The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : National honour for `Manjunath Technique'

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Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

National honour for `Manjunath Technique'

Staff Reporter

C.N. Manjunath

BANGALORE: C.N. Manjunath, Director of the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, has been awarded the Padmashri for developing the "Manjunath Technique."

Speaking to The Hindu , Dr. Manjunath (51) expressed his happiness at being awarded the honour and dedicated it to his staff, family and patients. He said that the low cost technique was in scientific circles called "Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty." "The technique reduces the cost of the operation by 30 to 40 per cent and has come as a boon to the poor," Dr. Manjunath said.

The technique involves inserting a low priced balloon when performing the angioplasty, he said.

American, French and Argentinian doctors have been trained in the technique, he added.

Dr. Manjunath said that in the past year, the hospital performed 9,000 angiograms, which was the highest in South India, and 2,500 angioplasties.

Aiming for the moon

This year's Padmashri award winner for science Thomas K. Alex is Director of the Laboratory for Electro Optic systems (LEOS) of the India Space Research Organisation. LEOS specialises in developing camera sensors and all electro-optical attitude sensors that are used in satellites

Dr. Alex told The Hindu : "This is a recognition for ISRO and its work to take India's space programme forward." The work done by LEOS is a vital component of any satellite launch, as the sensors find directions in space and point television antennae towards the earth.

LEOS is currently gearing up to fit the Chandrayaan vehicle with "top class" sensors. Dr. Alex and his laboratory, which he says makes the best direction finding sensors or "Star sensors" in the world, is developing sensors that will guide the first Indian to step on the moon.

Kharak Singh Valdiya, geoscientist from Karnataka, is the third recipient of the Padmashri award from the State this year.

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