Gold medal awarded to Dr Somarendro
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 03 2011:
Dr Arambam Somarendro has been awarded Gold Medal with citation by the Indian Board of Alternative Medicine, Kolkata on February 28 for his contribution in the field of Alternative Medicines for the year 2010-11 .
He was awarded the Ph D degree for his work entitled 'Conceptual Analysis of Nutrition in Alternative Medicines and its Research Model on lab Animal (Rabbit)' under the supervision of Dr M Dhaneshwar, Professor and Head (Animal Science) CAU as Chairman of the Advisory Committee which consists of Dr Th Suraj, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, RIMS, Dr M Sumarjit, Associate Professor, Department of Agronomy, CAU, Dr Th Ranadhir, Assistant Professor (Animal Science) CAU and Dr W Rameshwar, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, MU as members.
His work focused on nutrition as a system of Alternative Medicine with relation to common chronic diseases such as Diabetes, Coronary Heart Diseases, Obesity and Overweight, Cancer and Health status of aged persons.
Dr A Somarendro, is a resident of Lilong Chajing, Imphal West.
He completed his graduation in BV Sc and AH (1988-1994) in 1st Class with distinction, from Mathura Campus.
He joined the PG programme with ICAR/IVRI-JR fellowship 1994 in the main discipline of Animal Nutrition along with Food Science and Biochemistry and completed the PG degree in 1st Class from IVRI, Itanagar in 1997 .
He worked as Assistant Professor in the Department Animal Science, CA, CAU, Iroisemba from 1998 to 2001.He got the qualification of NET (Nutrition) in 1998 and NET (Genetics and Breeding) in 2009.Futher, he topped at the All India level entrance examination of PhD programme for nutrition, conducted by IVRI-2001.He was working as senior research fellow in NRCM (National Research Centre on Mithun, 2001-02), ICAR Complex, Jolahpani, Nagaland.
He was also consultant as Chemist cum Microbiologist for BIS or ISI mark of potable drinking water production unit at Loktak Industry, Takyel Industrial Estate and feed formulator of Yumsha Food Products, Keishampat.
He had completed PhD in Animal Nutrition and Molecular Biochemistry.
He has published more than 30 research papers in international and national journals of repute.
He has researched in the field of Nutrition, Immuno-biochemistry and Rural Development.
At present he is working as a faculty member at SIRD Manipur.