Jammu and Kashmir Governor, Mr. N. N. Vohra, has highlighted the need for conducting extensive medical research to achieve the objective of cost effective treatment of communicable and non-communicable diseases. While addressing the inaugural session of the 3-day 37th Annual Conference of the Indian Immunology Society (IIS) organized by the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Srinagar, at the General Zorawar Singh Auditorium of the Jammu University today, Mr. Vohra dwelt on the obtaining and emerging healthcare scenario and the fast increasing costs of medicines and equipments and emphasized the urgent need for substantial funding for conducting high quality research for finding viable solutions to the emerging challenges. In this context, he referred to the implications of the Intellectual Property Rights regimes and the limited interest of the global pharma industry to make any investment to find solutions of problems facing the poorer countriesThe Vice Chancellor, Jammu University, Prof. Varun Sahni, speaking about the evolution of the discipline of Immunolgy and its high importance in the overall healthcare services, said that one can not imagine a world without vaccinations to prevent various diseases.