A medical graduate from Tamil Nadu has secured the second prize in the BRICS Young Innovator Prize held in Brazil last month.

Sakthi Jaya Sundar Rajasekar was part of an Indian delegation of 11 young scientists and innovators at the 10th BRICS Young Scientist Forum and the 8th BRICS Young Innovator Prize event.

The thematic areas of this year’s forum focused on pressing global challenges such as climate change mitigation and adaptation, science diplomacy in a changing world, and artificial intelligence for societal solutions.

Mr Rajasekar’s project focused on developing an artificial intelligence-powered rapid diagnostic solution to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) using single-bacterium nanomotion dynamics.

source/content: thehindu.com (headline edited)