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MDDI posted an article on Biosense, a company started by Darshan Nayak, a 2009 SIB Fellow, and Myshkin Ingawale. The article, entitled Wanted: FDA App Enforcement, talks about the app that Biosense has written that will test urine samples.

The Times of India, in discussing lowcost healthcare technologies, highlighted the Stanford-India Biodesign program. The article entitled Med in India features the low cost splint designed by the 2nd batch of SIB fellows.

SIB Alumni Pushkar Ingale (2010) and Siddhartha Joshi (2012) have joined forces with Laerdel to open a User Centered Lab in Pune. Sonakshi Pandey, a 2011 SIB intern, will also join the design team.

January 26, 2013 M.K. Bhan was awarded the Padma Bhushan, a high civilian honor given in India. Dr. Bhan, former Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology in the Government of India, was the principal architect, along with Dr. Paul Yock, Dr. Rajiv Doshi, and Dr. Balram Bhargava of the Stanford-India Biodesign program.

January 18, 2013 Anurag Mairal, Faculty of Stanford-India Biodesign, spoke at the IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on Point-of-Care Healthcare Technologies.

January 2013 SIB 5 (Siraj S Bagwan, Jagdish Chaturvedi, Siddhartha Joshi and Jonathan D. Pillai) received first prize in the IIT Kharagpur Empresario B Plan competition for their liver biopsy device.

December 2012 Jugaad to Innovation blog reviewed the summit and SIB program

December 2012 The 6th Annual Medtech Summit was held in Delhi, India on December 21, 2012.

November 2012 Neobreathe, a company based on technology coming out of the SIB program, has obtained an exclusive worldwide license from the Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India to develop and commercialize their neonatal resuscitation technology.

November 2012 We are pleased to announce that a second license has been obtained for a device from SIB. HLL of India has licensed the Limb Immobilization device invented in 2009 by Darshan Nayak, Pulin Raje, Rahul Ribeiro and Asokan Thondiyath. HLL Lifecare Limited is a Government of India enterprise under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. The license agreement was executed on November 7, 2012 in Delhi, India.

November 2012 Nish Chasmawala, SIB 2008, was highlighted in an article entitled LifeSaving Tools, Made in India.

October 2012 BioSpectrum reports on Consure Medical.

October 2012 Mridusmita Choudhury, SIB 2011, was part of Medtronic's first skill based volunteerism pilot in September and spent three weeks at Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialty Center and Madras Diabetes Research Foundation helping with a Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and process improvement project. As part of the final presentation, she showcased the Biodesign principle, and how it could be instituted in improving their current and future patient management processes. In addition, she conducted a Biodesign workshop for the top process people in the group including IT, patient management and lab managers.

October 2012 Stanford-India Biodesign is used as a case study in frugal innovation in a paper out of the UK by Nesta: India Frugal Innovation Report. They also highlighted the Jaipur Knee, developed at Stanford by Mechanical Engineering students, in the study.

September 2012 Balram Bhargava, Executive Director SIB in India, was part of an event in London discussing Frugal Future: Lessons from India's Innovation System. The conference director indicated: "We have had great feedback on the event, and several people have already told me they were inspired by your work." Dr. Bhargava also participated in FICCI Heal 2012.

September 2012 We have selected the 2013 fellows for SIB: Congratulations to Anirudh Chaturvedi, Prashant Jha and Balaji Teegal

September 2012 We are pleased to announce the formation of the first company from the Stanford-India Biodesign Program. Consure Medical Ltd. has received Series A funding from the India Innovation Fund, Indian Angel Network and India Venture Partners. Consure, which was founded in 2011 by Nishith Chasmawala and Amit Sharma - , first year fellows of the SIB Program, has developed a low-cost product for fecal incontinence, which affects more than 16 million patients in India and over 100 million patients worldwide. See press: Economic Times, VC Circle, HindustanTimes, BioSpectrum and MedTech Insider India.

August 2012 Anurag Mairal and Raj Doshi visited GE in Bangalore and gave a talk to a group of 150 engineers there about Biodesign, the process and the SIB Fellowship.

July 2012 Chinmay Doedhar, SIB fellow from 2011, is featured in a story entitled Pune Lad's 'Surgical Precision' in India's Daily News & Analysis (DNA.)

June 2012 Applications are now closed for the SIB fellowship. We received over 500 applications this year - a record!

