NUI GALWAY FORGES NEW LINK WITH INDIA

Date Published: 06-Nov-2012

NUI Galway has forged a major new link with four scientific institutions in India.The University has signed memorandums of collaboration between its Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials and four medical and scientific companies.These include the Materials Research Centre at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, the Indian Institutes of Technology in Kanpur and New Delhi and the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Science and Technology in Trivandrum.NUI Galway's NFB conducts research on biomaterials, developing technologies for use in clinical applications in orthopaedics, soft tissue healing and neural and cardiovascular regeneration.The new alliance will see the intstitutes working closely together and will facilitate the establishment of student and faculty exchange as well as the collaboration and co-development of biomaterials and tissue engineering related projects.Director of the NFB at NUI Galway, Professor Abhey Pandit says the collaboration will put key research on an international stage.