The rapidly burgeoning health care industry is moving ahead with the development of both the pharmaceutical and software industry in our country. Till date, the improvement in the healthcare sector is approximately 12% and is anticipated to grow by 13% year on year. The health informatics, a novel academic discipline bridging medicine and information sciences, has already made its presence felt in the country. However, there exists a gap between the healthcare and the IT sector. To reduce this gap and to meet the needs of the Healthcare professionals and Paramedical personnel, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in Collaboration with Mascon Global Limited, Gurgaon has designed and delivered Online Health Informatics Certification (OHIC)

Globally agreed by both professional organization and the academic institution, OHIC offers more visibility with measurable benefits like,

• Learn from the place you live
• Flexibility in attending the classes
• Cost- effective and time saving
• Interactive learning
• Zero Material cost
• Guidance from subject matter experts
• 24/7 Accessibility

What is OHIC ?

OHIC is an online curricular certification course to assist professionals in learning the basic concepts of Health informatics and Healthcare based specialized IT functions.

The OHIC program trains a modern Healthcare professional on basic technical knowledge and IT based techniques for proper patient account management. It equips professionals with the means to incorporate information technology into safe and effective evidence-based healthcare. It enables them to adopt new ways to accomplish their tasks more efficiently.

Eligibility Criteria

Any Healthcare professional and Paramedical personnel with Bachelors degree qualification

Course Structure

Course structure covers six units from basic to advanced in the related fields

Training and Testing

• Online Health Informatics Certification sessions comprise of Introductory, E-Classes, Assignments and Final Evaluation.
• Online material is provided to the registered candidates.
• During the training programme, assignments are given to each student at the end of each month. Each student is provided a web folder for posting their assignment material with in stipulated time.
• At the end of the course final evaluation is done based on assignments and final examination.

How to Apply & Course Fee

• Interested candidates can register online.
• Alternatively registration form can be downloaded, filled up and sent along with the hard copies of graduation certificate.

Candidates applying for each Session (July, October, January, April) are required to send the Registration Fees of  Rs. 6000 by Demand Draft OR Rs. 6050/- by cheque (inclusive of Rs. 50/- for bank clearance charges) in the name of ‘BIC Project’ payable at Sevagram / Wardha and send to Bioinformatics centre, JBTDRC, MGIMS, Sevagram- 442 102, Maharashtra, India before 15^th of June, 15^th of September, 15^th of December or 15^th of March for July, October, January, April sessions respectively.  The Fees will be $200 (Rs. 9000/-) for International Students.

Contact Address
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Bioinformatics Centre, JB Tropical Disease Research Centre, Sevagram (Wardha) 442 102, Maharashtra, India,
Telefax 07152 284038,
Email: m.rajesh@mgl.com, ohic@bicjbtdrc-mgims.in, mgims.btisnet@nic.in, info@jbtdrc.org,
Web: www.bicjbtdrc-mgims.in, www.mgl.com

MGL Life sciences in collaboration with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) developed a unified bioinformatics learning environment – Exome™ Horizon. It facilitates students to get well versed in Sequence analysis, Structural analysisand Drug designing module including QSAR [Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship].

To know more about Exome™ Horizon logon to: www.exome.mgl.com

For further inquiries on the program contact,

K Sasibhushan – +91-96189-99093

*The offer last till March 31st 2010

Now get Exome™ Horizon @ 33% off and free 30 days trial version

Contact: K Sasi bhushan – +919618999093

Sandy K. Chandra, became the Non-Executive Chairman of the Company in June 2001 and became Executive Chairman in June 2004. As Chairman, he is credited with several strategic initiatives being undertaken, such as acquisitions and fund raisings. He obtained his B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1973, and an MBA from Rutgers University, US in 1976. He worked for ABB Lummus Crest for 18 years in various capacities eventually heading operations in India. He has been appointed as Executive Chairman & CEO for a period of 5 years with effect from June 30, 2004 with the Central Government’s approval.

Nandu Thondavadi:

Dr. Nandu Thondavadi holds an extensive proven record of success in establishing and growing successful technology businesses and operations, increasing revenues, and leading international programs.

As the CEO of MGL, Thondavadi grew the business from zero to $250M in annual revenue, acquiring major accounts, expanding the business through penetration of new verticals and by acquiring nine additional companies. In addition, he took the company public and created a profitable software development joint venture with MasterCard International. Through his innovative, effective leadership, the company earned awards and recognition from Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touche, Crain Chicago, and Diversity Magazine.

Prior to launching Mascon Global, Mr. Thondavadi served as Vice President for Coleman Cable Systems, where he increased productivity by introducing new processes and technologies, and by implementing a specialized MRP system for production control. He also reduced inventory by migrating the company to a Lean / Just in Time methodology suite. Through Thondavadi’s dynamic leadership as Director of the Corporate Technology Center, Square D Company / Groupe Schneider dramatically increased profitability by introducing new product costing methods and eliminating many unprofitable products in one of their divisions. Mr. Thondavadi’s earlier success includes a position as a Professor of Operations Management at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and an award-winning turn as a Senior Engineer Consultant at Electronic Data Systems (EDS).

