GE Healthcare has funded a three year $150,000 project to develop affordable medical technologies in the areas of cardiovascular care, oncology and maternal and child healthcare. The project will identify, assess and evaluate appropriate technology solutions and then, create equipment accordingly. Professor Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam, Head, Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC),...
National Instruments funds Medical Device Development
High-end medical care remains unaffordable to most Indians. A joint initiative of IIT Madras and the Government of India's Department of Biotechnology, the Healthcare Technology Innovation Center hopes to develop indigenous medical technology that is affordable and accessible. HTIC signed a memorandum of understanding with National Instruments, a U.S. company...
Yahoo Opens "Big Data" Research Lab at IIT Madras
Yahoo! India's R&D unit has set up a grid computing lab at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in Chennai, India to facilitate research on “big data” and cloud computing. This cluster of high-end servers at the lab will allow researchers to access web-scale data and conduct research on big...
Two Indian-Americans Honored by India
On October 18, 2010, the Dean of MIT's School of Engineering, Dr. Subra Suresh was confirmed as the new head of America's National Science Foundation. With 1,700 employees and a $7 billion budget, the federal agency funds over 20 percent of all government research and development in the United States. ...