Medicine, Technology fusion is way forward: AIIMS Delhi Director

While addressing a gathering at PGIMER, AIIMS Delhi Director said, the fusion between medicine and technology is the way forward. 

M Srinivas, Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi said, under the 'Make in India' campaign, the fusion between medicine and technology is the way forward.

"These endeavours towards research are a step forward towards collaboration, towards bringing in fusion between medical and engineering, which is commendable as we have not seen these initiatives much in India," he said while addressing a gathering on the occasion of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research's (PGIMER) 9th Annual Research Day.

Complimenting PGIMER, Mr Srinivas said, "The kind of research that is on display, with less resources, without scientists and despite the huge workload is appreciable. It is a great thing that the past and present luminaries have brought this institute to this level of clinical and research experience and the quality and the standards is clearly visible in the outcome of the research," as reported by NDTV.

Tamar Ghosh, CEO of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London, encouraged the young researchers to apply for funding with her organisation. "Whether the research project be in a lab, a field-based project with communities or policy-based project, whatever it is, it does not matter what disease area, it is in the area of health. The point is we want to stimulate the new leaders and the new innovators by taking that first plunge doing their first projects," she said.

Professor Rajeev Ahuja, Director of IIT, Ropar, emphasised research as the mother of innovation as he said, "You cannot be an innovative country until your research is very strong. The most innovative countries in the world are small nordic countries which are in the top 10 in innovation. However, in India, we are below 40. Though we have made a lot of progress, there is still a long way to go," he said.

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