A resident of Illinois, Thondavadi is the author of the highly-acclaimed book, “Offshore Outsourcing: A Path to New Efficiencies in Information Technology and Business Processes,” and he has served on the boards of globally-listed technology companies and charitable organizations. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

SpecialtiesActivity Based Costing, BPR, Business Intelligence, Consulting, Business Development, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship, ERP, Governance, Joint Ventures, Management Consulting, Marketing, Operations Management, Policy Analysis, Process Engineering, Quality, Sales, Scheduling, Simulation, Software Development, Supply Chain, Strategy, Teaching

With the exams over, a question that you will undoubtedly ask yourself is whether you are skilled enough to take up the industry challenges that will be subjected on you at your job.

Doubt no more. Equip yourself with the best industry knowledge at MGL. Utilize your vacation time to enhance your skills and get direct exposure to the corporate world.

MGL is organizing seminars/workshops as your industry partner. The goal of the workshop is to throw light on industry relevant life sciences, particularly in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, trends and technologies imparting paradigm shifts. Our state-of-the-art training includes sequence analysis, structural bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, drug designing, data analysis and various programming languages like Perl, Python and their applications. Solve real life industry problems through world class patented products used by the life sciences industry.

Workshop Titles

• Fundamentals of software engineering in Life Sciences
• Introduction to Machine leaning: Techniques & Applications
• Drug discovery & Clinical trials
• In-Silico drug designing
• Handling Omics data : Genotype to Phenotype
• Evolution of DNA Bar-Coding: Phylogeny
• Era of open source software in Life Sciences : Tools and database
• ABC of Molecular DOCKING
• Microarrays: Concept, Data Analysis & Applications
• Know what to do with your Genome Sequence
• Scripting and programming languages for Bio-IT applications

Schedule

3 days seminar/workshops. Fresh batches start from 15^th December 2009 to March 2010. Sessions repeat every 15 days

Benefits

• Option to choose on-campus location
• Option to choose from three training tracks – SILVER* (Basic), GOLD* (Advance) and PLATINUM* (Corporate)
• Additional free session on “Corporate Etiquettes” with every workshop
• Case study driven approaches to apply theoretical concepts to scientific problems

* Different fee structures apply for Silver, Gold and Platinum training levels

Venue:

MGL – Health Care & Life Sciences Division,

758, Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon, INDIA

Contact Details:

Dr. Chitra Gupta, Senior Computational Biologist and Training coordinator

Health Care & Life Sciences Division,

Phone: 0124-4505301, 0124-4505308

Mail id: training.gurgaon@mgl.com

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Bioinformatics is a rapidly burgeoning field in the Healthcare and Life Sciences industry. MGL’s Life Sciences division recognizes the importance of a training program in this vital field. Experts have already dubbed bioinformatics – a hybrid profession pairing biology and computer science – the career choice of the decade.

This year’s “Beyond Borders” report states that the current Biotechnology industry continues to grow rapidly, as companies raise record amounts of venture capital and the potential value of mergers, acquisitions and alliances reaches new heights. This consequently will create significant job openings in the areas of software development, drug designing, and database in various research areas.

A high percentage of the students who have passed out from the last few batches have now started successfully publishing their projects in international conferences.

About Training

Over the past six years, MGL has been contributing to Life Sciences research community by conducting Industrial training / Certificate Program in the Bioinformatics industry. We permit students (M.Tech, M.Sc, B.Tech, B.Sc etc) from various academic institutions to carry out their dissertation and project work in disciplines involving Genomics, Proteomics, Cheminformatics, Bio-computing, FDA compliance, Pathway designing and analysis, Database designing and Biological algorithm designing. Also available are various programming languages like PERL/PYTHON and exposure to MGL’s Bioinformatics educational tools such as EXOME^TM Horizon, which includes sequence, structure and drug design modules.

List of Courses

These courses are intended for candidates pursuing/completed their graduation or post graduation in any of the above mentioned areas having some knowledge of bioinformatics.

Salient features of training program

• Interaction with “who’s who” of academia (JNU, NII, IGIB, ICMR, DBT etc) and Industry (MGL, Ranbaxy, Panacea, Hamdard, Dabur etc)
• Lectures/Demos/Presentations to keep you aware of bleeding edge technologies in life sciences viz. Cloud Computing, Clinical Bioinformatics, Molecular Diagnostics, Nano-Biotechnology etc
• Hands-on experience with Industry leading platform for integrated life sciences informatics: EXOME^TM-Horizon.
• Frequent interactions with life sciences functional & career experts from MGL to explore and understand various career opportunities
• Placement assistance and MGL Certification

Why MGL ?

