IIT Hyderabad launches B.Tech in Biomedical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad has launched a new B.Tech program in Biomedical Engineering. With this program, the Institute aims to train world-class biomedical engineers in next-generation healthcare technologies and prepare them to work at the frontiers of healthcare innovations in the deep-tech industry or academia.

The curriculum of this new course is designed around 4 verticals- bio-imaging/sensing, bio-mechanics, bio-materials & bio-intelligence / AI. They rest on a single horizontal - core training in physiology, anatomy, systems science, mathematics, circuits, instrumentation, mechanics, and algorithms.

IIT Director B S Murty, Director said, “IIT Hyderabad has taken a bold step towards Athma Nirbhar Bharat through Athma Viswaas, by developing a strong BTech program in Biomedical Engineering thereby inculcating biomedical education in young minds from the grassroots, with the BTech program for the first time among all IITs. We strongly believe that this program will help in bringing out indigenous medical devices of high quality



that serve all sections of the country.”

The biomedical engineers who will be trained under IIT, Hyderabad’s new courses will be able to design medical devices, develop 3D imagers and microscopes, crunch mountains of healthcare data, recognize patterns in health and disease, simulate and predict the spread of epidemics, create brain-spinal systems in silico, move prosthetics with your thoughts, 3D print a cornea, bone or skin, develop nano-particles to fight tumors or burn them down with ultrasound, design implants, regenerate organs from stem cells, create biosensors on a chip, model impact on body, craft algorithms that mimic our body and brain and much more.

Meanwhile, candidates who have cleared the JEE Advanced 2020 examination will have 23 IITs where they can apply for admission that includes IIT Hyderabad as well. As per IIT Delhi Director, Dr. V Ramgopal Rao, this year more than 16000 seats are available for admissions in 23 IITs across India. A total of 36,497 male and 6,707 women candidates have qualified the IIT admission test this year.