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IIT, Frontier Lifeline sign MoU for medical biotech course

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— Photo: K. V. Srinivasan

COLLABORATION:S. Santhakumar (left) Dean, IIT Madras and Dr. K M Cherian (right), Frontier Life Line exchanging an MoU between IIT Madras & FLL in Chennai on Thursday. V. G. Idichandy, Director, IIT, Madras, looks on.

CHENNAI: The Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Frontier Lifeline for offering an M. Tech programme in medical biotechnology. The pact was signed on Thursday by S. Santha Kumar, Dean, IIT-M and Dr .K M. Cherian, chairman and CEO, Frontier Lifeline. Talking to mediapersons after signing the MoU, Dr. Cherian said that this was the first time that the IIT-M had tied up with a hospital for offering a User-Oriented Programme. New areas in medical training were opening up and the pact would lead to developing academic expertise in medical biotechnology, he said. The course includes hands-on training at Frontier Lifeline. Sponsorships and a stipend of Rs. 8,000 would be given to all students.

The curriculum would cover genetics, biomedical instrumentation, regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, proteomics, tissue culture and drug design. The course duration was three years and admissions would be based on a nationwide entrance test. The basic qualification to be eligible for the course would be M.B.B.S/B.Pharm/M.Sc/B.V.Sc./B.Tech/B.E in biotechnology. Twenty students would be admitted initially and the course would start in August, Professor Santha Kumar said. Students would be selected by the IIT.

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