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NIPER Ahmedabad to be developed as testing centre for medical device industry as per govt mandate
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Shardul Nautiyal, Mumbai
May 25 , 2017
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The National Institute for Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)
Ahmedabad is planning to develop itself as a testing centre for medical
device industry as part of the proposal sent to the Department of
Pharmaceuticals (DoP). This would further be clubbed with the first
upcoming medical device testing lab of the country at Vadodara,
according to a source close to the development.
Plans to develop
NIPER as a testing hub will be further strengthened with the Centre’s
mandate to set up a National Centre for Medical Devices (NCMD) in the
same campus to provide the much needed skilled preparedness to the
medical device sector.
“To realise the potential of Gujarat as a
medical device hub of the country which currently has the maximum number
of medical device units in the country, Government has identified NIPER
Ahmedabad to be developed as a testing hub for medical devices and also
as a human resource centre for the development of skilled manpower for
the industry,” says Dr Kiran Kalia, director, NIPER, Ahmedabad,
NIPER
Ahmedabad is also planning to collaborate with leading medical devices
manufacturers nationally and internationally to develop skilled manpower
for the industry who will also be equipped to handle testing
modalities. “This will drastically reduce our dependence on foreign
companies for doing testing of indigenous medical devices,” she added
High
quality and skilled manpower is one of the critical requirements in the
pharma sector today. This has gained further impetus as government of
India is planning to expand NIPERs across the country to nurture
manpower and hence boost domestic manufacturing of medical devices in
the country. More than 70 per cent of medical devices are imported as of
today which has impacted the development of the domestic industry.
As
per official sources, a total of 17 MoUs were signed between seven
NIPERs and pharma industry for academia industry linkages recently.
Academia-industry linkage is a significant development as one of the
critical factors in building innovation ecosystem for medical devices
industry.
DoP has identified that academia-industry linkage as a
basic requirement for translating research into development
(commercialisation) and innovation; and also to fix accountability among
the educational institutions. NIPERs are institutions of national
importance set up under NIPER Act, 1998 on the lines of IITs.
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