The work done at COHEART on “ELISA-based evaluation of rabies antibody titre in veterinarians subjected to anti-rabies vaccination”, received best poster presentation award during Kerala Science Congress held on 28/01/2018. Dr. Hamna Hakim presented the paper. Dr. Hamna is PGDOH student of COHEART.  Dr. Hamna Hakim also received KSCSTE Springer Award. 

The 30th session was held at Government Brennen College, Thalassery, Kannur from 28 to 30 January 2018 and inaugurated by Chief Minister Shri. Pinaray Vijayan in a programme presided by Dr.Suresh Das, Executive Vice President, KSCSTE. Dr. A. S. Kiran Kumar, Former Chairman, ISRO,delivered the Keynote address. Focal theme was "Viruses and Infectious Diseases. "Dr, T. J. John, CMC, Vellore; Dr. S. Vijaya, Professor, IISc., Bangalore and Dr. Anmol Chandele, Group Leader, ICGEB-EMORY Vaccine Program ICGEB, New Delhi were the speakers in this session (Source Wikipedia).