This Centre of Excellence (CoE) has been created under the aegis of the Indian Council of Medical Research
(ICMR). The Center was inauguratedlast Thursday by Prof V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi, and Dr Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS, New Delhi.
The mandate of the Centre is to encourage comprehensive research on an identified problem, to generate new knowledge and improve the holistic understanding of neurological diseases such as stroke, and providing assistive technology solutions for patients’ rehabilitation.
CARE-DAT is established with the vision- to design novel technological solutions, therapeutic protocols and clinical validation for the solutions in Neuro-assistive technology and thereby providing commercial-ready technology under the “Make in India” initiative.
Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CBME), a joint venture of both the institutionsalready established at the IIT Delhi. This new CoE is an outcome of active research for the last seven years by the joint collaboration of faculty from the CBME and the Department of Neurology at AIIMS, New Delhi. This collaboration has already registered its landmark with the products that have been developed and designed during the joint initiative. Already five patents have been filed and qualitycollaborative research has been jointly published.
Professor V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi said, “This new CoE, CARE-DAT, will open new avenues in design, development and clinical validation of novel products for Neuro Assistive Technologies in Stroke Rehabilitation. IIT Delhi and AIIMS faculty currently collaborate on a variety of projects and technologies.We are looking forward tomorecollaboration between AIIMS and IIT Delhi,which will benefit the society and result in IP creation, technology transfers and incubation of startups.”
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Prof. M.V.Padma Srivastava,Head, Department of Neurology and Principal Investigator for this CoE from AIIMS, New Delhi added, “Stroke is leading cause of high mortality and morbidity in the world, and in India we are having a high number of patient and economic burden for rehabilitation of these patients. Innovative solutions that will be developed under this initiative will be really important in framing the future of Neuro-Assistive Technologies in India.”
“We displayed two of the products developed at IIT Delhi, which isbeing clinically validated at AIIMS, New Delhi at the inaugural function. One of these products, robotic exoskeleton for rehabilitation of upper limb, is in the phase-3 clinical trial, which will be part of this newly established CoE activity in next 2 years. We envision that more products and solutions will be developed in the future and this Center will be one of the pioneer facilities to encourage research in assistive technologies,”added Prof. Amit Mehndiratta, CoE’s Principal Investigator from IIT Delhi.
