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BIRAC to support cutting edge technologies in areas of medical electronics
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Ramesh Shankar, Mumbai
June 30 , 2016
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Under its Industry Innovation Programme on Medical Electronics (IIPME),
the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) has
invited proposals from innovators, start-ups, SMEs and large Indian
companies individually or in partnership/consortia mode for development
and deployment of indigenously developed medical electronic devices in
healthcare centres across country.
The focus area of the
programme will be on imaging and navigation, technologies for chronic
diseases, convergence of medical device and bioinformatics and
increasing the outreach through medical electronics.
Under this
programme, BIRAC will support cutting edge technologies in
multidisciplinary areas of medical technologies ranging from handheld
point of care devices to large equipments, wearable gadgets to outreach
devices, and from health tracking devices to RADAR technology based
ultrasound machines.
Earlier, BIRAC had launched this programme
in partnership with the Department of Electronics and Information
Technology (DeitY) to promote and foster cutting edge technologies in
the multidisciplinary areas of medical electronics.
BIRAC
through its various flagship schemes is making significant investments
in the medical devices sector and hence promoting the R&D of medical
devices. BIRAC has supported more than 100 industries of medical
fraternity and is supporting many ideas of young individual researchers,
SME and large companies.
DeitY is already supporting the entire
value chain of electronics R&D activities in the country ranging
from the basic components to sophisticated product development. These
include development and deployment of indigenously developed medical
electronic devices in healthcare centres across country.
The call
for proposals will remain open till 10th March 2017 and applicants will
be able to submit the LoI anytime during this period. The submitted LoI
will be evaluated three times during this period with evaluation cycle
starting from 10th July 2016, 10th Nov 2016 & 10th March 2017.
Medical
electronics is a branch of electronics that deals with design,
implementation and use of electrical devices and equipment for medical
purposes such as research, examination, diagnosis, treatment, assistance
and care. Medical electronics utilizes field disciplines of both
electronics and biomedical. Portable biomedical electronic devices are
essential to move medical products from the hospital atmosphere to home,
and to move medical examination from the laboratory and offer one-
touch access to users. These devices offer secure access and enable both
patients and doctors to stay in touch with each other remotely. The
IIPME will be one of its kinds, which will directly target the
innovations in the medical electronics start-ups, SMEs and large
enterprises and will also help in generating the ideas to keep ready the
pipeline of new unmet medical innovations.
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