ICMR
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) designates the St John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore led by Prof Suman Rao (Dept of Neonatology) and Dr Prem K. Mony (Division of Epidemiology & Population Health) as an ICMR Collaborating Centre of Excellence [ICMR-CCoE] in recognition of the commendable achievements in biomedical research.
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The Indian Cardiovascular Research and Advocacy Group-2 (ICRAG-2).
ICMR-Centers for Advanced Research (CAR).
Division of Clinical Research and Training, St. John’s Research Institute has been recognised by The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) as Centre for Advanced Research (CAR) for the period 2024 to 2029 under the leadership of Dr. Denis Xavier as Principal Investigator. The study title is “Impact, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability of a synergistic, multipronged, customized, low-cost intervention package (IP) to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) among diverse populations across India.
St John’s leads a consortium of 7 leading Institutions across India in this project. The group is called the Indian Cardiovascular Research and Advocacy group (ICRAG-2).
We will undertake multiple projects (Systematic review, cross-sectional study, qualitative study and a cluster randomized trial) across India over 5 years at about 25 sites.
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Centre for Advanced Research (CAR) on Medical Devices Development, Characterization and Validation.
A Clinical Trials Approach.
In the medical devices segment, India has seen explosive growth, fuelled by the encouraging start-up ecosystem, availability of skilled resources, low-cost hardware/software and data/communication network and the Medical/health sector with plethora of problems waiting to being tapped with smart/ AI enabled solutions. However, there is a lack of facilities for unbiased characterization, clinical testing and validation hampering the development of medical devices in the country.
This proposed CAR will drive cutting-edge MedTech innovation and development within the medical/clinical environment interfacing with clinicians/patients and facilities at St. John’s Hospital and Research Institute. It will provide an interface for iterative design thinking, developmental change, hardware/software creation/modification etc to drive research within the medical devices domain.
This program will create an enabling environment for novel device/ tools development through interface with clinicians, patients, and facilities to drive innovation and co-generation of IP and also evaluate medical devices through the use of standardized protocols, characterization, testing and validation.
This will also help build capacity for hardware and software fabrication/ modification, test instrumentation, physiological simulation in hardware etc within St. Johns.