NI extends technology support to HTIC under Planet NI program
Under its Planet NI initiative, National Instruments has announced signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC), a joint initiative of IIT Madras and Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology. The MoU will facilitate long-term partnership between NI and HTIC in the design and development of new, affordable, high-impact medical devices by HTIC based on the NI Platform for the Indian market.
Dr Mohanasankar, Head of HTIC said, NI’s design and development platforms will allow us to shorten the time from idea to prototype, and quickly move the device for field testing and validation, which is crucial in med-tech R&D.
Jayaram Pillai, MD, National Instruments India, Russia and Arabia said With this MoU, National Instruments will support HTIC’s initiatives with NI’s Graphical System Design platform for product development and large scale deployment of affordable healthcare devices for emerging countries.
Planet NI, where NI stands for Nurturing Innovation, is a National Instruments program designed to empower engineers and students in developing countries to achieve economic prosperity and sustainable development through access to National Instruments technology. NI is committed to nurturing local innovation and entrepreneurship and, through Planet NI, the company is making engineering tools affordable, accessible, and relevant to groups focused on improving the socioeconomic development of their communities.
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