Affordable Healthcare Technologies in Sensing, Drug Delivery and Therapy

Our lab at IIT Bombay is well recognized for his translation research in the field of Biosensors and affordable Point-of-care diagnostic technologies for rural and maternal healthcare. Our team has already commercialized three point-of-care diagnostic devices such as SYNC- Bluetooth integrated glucometer for diabetes management; UChek- routine urine analysis system; CareMother- a smartphone-based platform to integrate doctors and pregnant women to screen and identify risk-prone pregnancies for maternal and neonatal healthcare in the rural areas. We have also clinically validated and transferred numerous healthcare technologies to the companies such as Smartsense™- affordable and portable blood electrolyte analyzer with integrated blood plasma centrifuge; Uridsa™- a low-cost, portable colourimetric deice to diagnose kidney-related disorders; ElectroFinder™- Portable and rapid detection device to sodium and potassium level in critical care patients. This has been possible by extensive support from BIRAC, DBT, ICMR, and DST translational schemes. We strongly believe in bringing a positive change in India's underdeveloped healthcare sector via developing affordable healthcare technologies with the collaboration of industries and generating funds via transferring technologies for commercialization. We have mentored 25+ Medtech start-ups in the last five years and helped them to secure grants to develop innovative solutions for healthcare applications.

About the Speaker:
Prof. Rohit Srivastava is well recognized for his translation research in the field of Biosensors and affordable Point-of-care diagnostic technologies for rural and maternal healthcare. The Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the INAE Fellowship, Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship, NASI Fellowship, FRSB, FRSC, the Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Sciences, DBT Tata Innovation Fellowship Award, the DBT Process, and Product Commercialization Award, NASI Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award, the VASVIK Award, the DBT IYBA Award, and DBT National Bioscience Award are examples of Prof Srivastava’s accomplishments in the last 15 years. In his career at IIT Bombay, Prof. Srivastava has graduated 35+ Ph.D. students, 80+ M.Tech students and supervised around 100 research interns. He has published in 200+ reputed journals publications with an h-index of 37, has been granted 24 Indian and US patents, and additionally filed about 100+ patents, trademarks, and IDFs. He has also mentored 25+ Medtech start-ups in the last ten years and helped them to secure grants and develop innovative solutions for healthcare.