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India’s 1st medical tech institute, Kalam Institute of Health Technology at AMTZ gets 100% financial support from DBT
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Our Bureau, Mumbai
July 27 , 2017
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The Kalam Institute of Health Technology (KIHT), India’s first institute
dedicated to medical technology located at Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone
(AMTZ), Visakhapatnam, has received 100 per cent financial support from
the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
Named after India’s 11th
President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, KIHT has been set up with the aim to
identify critical gaps in medical technology and suggest the government
to do focused spending on such areas and help bridge the gap between
academic research and industrial market access, by auctioning of patents
and prototypes available with government funded academic research
institutions.
KIHT shall broadly function on Innovation &
Market Access, Enabling Technology Transfer, and Research &
Development Support.
Placed within AMTZ, KIHT is amidst direct
access to academia and industry. KIHT approval comes under the aegis of
the launch of the National Biopharma Mission – an Industry-Academia
Collaborative for accelerating discovery research to early development
for biopharmaceuticals. The National Biopharma programme includes an
investment of USD 125 million from the Government of India and an equal
contribution as a loan from World Bank and is anticipated to be a game
changer for the Indian biopharmaceutical and medical devices industry.
KIHT
shall support Department of Bio-technology in areas of medical
technology. KIHT – a registered society has Dr R Chidambaram, Principal
Scientific Advisor to Government of India as its President; Secretary,
Department of Bio-technology as Chairperson and Dr. Jitendar Sharma as
Executive Director. It is a first Institute of its kind with Association
of Indian Medical Device Industry (AIMED) on its governing board. KIHT
is a jewel on the crown of AMTZ which is one of the fastest growing
Government of India supported projects in Andhra Pradesh. AMTZ has
recently received the most Innovative MedTech Zone Award.
Located
within AMTZ campus, India’s first state-of-the-art medical devices
manufacturing park, KIHT will have direct access to academia and
industry.
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