The college students symbolize universities throughout Asia and are pursuing undergraduate packages in science, engineering, and associated disciplines, reflecting this system’s regional range and tutorial excellence.
As a part of the intensive two-month residential analysis expertise, college students will discover synthetic intelligence and machine studying functions in basic sciences, drug design and discovery, healthcare, cheminformatics, genomics and associated areas alongside college mentors at IIIT Hyderabad. They may also have a possibility to take part in seminars, networking occasions and a regional Amgen Scholars Symposium to be held in Tokyo in August 2026. At the conclusion of this system, every scholar presents their analysis by a scientific poster presentation. The students had been chosen by a rigorous analysis by an professional committee at IIIT Hyderabad based mostly on tutorial excellence, analysis aptitude, motivation for doctoral research, and demonstrated curiosity in making use of AI and machine studying to drug discovery.
‘Scientific breakthroughs start with curious minds and significant alternatives to be taught,’ mentioned Naveen Gullapalli, Managing Director, Amgen India. ‘We are proud to convey the Amgen Scholars Program to India. We hope to encourage proficient college students to pursue analysis careers whereas serving to construct the interdisciplinary abilities wanted to strengthen India’s scientific ecosystem.’
‘We are delighted to function the host establishment for the primary Amgen Scholars Program in India,’ mentioned Deva Priyakumar, Professor & Dean (R&D), IIIT Hyderabad. ‘The program aligns properly with our research-led method to schooling and gives undergraduate college students with an distinctive alternative to contribute to cutting-edge analysis in AI for healthcare and drug discovery whereas studying from main college.’
‘AI is reworking each stage of biotech analysis, from understanding illness biology to discovering new medicines,’ mentioned Sandeep Shukla, Professor & Director, IIIT Hyderabad. ‘This program offers college students a possibility to work on actual scientific issues whereas creating the interdisciplinary analysis abilities wanted to handle tomorrow’s complicated healthcare challenges.’
Designed to encourage the scientists of tomorrow, the Amgen Scholars Program is a long-standing, signature initiative of the Amgen Foundation, offering undergraduates the chance to interact in a compelling summer season, scientific analysis expertise at a number of the world’s main establishments. This program builds on profitable programming within the United States, with over 4,000 U.S. college students having benefited from this system. Twenty-six main establishments internationally presently host the summer season analysis program. More than 6,000 college students from over 1,000 schools and universities have participated to this point. Financial help for college students is a crucial part of this system, which seeks to make sure that eligible college students, no matter their monetary standing, can take part. The Amgen Scholars Program seeks to broaden analysis, studying and networking alternatives for college students dedicated to pursuing superior levels in STEM. Thousands of program alumni have gone on to finish graduate schooling and construct careers throughout academia, biotechnology and healthcare in additional than 40 international locations. www.amgenscholars.com.
About Amgen
Amgen discovers, develops, manufactures and delivers progressive medicines to combat a number of the world’s hardest illnesses. Harnessing one of the best of biology and expertise, Amgen reaches thousands and thousands of sufferers with its medicines.
More than 45 years in the past, Amgen helped set up the biotechnology trade at its U.S. headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California, and it stays on the slicing fringe of innovation, utilizing expertise and human genetic information to push past what is thought right now. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to deal with most cancers, coronary heart illness, inflammatory situations, uncommon illnesses and weight problems and obesity-related situations.
Amgen has been persistently acknowledged for innovation and office tradition, together with honors from Fast Company and Forbes. Amgen is likely one of the 30 corporations that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and additionally it is a part of the Nasdaq-100 Index, which incorporates the most important and most progressive non-financial corporations listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market based mostly on market capitalization.
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About IIIT Hyderabad
The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) is an autonomous analysis college based in 1998 that focuses on the core areas of Information Technology, similar to Computer Science, Electronics and Communications, and their functions in different domains by inter-disciplinary analysis that has a better social affect. Some of its analysis domains embrace Technology Innovation, Intelligent Systems, Signal Processing and Communications, Data Sciences, Language Technologies, Robotics, Security, Algorithms, Software Engineering, Visual Information Technology, VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology , Computer Systems, Machine Learning, Quantum Science and Technology, Computational Social Science, Cognitive Science, Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics, Earthquake Engineering, Human Sciences, Spatial Informatics, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Smart Cities, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Technologies in Healthcare and Biomedical Research.
Website: www.iiit.ac.in
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