MGL Life Sciences division was established in 2001 and since then, we have launched a variety of products and services for addressing and solving biological problems ranging from Genomics to drug designing. Some of them are:

• EXOME^TM
• EXOME^TM ED
• EXOME^TM BLAST
• EXOME^TM Horizon
• Oncomaster^TM

Our state-of-the-art facilities include:

• One-on-one PCs with high-speed Internet connection and power backup
• Experienced, qualified and highly skilled faculties in their respective areas
• Guidance from experienced software developers to understand the product development
• Career guidance and personality development sessions
• Interaction/collaboration with industries for placement opportunities
• Visiting domain consultants from leading research institutes/universities

Placement Assistance:

At the MGL Training Center, we understand that the goal for most students, following their respective degree from various colleges, is to obtain a successful and rewarding career. We offer job placement assistance to our Training Program graduates. We have successfully maintained an extremely high job placement success rate within our trainees’ chosen career field. Our association does not end the minute you graduate, because at MGL we believe that once you have been trained by us you are part of the MGL family for life. Our career assistance will be available for any graduates throughout the duration of their professional career. We strongly believe that as a MGL training program graduate you are prepared to go out into the life sciences profession and be a success. Our track record of success speaks for itself, as employers constantly comment that our trainees’ skill level and professionalism are excellent.

Location of training: 758, Udyog Vihar, Phase 5, Gurgaon 122016

For more information, Contact Rajesh

There is a clear need for an organized central resource that collects links to bioinformatics training material. The EXOME™ Horizon (EH) is an attempt to fill this need.

EXOME™ Horizon, an enabling service for Bioinformatics is a “Unified bioinformatics Learning Environment” that integrates the tools to learn, appreciate, explore and teach Bioinformatics in an optimal way. It facilitates the understanding of Bioinformatics among researchers and students.

The EXOME™ Horizon is an organized collection of Sequence Analysis tools, Structural Bioinformatics tools & Drug discovery tools, Comprehensive tutorials, In-built databases, On-line references, Sample test datasets, etc. In short everything that interested scientists/student’s need in order to train themselves in the emerging discipline of bioinformatics

EXOME™ Horizon is a service offering that consists of Sequence Analysis, structural bioinformatics and Drug Designing modules. EXOME™ Horizon uses workflow model through which a user can effectively and efficiently comprehend the procedural steps of sequence analysis, structure analysis and drug designing.

Listed below are just some of the areas in which training is conducted using EXOME™ Horizon:

• Genomics -Sequence/Structure Annotation, Phylogenetic Analysis, SNP Analysis, Genomics/Comparative
• Proteomics – Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Modeling and Simulations
• Cheminformatics -Pharmacophore/QSAR Modeling, Combinatorial Library design, Molecular Docking, Structure Based Drug Designing, Toxicity Modeling and Prediction, Chemical Databases

Some of the salient features of EXOME™ Horizon other than the one mentioned above are as follows:

1. Client server architecture minimizes the cost per user.
2. Minimizes the hard ware requirement to a Server
3. User specific & secure work space
4. Comprehensive help menus for self learning
5. Limiting the use of internet bandwidth with inbuilt data bases- Nucleotide, PDB, PDBQ etc.
6. Interactive GUI removes the pain to learn and write commands to run an application.

Easy to understand the results/output through graphical representation and saves valuable time in understanding the application specific output

For any further queries on EXOME™ Horizon, kindly contact Rajesh

New Trends in ERP Support

09th July 2009 – 16:00 to 17:00 (IST)

Presented by Mr. Vedantham SVP, Technology Solutions

Join Mr. V Vedantham for a live webinar that focuses on increasing organizational efficiency through ERP and explore the new trends in its implementation and support.

The integration of large back office systems into a single system process provides robust business value to organizations by easily sharing information with all systems & departments. By providing value in terms of reducing costs and automating the workflow process, your clients are served better.

However many companies are unable to predict the pain areas during post-implementation phases of ERP systems. This has become a growing problem since there just isn’t any time for companies to find appropriate skilled professionals to tweak and continuously improve functionality of the systems in place. By prioritizing and enhancing maintenance and support activities, you can avail of a high degree of transparency that will not only lead you to financial gain but also to explore and invest in new market areas.

Points to be discussed

1. What are the complexities and challenges involved in ERP support?
2. What are the current pain areas of Indian companies in terms of availing of ERP support?
3. How does ERP Clinic- an MGL concept for ERP support – work?
4. What are the benefits of ERP Clinic?
5. How to reduce risks and costs through ERP Clinic?

Who can attend?

CEO, CFO, CTO, Head of IT and Finance, Directors, COO and everyone interested in ERP

Your Esteemed Speaker Mr. V Vedantham has a total of 37 years of industry experience of which 33 years were dedicated to IT areas of design, development and implementation manufacturing applications. He began his career as an Industrial Engineer in BHEL, Trichy and then moved on to head the software product development wing at Mascon Technical Services.  He has also played the role of consultant in a number of manufacturing engagements as well. Currently he is the Senior Vice President, Technology Solutions at Mascon Global Limited and is extensively involved in setting up and managing large ERP practices with main focus on SAP.

This Webinar is FREE!