Our esteemed Vice-Chancellor, Prof. P. Prakash Babu, delivered the Presidential Address and inaugurated the International Conference cum Workshop “Global Summit on Innovative Drug Design, Discovery and Translational Research”, organized by the Dept of Bioinformatics, PU, in collaboration with the Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery Society (BIDDS) on 29th October 2025. Prof. P. Prakash Babu highlighted the need for integrative and interdisciplinary approaches to accelerate modern drug discovery and therapeutic development.