The University of Calicut has been sanctioned a research grant for ₹10 crore under the Union government’s Department of Science and Technology’s Anusandhan National Research Foundation.

The grant is under the Partnership for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research project, a release said on Friday (May 23). According to sources, the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, is the hub of the project, totalling ₹100 crore, and institutions such as the National Institute of Technology, Nagaland, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, West Bengal, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, Pondicherry University, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, and Bangalore University, Karnataka, are part of it.

The sources said that the study would focus on practical and computational studies on functional materials involving LED applications and biomaterials for cancer diagnosis. The department of Chemistry, Physics, Nanoscience, and Zoology would jointly work on it. Rajeev S. Menon is the principal investigator, while K.P. Zuhail, K. Drisya, K. Fazalurahman, E.S. Shibu, N.K. Renuka, T. Mohamed Shahin, Susmita De, Vijisha K. Rajan, T.D. Suja, R. Binu, and K. Sindhu are the co-investigators.