Dr Akila. S, Third Year Junior Resident, Department of Pharmacology, JIPMER was awarded prize for best oral presentation at ClinicoPharmacon- 2018 held on September 5 and 6, 2018  at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Porur, Chennai. Her paper titled “Curcuma longa decreases arterial stiffness in type 2 diabetes mellitus: A randomized, double blind, parallel arm, placebo controlled trial” was co-authored by Dr Sandhiya S, Dr Sadish Kumar@ Kamalanathan, Dr T Kadhiravan,  Dr Surendiran A, JIPMER, Puducherry and Dr NC Prasanna Lakshmi, Directorate of Indian System of Medicine, Govt. of Puducherry