08 Apr 2022
Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Sciences, REVA University had organized an industrial visit on 08th April 2022 to the Merck (India) Pvt. Ltd, located in Industrial Area, Anekal Taluk, Bangalore 560010, Karnataka, India for the students for Research scholars and post graduate students.
Prof.Shilpa B.R, Dr. Senthil, Dr. Manjula K.R. and Prof. Renuka Madhu accompanied the research scholars and students.
Ms. Kritika at Merck (India) Pvt. Ltd and gave a clear introduction and explained their vision and mission. Merck was incorporated in India as E. Merck India Private Limited in 1967. It is a pharmaceutical company growing to become a science and technology business spanning all the sectors of Healthcare, Life Science and Electronics.
Merck was founded in 1668 at Darmstadt, Germany, by Friedrich Jacob Merck. We've been around for 350 years, and the founding family continues to be our majority owners. Merck, a leading science and technology company, operates across healthcare, life science and electronics. Around 57,000 employees work to make a positive difference to millions of people’s lives every day by creating more joyful and sustainable ways to live. Scientific exploration and responsible entrepreneurship have been key to Merck’s technological and scientific advances. This is how Merck has thrived since its founding in 1668. The founding family remains the majority owner of the publicly listed company. Merck holds the global rights to the “Merck” name and brand. The only exceptions are the United States and Canada, where the business sectors operate as EMD Serono in healthcare, Millipore Sigma in life science, and EMD in electronics.
Ms. Kritika, Dr. Senthil, and Dr. Pradeep addressed the students on the techniques which were involved in performing q- PCR technique and got an opportunity of hands-on experience by them they work on Healthcare, Life science and Electronics the specialized techniques like molecular markers, DNA fingerprinting, Marker Assisted Selection, Cell culture Techniques, Recombinant DNA technology, immune blotting techniques and Nanodrop technology, tissue culture. They also shed light on the various branches of Life sciences and Healthcare science.
Later, the students were taken for the field visit around the widespread Merck (India)Pvt.Ltd and were given an insight on the process of Healthcare, Life science and Electronics the specialized techniques like molecular markers, DNA fingerprinting, Marker Assisted Selection, Cell culture Techniques. They also spoke about how qPCR is very important techniques in designing the instrumentation parts.
Main aim of this visit was to provide an exposure to Research scholars and post graduate students a hands-on experience on q-PCR technique.
