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India’s 1st Medical Tech Institute, Kalam
Institute Of Health Technology At AMTZ Gets 100% Financial Support From DBT
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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