IIT-H students unveil medical devices, products

Smart Baby vitals monitor and Arm re-trainers are among the first products unveiled at the Centre for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CfHE), Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad. (IIT-Hyd).These products were created by first batch of graduating fellows during their one year fellowships at the CfHE. The inventions were displayed during graduation pitch ceremony held at the IIT-Hyd campus. A device for peritoneal dialysis, an exoskeleton for helping those with immobilised legs were among the other products unveiled at the graduation pitc

IIT Hyderabad bags CodeVita’s first Price

TCS CodeVita, is a contest for engineering and science students to experience coding and to sharpen their programming skills through real-life computing practices

Create an ecosystem for design thinking: Anil Kakodkar

“Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are the largest exporters in India and they have several problems like capital investment and technology upgradation. They do not know whom to approach to address their problems,” Dr. Kakodkar, who is also Chairman, Rajiv Gandhi Science and Technology Commission, said

INSA award for IIT-H professor

This research, through which he was able to engineer a biodegradable nano-system for photothermal therapy of cancer and proved its in-vivo biodegradability, has got immense translational potential and can be used to treat cancer in an affordable way with minimal side effects

Padma Shri award has bestowed more responsibility, says B.V.R. Mohan Reddy

A prominent face of the IT industry and former chairman of Nasscom, B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, who has been selected for the Padma Shri, said the award meant more amount of responsibility to shoulder for the industry. ..

Science parks, YunTech and IIT Hyderabad sign MOU in Hsinchu

The MOU was signed to promote the internationalization of academic, educational, and high-technological research in Taiwan and India. It will also enhance the interaction between India's talent and human resources and Taiwan's technology sector

Convocation attire procured from Pochampally

For the second consecutive year, the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H) has bought the convocation attire from Pochampally in Yadadri-Bhonagir district

IIT-H team develops a novel drug delivery system

A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad have developed a novel drug-delivery system that releases a commonly used pain killer called diclofenac sodium at the target site in a controlled fashion such that there is constant release of the drug for as long as 12 hours. The drug has low half-life of one–two hours and so constant release for up to 12 hours becomes particularly significant. To prevent burst or quick release of the drug, the team has fabricated a transdermal patch containing the drug and made the patch highly water repelling, so as to ensure that the highly water-soluble drug is released in a slow and sustained fashion. The patch was developed by mixing the drug with cellulose acetate bio-polymer and electrospun in the form of a nanofabric. Ordinary nylon mesh with different pore sizes (50, 100 and 200 microns) was used at the site of the collector and this allowed the nanofibres to get deposited with micron-sized gaps in between. The transdermal patch loaded with the pain killer can be used for treating local muscular pain. The researchers plan to develop transdermal patch prototypes and test them on animals

IIT-Hyderabad registers 60% rise in preplacement offers this year

HYDERABAD: Pre-placement offers (PPOs) witnessed a remarkable rise at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad with as many as 47 this year as against 18 last year. In a press release issued by the IIT-Hyderabad on Tuesday, as many as 424 students from different disciplines and departments have registered to appear for the 2017-18 campus placements, the first phase of which is scheduled to commence on December 3 and conclude on December 22. Subsequently, the second phase shall commence from the first week of January 2018