kanpur the indian institute of technology iit kanpur has announced the dates and details for the fifth edition of national students research convention a threeday annual event the nsrc 23 is set to take place from march 3 to 5 and the theme of the event this year is medtech and healthcare the welfare of humanitynsrc is a flagship event of the academics and career council at iitkanpur that serves as a platform for the brightest minds in academia and industry to showcase their cuttingedge research and innovation ideas it also provides opportunities for students especially those who showcase their research and innovative work to gain insight about their field of interest through talks and interactions with industry leaders as well as the faculty this years convention focussing on medical technology has brought together leaders and experts from the field of medicine and technology entrepreneurs spearheaded by dr d nageshwara reddy chairman and chief of gastroenterology asian institute of gastroenterology and prof k vijay raghavan former principal scientific adviser government of india professor national centre for biological sciences tifr the speakers to address the event are dr debojyoti chakraborty principal scientist csirinstitute of genomics and integrative biology anup singh associate professor center for biomedical engineering iit delhi prof amitabh bandyopadhyay professor head department of biosciences and engineering iit kanpur prof sri sivakumar coordinator project coinvestigator centre for nanosciences iit kanpur and kiran iyer scientist pfizer healthcare india pvt ltda workshop design thinking an agile tool for medical device prototyping organised by medtech laboratories of iitkanpur will give a handson training on manufacturing engineering medical devices manufacturing and rapid manufacturing it will also feature talks by prof j ramkumar professor head of imagineering laboratory department of mechanical engineering and amandeep singh reo imagineering laboratory department of mechanical engineering of the institutestudents can participate in the event by sending abstracts of their work for different themes including biomaterial biomechanics biofluidmechanics biophysics medical imaging medical devices medical instrumentations medical sensing implant and personalized medicine drug delivery cancer biology immunoengineering neuroengineering evolutionary biology and computational bioengineering registrations and submission of abstracts are open till february 22 at