Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mehta Family Foundation (MFF), Houston, Texas, USA, to determine the ‘Jyoti and Bhupat Mehta School of Health Sciences and Technology.’ The college goals to begin educational actions throughout the present educational yr. It goals to supply Master’s and PhD programmes in Health Sciences and Technology and increase analysis in therapeutics, diagnostics, stem cells, public well being, and well being knowledge analytics.
The MoU was just about signed on 14th May 2022. Present within the occasion had been Ajay Ok. Sood, professor, principal scientific adviser to the Government of India, Rajiv I. Modi, chairman, Board of Governors, IIT Guwahati, and chairman and managing director, Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Rahul Mehta, CEO, Mehta Family Foundation, Ananth Grama, Rajiv Ok. Gupta, Shankar Subramaniam, T. G. Sitharam, Director, IIT Guwahati, S. Ok. Kakoty, Deputy Director, IIT Guwahati, and different deans and school members of IIT Guwahati.
“The School will also bring in the budding academic leaders in the closest proximity of world-class educationists, scientists, physicians, technologists, and entrepreneurs, which may catalyse high-impact research, diminish expensive biomedical imports, and engender an academic curriculum that substantiates the vision of a sustainable society,” Sood mentioned.
According to the IIT, the multi-disciplinary programme on Health Sciences and Technology at IIT Guwahati has been designed based mostly on National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.The new programme goals to supply coaching in each theoretical and sensible views to college students.
“The impact of such translational education and research is rather far-reaching since they will not only fulfil the demands of having sufficiently qualified postgraduates in the service of the nation but also catalyse the research output matching the global standards,” Sitharam mentioned.
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