The Mehta Family Center for Engineering in Medicine

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.


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Prof. Arun Kumar Shukla

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, 2021
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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Prof. Nitin Gupta

Swarnajayanti Fellowship, 2021

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Prof. Sai Pyadi

The Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship, 2021
DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Fellowship

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Prof. Bushra Ateeq

OPPI Scientist Award 2021
S. Ramachandran-National Bioscience Award 2021
Elected to The National Academy of Sciences, India 2021




Elected to The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore 75 under 50: Scientists Shaping Today's India




List of Grants/Fellowships in 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

List of Grants/Fellowships

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.

Events

  • Session on Engineering in Medicine
  • September 29th, 2021
  • Speaker: Prof. Himisha Beltran, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
  • Domain: Molecular medicine:
  • Title: Advances in Precision Cancer Care
  • Speaker: Prof. Jennifer Elisseeff, Johns Hopkins Medicine,USA
  • Domain: Regenerative medicine
  • Title: The Future of Biomaterials design for Regenerative Medicine
  • Speaker: Prof. Nitish Thakor, Johns Hopkins Medicine, USA.
  • Domain: Digital medicine
  • Title: Frontiers Neuro Engineering: from Neuroscience to Translation
  • * Prof. Nitish Thakor is also member of the MFCEM international Advisory Board
  • Panel Discussion: The road forward for MFCEM and BSBE
  • Moderator: Prof. Shankar Subramaniam, University of California San Diego, USA, Distinguished Visiting Faculty at BSBE, and member of the MFCEM international Advisory Board
  • Guest of Honor: Mr. Rahul Mehta of The Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta Family Foundation.

Felicitation event by The Mehta Family Centre for Engineering in Medicine

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.


MFCEM Dialogues

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.


MFCEM Dialogues, Series #2

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.