The B Barooah Cancer Institute (BBCI) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, have signed an agreement to boost research in the area of healthcare in general, and cancer in particular.
According to a press release issued by the BBCI, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed after a virtual meeting between BBCI Director Dr Amal Chandra Kataki and IIT Guwahati Director Prof T G Sitharam along with other faculties from both institutes.
Kataki said higher incidence of cancers of gallbladder, oesophagus, nasopharynx, lung, and stomach among both men and women of North East India could not solely be explained by existing evidence available in the western literature.
“Our aim should be to conduct region-specific research with focus on environmental and dietary practices prevalent in the region,” he said.
He said there was an untapped potential for researchers to collaborate and find new biomarkers that could predict outcomes to treatment, design and develop low-cost instruments, and discover advanced techniques of cancer drug delivery.
North East Centre for Biological Sciences and Healthcare Engineering (NECBH) was established at IIT-Guwahati in 2018 with a vision to foster the development of biological research in the region, Prof Sitharam said.
The mission of NECBH-outreach is to raise the quality of research in biological sciences and healthcare engineering in the entire North-Eastern India, he said.
The outreach programme intends to provide an exposure and training to the researchers in the NE region to the latest advances in modern day biological research and healthcare engineering, the IIT Guwahati Director added.
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