West, IIT Palakkad partner for medtech research

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. has recently announced its partnership with TECHNIC – a Technology Innovation Foundation of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad which focuses on assisting innovation and incubation for budding entrepreneurs, to build a Medtech Research Center of Excellence. The aim of building a distinctive Medtech Research Center of Excellence is to enable access to healthcare and medical technology by developing an ecosystem of academia, hospitals, and the industry to promote local entrepreneurship. To achieve this objective, West’s medical expertise with IIT’s unique incubation model will be combined to advance research and development in medical technology. West will work with IIT Palakkad’s TECHIN in the area of medical technology. The engagement will be carried out by West’s Digital Technology Centre (DTC) in Bengaluru which will be directly working with TECHIN’s team throughout this partnership.