ICMR Nominates AIIMS-Bhubaneswar As Advanced Centre For Clinical Trials in Eastern Region

Bhubaneswar: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has nominated AIIMS, here as ‘Advanced Centre for Clinical Trials’ in the eastern region.

The ICMR had earlier called for an expression of interest from AIIMS Bhubaneswar to apply for it.

Dr Sujit Kumar Tripathy, additional professor of Orthopaedics Department of the institute was the lead applicant with faculty members Dr Rituparno Maiti, Dr Anand Srinivasan, Dr Rashmi Das, Dr Rashmi Mohanty Dr Arvind Singh, Dr Ramadass Balamurugan and Dr Saroj Majumdar.

Once the process is over, it will play a pivotal role for AIIMS to fight situation like COVID pandemic.

The prestigious medical institute has been able to establish other centres for research like microbiome, mycology, brain bank, molecular cancer research facility and in medical education, according to an AIIMS release.