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Technology > Health & Medicine
21 January 2021
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), has entered into technology transfer agreements with Pune-based Biorad Medisys for two biomedical implant devices - an Atrial Septal Defect Occluder and an Intracranial Flow Diverter Stents.
The country’s first indigenous device for correcting ballooning of brain arteries and device for healing of heart hole has been developed by the institute in collaboration with National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore (CSIR-NAL) using superelastic NiTiNOL alloys.
CSTIMST is an autonomous institute of the Department of Science & Technology (DST), under the Technical Research Centre (TRC),
Dr K Jayakumar, director, SCTIMST, and Jitendra Hedge, managing director, Biorad Medisys, signed the technology transfer agreements in the presence of Dr Jitendra J Jadhav, director, CSIR- NAL, through an online meeting early this week.