MIT Bioengineering hosts 3rd International Conference on Recent Trends in Bioengineering (ICRTB 2020)
5 Feb 2020, Pune :- A two day International Conference on Recent trends in Bioengineering (ICRTB 2020) was organized at MIT School of Bioengineering Sciences and Research (MITBIO) at MIT-ADT University campus in Loni Kalbhor, Pune on 31st January and 1st February 2020. The 3rd international conference was attended by 300 odd delegates from various states of the subcontinent. The conference was inaugurated by Honourable Vishwanath Karad, Founder MAEERS MIT group of institutes, Guest of Honour Dr. Jeremy Simpson, UCD, Ireland, Dr. Rustam Mody, Senior VP, Lupin Ltd and Prof. Vinayak Ghaisas, Director MIT Bioengineering. The chief guest for the event was Padma Vibhushan Dr. K. H. Sancheti, Director, Sancheti Institute of Orthopaedics, his talk stressed on the need for development of biomedical devices suitable for the Indian population. The conference was convened by, Dr. Renu Vyas, Head of the School who stated that the objective of the conference was to bring together experts from interdisciplinary fields for cross pollination of ideas.
The first day of the conference brought together experts from academia and research like Dr. Nathan Johnson, Harvard Medical School, USA, Dr. Dasmit Singh Khokar, Senior Paediatric Surgeon, Dr. Neelam Vaidya Founder & CEO, Viridis Chem Inc, USA, Dr. Bhavik Sawhney, Springer Nature and Dr. Binay Panda Scientific Director, Ganit Labs, Bengaluru. The second day was graced by international speakers and industry luminaries, Dr. Justin Dauwels NTU, Singapore, Dr. Jee Loon Foo, NUS, Singapore and Prof. Gaitis Kasims Eurofins Genomics, Germany, Dr. Vibhor Saraswat VP, Zydus Biologics and Dr. Arun Jamkar, Persistent Systems, Pune. There were talks by eminent scientists like Dr. Sangeeta Kale DIAT, Prof. Amita Ravikumar IBB, SPPU, Dr. Ashok P. Giri, CSIR-NCL, Dr. Mohan R. Wani NCCS and Dr. Hemant K. Gautam IGIB, New Delhi.
The major highlight of the conference was the industry expo and the inauguration of laboratories in environmental bioengineering, biosensors, molecular Simulations, biomedical imaging, microcontroller and data analytics. The annual flagship event also witnessed presentation of poster and oral presentations by students and research fellows from all over India and abroad. The selected papers will be published by Springer and American Scientific Publishers. The conference turned out to be major platform for students to interact with industry experts, research scientists and esteemed academicians from the broad field of Bioengineering.
