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Translational med dept at AIIMS to bridge research-heathcare gap – ET HealthWorld

Bhopal: AIIMS Bhopal has started translational medicine department with an aim to bridging the gap between bench-side research and bed-side health care. Faculty for the same has been appointed, according to AIIMS Bhopal officials.

The new wing aims to get closer to research wherein, for instant transplant patients do not have to wait for years for the perfect donor or burn victims come out of the hospital without disfigured scars. That is imagining a brave new spectrum to research, patient care and development of drugs.

Faculty of department of translational medicine centre at AIIMS Bhopal includes, a dedicated team of seven multidisciplinary faculty members well trained in renowned national and international institutions with strong exposure in cutting edge biomedical research.

For starters, the Department of Translational Medicine Centre (TMC) is in the early stages of establishment. This centre aims to connect basic scientific discoveries with the needs of physicians and their patients. Currently they are working on the whole genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis using Next generation sequencing to strengthen and promote genomic research. In addition, the faculty members are in different stages of discussion to develop collaboration with the Departments of Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and TB, Radiation Oncology, Paediatric surgery, Neurosurgery, Virology and Microbiology, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Biochemistry at AIIMS, Bhopal for biomedical research implementation.

It includes, Dr Murali M, Dr Megha K Pandey, Dr Syrpailyne Wankhar, Dr Ashwin A Raut, Dr Rupinder K Kanwar, Dr Neha Arya and Dr Jitender Singh.

Dr HarshaVardhan, former Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, during his visit at AIIMS Bhopal campus on March 13 2021, was apprised of the establishment of TMC.

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