NIBMG celebrated 8th 'Institute Day' on February 23, 2018. The main programme was organized in association with Indian Association for Cancer Research, where the Institute Day Lecture of NIBMG was also the IACR Oration at the 37th Annual Convention of IACR. The venue of the programme was Bose Institute, Kolkata. Dr. Peter Campbell from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK, delivered The Institute Day Lecture entitled “Using Genomics to Inform Care of Patients with Cancer”.
Earlier, on February 21, 2018, another programme was arranged at the Institute campus in Kalyani where Dr. Peter Campbell was the Chief Guest and he delivered a technical lecture to the students and faculty members of the Institute entitled “Temporal Evolution of Kidney Cancer”. The Guest-of-Honour was Dr. Simon Croft from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. He delivered a lecture entitled “Infections and Neglected Tropical Diseases: From Treatment to Elimination”. Both the guests planted saplings and also interacted with the PhD students. There was huge enthusiasm among all the members of NIBMG.