May 2012 We're pleased to announce the latest interns for the Stanford India Biodesign Internship-2012 program.
1. Aanan Khurma Electronics Engineer
2. Chetan Anabur Doctor, pursuing MMST
3. Neeraj Kumar CSE Engineer, M.Des
4. Deepali M.Tech-Biomedical
5. Ekta Sachdev Pursuing M.Des
6. Rahul Das Dual Degree - Mechanical Engineer
7. Sneha Venkat Biomedical Engineer,IPR Certification
8. Saurabh Bag Product Designer
9. Ripunjay Chachan Observer, pursuing Biomedical Engineering
Congrats to all.

May 2012 Ayesha Chaudhary and Avijit Bansal wrote an article on SIB for Frost & Sullivan.

May 2012 SIB Project from the 3rd year Fellows received a Center for Innovation in Global Health seed grant. The project, “Newborn hearing screening in the developing world – toward implementation of a novel device and innovative model of service delivery”, has been awarded $50,000.

March 2012 We are now accepting applications for the 2013 SIB Fellowship. Apply now - deadline is May 18, 2012 (Has been extended to June 1, 2012).

March 2012 We are offering an Internship this year - deadline to apply is March 25, 2012.

March 2012 Balram Bhargava, Executive Director, Stanford-India Biodesign at AIIMS in India, was interviewed for the BBC about Innovation in healthcare. You can hear the interview on their website.

March 2012 We have executed an exclusive worldwide license to commercialize the FI technology between BCIL (the Indian government Dept of Biotechnology's technology transfer organization) and Consure Medical Private Limited. The license will serve as a template for future products emanating from the SIB collaboration. Consure is founded on a device that was invented in the first year of the SIB program.

Feb 2012 Balram Bhargava, Executive Director, Stanford-India Biodesign at AIIMS in India, was interviewed for British radio about Innovation in healthcare.

November 2011 Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer for the USA, spoke about the Stanford-India Biodesign at the World Economic Forum during a 'Special Conversation with Sam Pitroda and Aneesh Chopra.' Discussion about SIB is at 40:53 in the video.

Aug 2011 Anurag Mairal and Raj Doshi spoke August 29, 2011 at the Commonwealth Club in SF about Medtech in India and the SIB program.

April 2012 Stanford-India Biodesign is featured on the website of the Office of International Affairs at Stanford.

March 2012 Chinmay Deodhar and Pushkar Ingale (SIB Fellows) conducted a one-day biodesign workshop the Maharasthtra Institute of Technology's school of design for their Design for Entrepreneurship class.

March 2012 SIB Fellows Siddhartha Joshi and Jagdish Chaturvedi are mentioned on the Huffington Post website.

March 2012 Raj Doshi is featured in Forbes India Innovation Special (see page 88.)

Januar, 2012 The Economic Times quotes Balram Bhargava about India being the center of low cost medical technology innovation.

Jan 2012 Stanford-India Biodesign Program is proud to announce the 2012 Stanford-India Biodesign Fellows: Siraj S Bagwan; Jagdish Chaturvedi; Siddhartha Joshi; and Jonathan D. Pillai.

Dec 2011 The 5th Annual Medtech Summit was held in Delhi, India on December 5, 2011.

December 2011 India Blogger, Rishikesha Krishnan, talks about SIB and its value to the emerging medtech industry in India.

December 2011 Needle-free Anemia Test to be available soon. Company co-founder is our own Darshan Nayak.

October 16, 2011 IndianMedtechInsider features an article about Stanford-India Biodesign entitled: Stanford India Biodesign Leads Way to Development of Affordable Medical Devices.

August 2011 SIB program highlighted in article "Stanford Finds Hints For The Future Of U.S. Medical Design", In India in CO Design.

August 1, 2011 Asokan Thondiyath, SIB Fellow 2009 and faculty member IIT Chennai, has introduced the "Medical Device Innovation" course as an elective course for biodesign students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai.

Jun 2011 Our recent Webinar to provide information about the Fellowship was a huge success. See the presentation slides and video if you missed it.

Members from SIB participate in the May 5-6 iNEMI's Medical Electronics Workshop according to EMSnow.

The Hindustan Times reported on our Fellowship on April 19, 2011.

Mar 2011 We're pleased to announce our selection for the Stanford-India Biodesign Interns for 2011. They are Prashant Soni, Megha Agrawal, Nitin Aggarwal, Pragun Goyal, Reshma Maurya, Chandini Kabra, Sonakshi Pandey, Vishal Agale, Ramakanteshwara Rao

On February 9, 2011 Anurag Mairal will be presenting to the NIH at the Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences. He'll be speaking under the 'Framework Programs for Global Health Signature Innovations Initiative' about C-IDEA and Biodesign's role in developing low cost technologies for global needs.

Members of the student innovation programme for biomedical engineering students of Gujarat visited the AIIMS SIB Centre on January 9, 2011. Read the blog entry.

December, 2010, Balram Bhargava, Executive Director, SIB India, has been appointed as one of 4 Executive Board members from the Indian side for the IndoUS endowment by The US Embassy and the Minister for Science and Technology. This board was created to foster technology, research and development related entrepreneurial activities intended to lead to commercialization of R & D for the mutual benefit of both countries.

December 10, 11, 2010 we held our 4th Annual Indian Medtech Summit held in Delhi, India. This year's event was the biggest ever - over 200 people attended including representatives from Industry, Academia, Government, NGO and the Venture Community. We were honored to have Padma Vibhushan Dr. K Kasturirangan as a keynote speaker.

Ritu Kamal, 2010 Stanford-India Biodesign Fellow, will speak at TEDx Gateway in Mumbai, India on October 30, 2010.

Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. Government, visited the SIB Centre at AIIMS on September 13, 2010. Attendees to the visit included M.K. Bhan, Secretary of Biotechnology, Dr. Mitra, Executive Director, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and Prof. R.C.Deka, Director, AIIMS among other notables.

Announcing our Interns for Spring, 2010: Nisha Munjal, Physician, Gaurav Kulkarni, Product Designer, Prashant Borkar, Mechanical Engineer and Industrial Designer, Sourav Mishra, Biomedical Engineer.

Livemint.com reports on the SIB program in an article entitled "Shock to the System."

SIB was highlighted in Biotech news - the news arm of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. The program was featured in the Editor's letter (pdf), and in articles on Biotech (pdf) by Anurag Mairal and SIB (pdf) by Raj Doshi.

Our ad in the Hindustan Times announces the 2011 Fellowship application process is open.

Welcome to our Interns for Spring, 2010: Nisha Munjal, Physician, Gaurav Kulkarni, Product Designer, Prashant Borkar, Mechanical Engineer and Industrial Designer, Sourav Mishra, Biomedical Engineer. They were selected out of 353 applicants.

Congratulations to Nish Chasmawala, who was chosen as an India TR35 recipient by MIT. These are the top 35 innovators under 35 in India. Read more.

Welcome to Gita Handa, Pushkar Ingale, Ritu Kamal and Nitin Sisodia who recently arrived at Stanford for their 2010 SIB Fellowship.

The 3rd Annual India Medtech Summit was held in December, 2009 in New Delhi. This invitation-only event drew over 100 members of the medtech community. Final agenda now available.

Congratulations to Srinivas Jaggu, 2008 Stanford-India Biodesign Fellow, recently seleced as a TED India Fellow.

SIB is featured prominently in the latest Connect, the newsletter from the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum.

The Jaipur Knee, designed by students in Tom Andriacchi's class, has been selected as one of Time Magazine's Top 50 Inventions for 2009. Congratulations to the students: Ayo Roberts, Joel Sadler, Angelo Szychowski, Eric Thorsell and Ellis Garai (2009 Biodesign Fellow).

The 3rd Annual India Medtech Summit was held in December, 2009 in New Delhi. This invitation-only event drew over 100 members of the medtech community. Final agenda now available.

Congratulations to Srinivas Jaggu, 2008 Stanford-India Biodesign Fellow, recently seleced as a TED India Fellow.

SIB is featured prominently in the latest Connect, the newsletter from the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum.

The Government of India's Year End Review for 2009 featured the Stanford-India Biodesign Program.

Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) recently cited the Stanford-India Biodesign program as evidence that India is focusing on medtech in a big way, in Focus, the newsletter of ATSE.

Times of India features 'Bright Ideas that Work' and highlights an invention from Stanford-India Biodesign: IntraOz.

The Times of India reports that Stanford-India Biodesign took first place in the India Innovation Pioneers Challenge 2009

Stanford Report featured Stanford Biodesign and Stanford-India Biodesign in a story on multidisciplinary programs.

Chalo Campus announces the Stanford-India Biodesign fellowship

India EDU news.net AIIMS, Stanford Univ join hands for scholarship programme

Hindustan Times AIIMS ties up with Stanford, IIT to improve medical tech

MedIndia.com India’s Premier Hospital to Offer Fellowship Programme

MedIndia.com India to Go in for Foreign Tie-ups to Boost Research in Biotech

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