Pre-clinical and Clinical Translation

 

Bikramjitā€™s translational research activities, over the last one decade, are the outcome of intense collaboration with a number of clinicians, mostly through funded research projects or dissertations. These research programs involved a number of pre-clinical and clinical studies, planned and accomplished with the significant clinical insights or research contributions from clinicians / bio-engineering scientists in different hospitals/ medical institutions, across India. In particular, his group is benefited by clinicians in defining unmet clinical needs and clinical prospective analysis. The past and ongoing collaborations involved 6 orthopedic surgeons, 3 prosthodontists, 7 neurosurgeons / neuroscientists and 2 ENT surgeons or urologists. In addition, 7 dental surgeons were trained or mentored by Bikramjit in the last one decade.

Clinical studyAcademic/Medical Institutions
20 pre-clinical studies on biomaterials in rabbit/mouse/rat models, either completed/in-progress (2006 - 2022)IISc, Bangalore; SCTIMST, Trivandrum; CSIR-IITR; AIIMS
Two clinical studies using patient-specific implants to treat decompressive
- craniectomy (2017 - 2022)
Ramaiah Memorial Hospital, Bangalore; DMIMS, Wardha
Three pilot clinical studies to treat edentulism using indigenous dental implants (2022 - present)Ramaiah Univ. Appl. Sc., Bangalore; DMIMS, Wardha; KGMU, Lucknow
One study on urological neobladder using human urine samples from multiple patients (2021-22)Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram