For original research,India needs good infrastructure,mentors,says Nobel laureate

This was the first time FAONS organised its congress in India,with around 200 scientists from 19 countries participating. Wiesel is known for his pioneering work with Prof David Hubel in the field of information processing in the visual system,which won him the Nobel for Physiology or Medicine in 1981. Weisel,who is the Director of Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind,Brain and Behaviour,at the Rockefeller University,New York,said in India,there is no dearth of talent but the lack of a proper scientific system does not allow original research to come up.

“For original and good research,young people need to be encouraged and good mentors need to take promising students and encourage them with their work,” said Wiesel,stressing that mediocre teacher can produce only mediocre research work.