Dr Venkata Pradeep Babu Koyyala - Senior Advisor and Head of Medical Oncology, Tezpur Cancer Centre - was felicitated with authorship appreciation award – for his contribution of two chapters to the book titled 'Devita Principles of Oncology - Review', by Union Minister Dr Harsvardhan. Dr Venkata co-authored the chapters along with his wife Dr Pavani Medisetty. Dr Harshavardhan inaugurated the first South Asian Edition of the International Oncology Book where he awarded all the authors along with editor Dr Swaroopa Mitra.