AICTEInterInstitutional Biomedical Innovations Programme launched
The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (CCAMP) launched the AICTEInterInstitutional Biomedical Innovations Programme (IBIP) to promote interdisciplinary education, research and innovations between medical and engineering institutions.
An MoU has been signed between CCAMP and the All India Council for Technical Education in this regard. The programme is the collective endeavour of the two to promote accessible, affordable and quality healthcare to all, making health and lives better.
CCAMP said that the objective is to facilitate engineering and medical graduates, postgraduates and faculty members to jointly work on challenges from the medical domain. Beside imparting multidisciplinary education and research, the initiative will also prompt and prepare them for entrepreneurship particularly in the healthcare sector. It will also offer a structured Bio Entrepreneurship Didactic course online.
AICTE Chairman T.G. Sitharam said the collaboration between engineering and medical students will foster creativity, innovation, and a deeper understanding of the complex challenges in healthcare. “By leveraging their complementary skills and knowledge, students from both disciplines can develop impactful solutions that improve patient care and advance medicine,” he said.
Under IBIP, AICTE will provide a grantinaid of ₹10 lakh against a matching contribution from the institution to develop and implement at least 10 ideas and innovations to address the challenges posed by the healthcare domain. All the institutions selected for AICTEIBIP will become part of a network of all sanctioned projects to learn from each other, collaborate and enhance their performance.
CCAMP, through its flagship programme will mentor, mediate, support AICTEIBIP and hold an event to inform faculty and students of medical and engineering institutes of the benefits of the programme.