medical application

Stepping-up Health Tech

Stepping-up Health Tech

IIT KGP and ICMR Collaboration for Mega Boost to Medical Technology Industry and Healthcare Ecosystem of India Times of India         Careers 360         Economic Times          NDTV Education         UNIIndia      India Today       Hindustan Times         Indian Express          Express Healthcare         Outlook            Business Insider IIT Kharagpur is going to set up a Centre of Excellence on Medical Device and Diagnostics to foster innovation of affordable and indigenous medical devices and diagnostics in priority…
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Innovating for Rural Healthcare

Innovating for Rural Healthcare

Financial Express           Times Now           Economic Times           The Hitavada             The Week           Amar Ujala              Sakshi              Business Standard              Millennium Post            Express Healthcare Do you think compact discs are devices of the past? May be for your laptops, but not for researchers at IIT Kharagpur who have redefined the use of CDs for low-cost medical…
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Agenda for the future

Agenda for the future

Natural biopolymers made from silk, chitosan, collagen, gelan gum are now not only used to make scaffolds for tissue engineering, but they can also be used to create a “3D cell culture microenviroment” to investigate the proliferation and migration of cancer cells. The information was given to the audience by Dr Subhas C. Kundu of the University of Minho, Portugal at the International Conference on Advances in Polymer Science and Rubber Technology (APSRT) at IIT Kharagpur held from September 24-27. At another session at the same conference, Prof. Sanjib K. Patra of the Department of Chemistry of IIT Kharagpur explained…
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