Keynote speaker

                      DR. vASANTHA MUTHUSWAMY

Retired as Senior Deputy Director General and Chief of Division of Basic Medical Sciences, Traditional medicine & Bioethics and Division of Reproductive Health & Nutrition from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in 2008 . She is currently President of FERCI (Forum for Ethics Review Committees in India) and Advisor at Centre for Clinical research and Ethics at PSGIMS&R, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu and member of many Institutional Ethics committees and Stem cell research committees.

guest of honour

                           dr. nandini k. kumar

Former Deputy Director General Senior Grade (ICMR)
Qualifications: MBBS, DCP, MHSc (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)
Awards and Achievements:
  • Member of international panel of President Obama’s Bioethics Commission for Study of Bioethical Issues
  • Lifetime Achievement Award from ISCR
  • More than 20 years of experience in Bioethics
Research affiliations:
  • ​Consultant for research ethics and traditional medicine research
  • Reviewer & publications in ethics and traditional medicine mainly.