Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi(NR)
 
Udupi Mar 2: K. Gopalakrishna Prabhu has been appointed Registrar of the Manipal University here with effect from Feb 29, informs a press release issued by the Manipal University here on Saturday, March 1.
 
Giving a brief synopsis on Prabhu, the press release goes on to state that Prabhu graduated in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Davangere (Mysore University), in the year 1988. He obtained his M.Tech. in Biomedical Engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal (Mangalore University), in 1994.
 
He was awarded him Ph.D. degree for his research, “New methods for analysis of foot pressures at different levels of diabetic neuropathy and early detection of plantar ulcers”, in 2001 by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He was confered the “Shri Shyam Lal Saxena Memorial Award”  for the year 2006-07.