Science City sets young minds thinking |
08-07-2014 8th July 2014 Courtesy: The Hindu Science City sets young minds thinking Academicians promote idea of research in pure sciences among students through a training programme Mohana from Sivakasi, a postgraduate student in chemistry, knows what she wants to do after completing her course: she would take up research and identify a drug for treatment of cancer. “The present generation of anti-cancer drugs, one of which is cisplatin, contains the heavy-metal platinum, which causes many side-effects, including damage to healthy cells and tissues surrounding the malignant tumour. Now, I want to discover or identify a complex, based on ruthenium and flavonoids, which will have fewer side-effects,” she says. |