CSIO gets laboratory for developing medical implants

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 24

An Innovative Additive Research and Manufacturing Laboratory (IARM) has been set up at the Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) here.

The laboratory has all facilities related to design, manufacturing and testing of patient-specific orthopaedic and maxillofacial implants. Applications of additive manufacturing associated with patient-specific implants, surgical models, surgical tools, custom-made prosthetics, tissue engineering and organ printing are continuously evolving in the medical field.

Patient-specific implants developed in IARM have been successfully implanted at prestigious institutes such as PGIMER and AIIMS, New Delhi, during trials.

The laboratory was inaugurated by Padma Shri awardee Arun Firodia. He said there was a need for creating awareness about scientific and technical capabilities of the Central Scientific Instruments Organisation so that the industry in India and abroad can make use of the technologies developed for uplifting the quality of life. He encouraged the scientists of the CSIO to understand the challenges faced by common people of the country, especially in the villages, and come up with innovations to help them.

He said the CSIO can help the government establish small laboratories in each state so as to focus and solve the problems particular to that state.

Earlier, Prof RK Sinha, Director, CSIO, highlighted the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s role in country’s growth in the past several decades. He also talked about state-of-the-art infrastructure that the CSIO possesses in the domain of optics and photonics by giving a glimpse of some of the societal and strategic technologies which the Central Scientific Instruments Organisation has developed.

On the occasion, children of the CSIO staff were awarded cash prizes for their outstanding performances in various national and school-level competitions in academics and sports. Mementoes were given to members of the CSIO family on completion of the 25 years of service to the Council and those who had retired from the service in the past one year.