Young scientists bring laurels to GADVASU

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 16

Two students, Dr Shabnam Sidhu and Dr Kirandeep Kaur Gill of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana, bagged ‘Young Scientist Award’ for their research work in Cardiology and Surgery, respectively.

Dr ArunAnand, Associate Professsor, Dr Kirandeep Kaur Gill, MVSc student, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology and Dr Shabnam Sidhu, Phd scholar, Department of Veterinary Medicine, participated in Indian VETopia – 2017 at Gurgaon organised by National Veterinary Foundation.

Dr ShabnamSidhu won the award for her master’s research on ‘Common Cardiomyopathies (heart related diseases) in Dogs: diagnosis and therapeutic management’ under the supervision of Dr SK Uppal, HoD, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr Kirandeep Kaur Gill was awarded for her research paper on ‘Evaluation of end threaded intramedullary pinning for the stabilization of distal metaphyseal and supracondylar femoral fractures in dogs’(Fractured bone treatment of dogs), a part of her master’s research supervised by Dr Ashwani Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology.

Dean College of Veterinary Science, Dr Parkash Singh Brar, congratulated the students on this achievement. Dr Simrat Sagar Singh, Dean Post Graduate Studies, informed that quality research is being carried out at GADVASU and currently it is rated among one of the best veterinary universities in India. “The department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery are doing excellent work in the field of small animal practice”, he added.