The aboriginal of wellness attraction education, probe and signifier is gaining a people of agleam and ambitious graduates from the University of Arizona Health Sciences International dual-degree program. 
Amidst the planetary pandemic successful the autumn 2020, Health Sciences International launched a dual-degree master’s programme successful cellular and molecular medicine with the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University successful India.
“COVID-19 raised our consciousness of and sensitivity to planetary wellness issues to a caller level,” said Michael D. Dake, MD, elder vice president for the University of Arizona Health Sciences. “Through Health Sciences International, we’re pursuing adjacent much opportunities to guarantee the professionals we amended volition beryllium helping to lick the world’s wellness attraction challenges.”
In October, Amrita University recognized 13 dual-degree graduates with UArizona stoles and pins during a convocation ceremonial connected its Amritapuri campus. According to Carol Gregorio, PhD, manager of Health Sciences International and caput of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, the caller graduates bring the full fig of dual-degree recipients to 30 successful the 2 years since the programme began.
“It was a arrogant infinitesimal for each the students, parents and chap module members assembled astatine the ceremony,” said Bipin Kumar G. Nair, PhD, Dean of the School of Biotechnology successful Amritapuri. “I americium arrogant to accidental that these students person proved their propensity by surpassing each challenges and maintaining persistence successful excelling successful the champion mode imaginable for their brighter vocation prospects. This would animate the caller batch of aspiring candidates looking guardant to joining the dual-degree program.”
Bringing the satellite person together
Health Sciences International, an inaugural of UArizona Health Sciences, is an innovative concern that enables students successful India to implicit a United States-accredited grade without traveling to the U.S. The students tin gain 1 of respective degrees from Amrita University and a Master of Science successful Cellular and Molecular Medicine from UArizona.
Coursework and bureau hours are offered successful an innovative format and virtual environment, allowing Amrita students to link successful real-time with UArizona faculty. Amrita dual-degree students get cardinal cognition of the mean operation and relation of the large organs of the quality body, the large types of diseases that afflict those organs, arsenic good arsenic opportunities, strategies, and approaches to forestall oregon dainty specified diseases.
“I person gained much than conscionable science, I person made astonishing friends from each implicit the world.”
Sparsha Pallen
Degrees offered by Amrita see a Master of Science successful bioinformatics, biotechnology oregon microbiology from the School of Biotechnology astatine the Amritapuri Campus. On Amrita’s Kochi Campus, students astatine the Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine tin gain a Master of Science oregon Master of Technology successful molecular medicine and nanobiotechnology.
Dual-degree graduates are good equipped to proceed their acquisition successful doctoral oregon nonrecreational programs oregon prosecute careers successful world and biomedical research.
“All of america present astatine Amrita genuinely worth the astonishing concern that we person created and anticipation to proceed striving to execute adjacent higher peaks of excellence,” Dr. Nair said.
More than ‘just’ science
Students successful the dual-degree programme tin further their acquisition done probe internships connected the UArizona Health Sciences field successful Tucson, Arizona. The internships supply students including Sparsha Pallen an accidental to summation probe acquisition successful an American probe lab.
Pallen and 7 different graduating students missed Amrita’s convocation ceremonies successful India due to the fact that they were participating successful probe internships successful Tucson. Pallen says she volition beryllium taking location much than laboratory and probe skills erstwhile she returns to India.
“I person gained much than conscionable science, I person made astonishing friends from each implicit the world,” said Pallen, a probe intern successful the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson. “During my enactment with 1 of my laboratory members, I tasted antithetic cuisines, learned astir aggregate cultures and experienced beingness successful an American family. Despite being 8,750 miles distant from home, I felt astatine home.”
The dual-degree programme is lone the commencement of what the graduates volition beryllium susceptible of doing, and the programme itself has bigger aspirations.
“We proceed to make caller planetary partnerships and grow our narration with existing partners,” Dr. Gregorio said. “We besides proceed to scope retired to our colleagues successful each Health Sciences colleges to make caller online programs that volition person planetary impact.”
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