Students should do basic research: Nobel laureate Richard J. Roberts

Vijayawada: Nobel laureate Sir Richard J. Roberts has laid emphasis to encourage students to do basic research to nurture their skills to become industrialists.

Taking part in the three-day international conference ‘Frontiers in Nutrition, Medical Genomics and Drug Discovery (INBIX-22) at Vignan University virtually on Monday, the Nobel laureate said he was the best example as his academic set up basic research allowed him to start New England Labs in Boston in US and added that it had become a billion dollar company at present. He opined that the drug discovery would play an important role in the field of medical genomics research and would also be more beneficial to students to connect to the research institutions.

Former director of IISC and chairman of Bhairac, Bengaluru, prof. G. Padmanabhan called for development of leadership skills.