Nobel Laureates Should Emerge from NTR Health University - Vice President

The 40th anniversary celebrations of Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences were held grandly in Vijayawada, with Vice President of India C. P. Radhakrishnan attending the event. Addressing the gathering, he praised the contributions of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. T. Rama Rao to education, medicine, healthcare, welfare, culture and the development of the Telugu language. He highlighted NTR’s vision in establishing the country’s first medical university and recalled his humanitarian initiative through the Telugu Ganga project, which supplied drinking water to Chennai. The Vice President also noted the significant increase in medical colleges and seats across India over the past 12 years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, in line with the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047.

The Vice President expressed hope that NTR University would produce Nobel Prize winners in the future and urged students and researchers to gain international recognition through advanced research. He called for greater focus on innovative solutions to life-threatening diseases such as cancer. While acknowledging the growing role of artificial intelligence and digital health technologies in medicine, he stressed that doctors must never lose the human touch, compassion and care that patients need. He also urged doctors and young people to take the lead in preventing drug abuse and called for widespread public awareness of its harmful effects.