Rapid prototyping facility —Fab opens at C-CAMP

Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), in Bengaluru, with support from National BioPharma Mission (NBM), has set up a national facility to specifically address the commercialisation gaps faced by Microfluidics technologies and medical devices developers in their idea-to-market journey. Inaugurated by Dr Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, the facility is a first-of-its-kind in India aimed at providing holistic design to pilot-scale production capabilities to entrepreneurs and innovators to enable faster product-to-market. The facility is envisaged to provide design and prototyping support to medtech startups in developing low-cost, rapid and point-of-care medical device solutions with applicability in healthcare, both human and animal health. It is also geared to support serological diagnostic devices, which could be a huge boost for India’s budding COVID-19 molecular diagnostics sector.