Published 17:22 IST, September 27th 2020

IIT Delhi & ILBS sign MoU to solve challenges in medical practice and health services

IIT Delhi and ILBS signed an MoU to establish ‘ILBS-IITD Collaborative Platform’ initiating wide-ranging collaborations involving academic, research, etc.

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Indian Institute of Techlogy (IIT) Delhi and Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) Delhi have signed an MoU called ‘ILBS-IITD Collaborative Platform’. agreement provides a platform to various collaborations that involve acemic, research, product, process and human resource development. main aim of agreement is to help in critical identification of problems faced by practicing doctors in metabolic and liver diseases, ranging from primary health center to tertiary care super-specialty hospitals and to initiate work jointly by engineering and medical teams for sustainable solutions. 

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agreement was signed by Professor V Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi and Dr SK Sarin, Director, ILBS, Delhi. Speaking about agreement, Director of ILBS, Dr. SK Sarin said that use of computational tools, AI and biosensors is of significant importance in real time as well as from a large amount of diagstic data. He ded that ‘Team ILBS’ has data of more than 200,000 liver patients and refore it is most suited for joint ventures with IIT Delhi.

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Prof V. Ramgopal Rao, Director of IIT Delhi termed agreement a mutually beneficial partnership between two eminent institutions. He furr said that development of specialized human resources in multidisciplinary aspects that will bridge engineering and medicine faculty to solve some of challenges faced by health sector in country is main objective of agreement. He ded that researchers from IIT Delhi will bring ir expertise on machine learning and AI techlogies in order to solve some crucial problems in area of liver and biliary medicine.

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As a part of agreement, re are various areas of collaboration, including, use of Artificial Intelligence in Liver & Biliary diseases, bio-sensor development computational biology and Big Data, material Sciences, liver Dialysis membranes and machines, 3D Bioprinting, bio-artificial Liver. It will also include processes like regenerative tissue growth and use of na-science in diagsis and effective delivery of drug. Lastly, agreement will also focus on applied principles and design concepts of engineering to healthcare and establishment of an Incubation Center at ILBS.

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17:22 IST, September 27th 2020