CHANDIGARH,30.11.22-48th ACBICON 2022, the National Conference Association of Clinical Biochemists of India,was held in New Delhi from 24-26 November 2022. Faculties, residents and research scholars from the Department of Biochemistry attended the conference and brought various laurels to the Institute. Professor Arnab Pal conferred with prestigious Mrs. & Dr G. P. Talwar Oration inrecognition of his outstanding contribution to the advances in clinicalBiochemistry. This award is given annually to distinguished biochemists for contribution in the advancement in the field of biochemistry and clinical biochemistry. His work constitutes new biomarker discovery in oral cancer. This includes biomarkers from saliva for early diagnosis and liquid biopsy-based identification of circulating tumour cells from blood of oral cancer patients, as a pioneering work first time in India.