27/08/2019
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations
On 21st Aug 2019 BITS Pilani, a well-renowned educational institution all across the globe signed a technology transfer contract with Alicorn Medical Private Limited. The Tech transfer was on InstaDerm, a Wound healing treatment product. Wound healing is one of the biggest health problem of today. An estimated 10% to 20% of the populace in developing countries will experience a chronic wound during their lifetime. Dr. Aniruddha Roy's lab at Department of Pharmacy, BITS-Pilani have developed an in-situ forming bio-polymeric scaffold for the treatment of severe wound patients. The uniqueness of InstaDerm is its ability to form a film in-situ, that means at the wound site. The idea is to apply two solutions at the wound area and it will form a bioprotective porous scaffold within minutes at the wound site. Most of the currently available products offer only mechanical support and does not potentiate wound healing at the cellular level or prevent microbial infection. InstaDerm has very strong tissue regenerating property along with antibacterial activity. It also has excellent haemostatic and protein absorption activity, which will help stop bleeding.
Alicorn Medical Private Limited is a biotech company focusing on developing advanced biomaterials from natural tissue for providing innovative solutions in medical, veterinary and dental wound management applications. They were very interested in commercialization of InstaDerm. Recently on 21st Auguest, 2019 Alicorn Medical Private Limited signed the technology transfer agreement with BITS-Pilani. Three officials from Alicorn, Arun Jyothi S P [Co-Founder, Managing Director - Operations], Sunith K.S [CEO/Co-Founder], Sirajudeen Assis [Co-Founder, Managing Director - Production] came to BITS-Pilani for the official signing. The signatory from BITS was Mr. Ernest Samuel Ratnakumar J (Registrar, BITS). Prof. Ashoke Kumar Sarkar [Director, Pilani Campus], Prof. Ranendra N Saha [Director, Dubai Campus], Prof. P Yogeeswari [Professor In Charge, Centre for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE)], Prof. Navneet Gupta [Associate Dean : Sponsored Research and Consultancy], Prof. Jitendra Panwar [Associate Dean : Academic-Graduate Studies and Research], Prof. Sangeeta Sharma [Publications and Media Relations], Dr Satyendra Sharma [ Faculty In Charge-CIIE]Dr Atish Paul [Head of the Dept, Dept. of Pharmacy], Dr. Aniruddha Roy were also present in the occasion.
