Researchers at India's National Institute for Research in Reproductive and Child Health in partnership with I.I.T. Bombay have created placenta-on-a-chip devices to enable the study of drug safety during pregnancy. Led by Professors Abhijit Majumder, and Debjani Paul, along with Dr. Deepak Modi, the placenta-on-a-chip (POC) devices have an environment...
Indian-American Raj Subramaniam now CEO of FedEx
Rajesh Subramaniam, an Indian-American IIT-Bombay graduate, is now the president and CEO of Memphis, Tennessee-based FedEx Express. Subramaniam is a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University, and also has an MBA from the University of Texas in Austin. He has been with FedEx for more than 27 years,...
ISRO Places 8 Satellites in Two Different Orbits
India's Space Research Organization has successfully launched 8 satellites in two different orbits in a first ever payload launch of the kind. Mashable reports that the entire mission took 25 days since the team experienced many unprecedented challenges. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle -C35 had to be re-ignited a second...
Localizing to Specific Customer Needs Spells Success for Cummins India
Located 42 miles from Pune in the state of Maharashtra is a village of rice growers, who for many decades had to trek to a neighboring village to get their raw rice de-husked because their village did not have the power supply to run the dehusking machine. Enter Cummins Inc.,...
Biden visits IIT Bombay
Before a roundtable discussion with students in the Seismology Lab at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Vice President Joe Biden talked with young women conducting nanotechnology research and geochemistry and geochronology experiments. He commended them on “the incredible work they’re doing in a whole range of areas, from devices...