IIT Kanpur Opens A New Engineering In Medicine Centre

The Mehta Family Centre for Engineering in Medicine (MFCEM) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has been established to encourage breakthroughs in biomedical engineering advances. Rahul Mehta of the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta Family Foundation (MFF) helped to establish the facility. During the introduction of the institution, a two-day inaugural symposium was also organised.

According to an IIT Kanpur release, the conference covered nanomedicine and genome editing-based techniques for disease therapeutics, as well as the use of digital medicine in deciphering how the brain is reprogrammed under pathological situations such as Alzheimer's.

The symposium also provided a platform for students to showcase their research work across the three focus areas of MFCEM through lightning talks, posters and interactions with the distinguished speakers. 

MFCEM is advancing the objective of developing creative and long-term engineering solutions to medical concerns. The centre builds on IIT Kanpur's current strength by bringing together faculty from several engineering and scientific disciplines, including biological sciences and bioengineering (BSBE), computer science and engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry, and cognitive science.