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Prevent exploitation of nature: SVU VC
Tirupati: Sri Venkateswara University (SVU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) A Damodaram said that quality of life depends on environment. He stated that humans depend on the environment for food, water, shelter and other essential needs. Damodaram inaugurated a three-day conference on international conference on environmental conservation and human health-challenges and strategies here on Wednesday.
Tirupati: Sri Venkateswara University (SVU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) A Damodaram said that quality of life depends on environment.
He stated that humans depend on the environment for food, water, shelter and other essential needs.
Damodaram inaugurated a three-day conference on international conference on environmental conservation and human health-challenges and strategies here on Wednesday.
Speaking on the occasion, the VC said there is a balanced natural cycle exists between environment and lives of human beings.
But, hazards are increasing day-by-day due to over exploitation of nature and increasing human intervention in environment leading to the health problems.
Increase in chronic diseases like cancer, heart failure, asthma and many more are the result of environmental pollution.
He gave a call to people to pay more attention on improving green cover by taking up plantation in their home as well as at work places.
Sustainable development interlinked with the protection of environment is the need of the hour, he said.
In his key note address on genomics and future medical implications, Hyderabad based CCMB Director Dr Rakesh K Mishra said humans have fewer protein-coding genes than expected–only about 20,000.
About 1.5% of the human genome is involved in coding for protein, but there are numerous complex critical functions encoded in the rest of the DNA. We are all 99.9% the same at the DNA level.
In this connection, he spoke about the merits of personalised medicine with the use of information from a patient's genotype for initiating a preventative measure against the development of a disease and selecting the most
appropriate therapy.
Dwelling on Pharmacogenomics (PGx), he said the study of variations in DNA and RNA characteristics as related to drug response is one of the most exciting areas of personalised medicine.
PGx uses genetic information such as DNA sequence, gene expression, and copy number for the purpose of explaining inter-individual differences in drug metabolism.
Advances in PGx have opened new possibilities in drug discovery and development, he added.
Thiruvalluvar University Vice-Chancellor K Murugan, scientists from USA Dr K Urmila, Jagadeeswaran and others also spoke.
