Recognizing the fact that many of the more innovative and impactful solutions to challenging medical problems are not coming from the interface of engineering and medicine, the Mehta Family Center for Engineering in Medicine brings practitioners closer to engineers and is a center for engineering medicine that acts as a catalyst for engineers and biomedical scientists to work together on challenging medical problems.
The Center leverages the existing engineering strength of IITK and the biomedical emphasis of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering Department faculty to enable a fast growth in the initial phase of the new "Center for Engineering in Medicine". This Center allows BSBE Department to focus on engineering solutions to medical problems while allowing it to grow in terms of personnel (facu1ty, post-doctoral fellows, students and project employees); academic programs (integrated PhD, MS by research and more minors for UG students) and infrastructure (new building).
Since the Center focuses on applying engineering principles for developing novel solutions in medicine, it also allows for the participation by faculty from other departments at IITK including other science and engineering departments. The Center focuses on three main areas - Regenerative Medicine, Molecu1ar Medicine and Engineering, and Digital Medicine. Since the establishment of the Center, the BSBE Department has conducted many seminars, workshops and conferences. Faculty have done some path breaking research and have received prestigious awards and honors.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, 2021
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Swarnajayanti Fellowship, 2021
The Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship, 2021
DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Fellowship
OPPI Scientist Award 2021
S. Ramachandran-National Bioscience Award 2021
Elected to The National Academy of Sciences, India 2021
| Name | Awarding Body |
|---|---|
| Prof. Arun Kumar Shukla | SERB, DST, Research Grant |
| Prof. Nitin Gupta | SERB, DST, Research Grant |
| Prof. Bushra Ateeq | SERB, DST, Research Grant |
| Prof. Bushra Ateeq | DBT, Research Grant |
| Prof. Sai Prasad Pydi | SERB, DST, Research Grant |
| Prof. Santosh Kumar Misra | DMSRDE, Research Grant |
| Prof. Arjun Ramakrishnan | DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance, Intermediate Fellowship |
| Prof. Arun Kumar Shukla | ICMR, Research Grant |
| Prof. Arun Kumar Shukla | DBT, Research Grant |
| Awardee | Awarding Body |
|---|---|
| Prof. Arun Kumar Shukla | DBT, Research Grant |
| Prof. Santosh Kumar Misra | DBT, Research Grant |
| Prof. Santosh Kumar Misra | ICMR, Research Grant |
| Prof. Sai Prasad Pydi | DBT/Wellcome Trust, India Alliance, Intermediate Fellowship. |
MFCEM felicitated Prof. Bushra Ateeq for The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2020 & The DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Senior Fellowship 2020; Prof. Arun Kumar Shukla for The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2021 and The DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Senior Fellowship 2020; Prof. Nitin Gupta for The Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2020 ; Prof. Jayandharan G. Rao for The DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Team Science Grant 2020; Prof. Dibyendu Kumar Das for The DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship 2020; Prof. Arjun Ramakrishnan for The DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship 2020, in the presence of Mr. Rahul Mehta, The Bhupat & Jyoti Mehta Family Foundation and Prof Shankar Subramaniam, UCSD, International Advisory Board MFCEM, and Prof. R Sankaramakrishnan, Head, Dept Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE), who participated virtually.
The MFCEM Dialogues is an interactive event that include a brief presentation aimed at a wide audience, followed by an extended interaction session with the speaker, covering new developments in the field and the speaker’s experiences.
The second event of the MFCEM Dialogues was held on the 28th February 2022 virtually with Prof. Sharad Ramanathan, Professor of Neurosciences and of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University; and Professor of Applied Physics and of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Harvard University. Prof Ramanathan gave an insightful talk on “Understanding Morphogenesis during early human development.” Prof. Ramanathan, obtained his Masters in Chemistry, from IIT Kanpur.
