on thursday he emphasized on multidisciplinary research where computational chemistry can play an important role he also encouraged collaborative research between vnit and other institutes professor ss umare department head stressed on current research activities in the department prof ghosh presented an overview of the programme while prof das proposed vote of thanks a resource person at the workshop prakash saudagar an assistant professor of biotechnology at nit warangal said his team was working on diseases like leishmaniasis and malaria we are using redox metabolism a process very specific to the disease causing organism and absent in human beings for preparing parasite specific target molecules while i was doing my research at iit guwahati we could develop an antileishmanic molecule which is being patented he said another participant a pg student from central university chhattisgarh gave a lot of credit to availability of software from usa like the schrodinger which has made it possible to attack a particular disease causing agent using a particular molecule instead of the conventional hitandtrial method