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The Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) has launched the Centre for Space Medicine and Research (CSMR) and the Centre for Skills and Simulation Lab (CSSL) astatine its Biomedical Technology Wing, Poojappura.
The Institute, successful collaboration with the Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Bengaluru, has besides launched a caller post-doctoral fellowship (PDF) programme successful Bioastronautics. This is the archetypal clip that a Bioastronautics people catering to quality abstraction medicine is being offered astatine the SCTIMST.
V. Narayanan, Secretary, Department of Space, inaugurated the facilities and besides delivered a impermanent lecture connected “Indian Space Research Organisation: The Milestones and the Future”. Dinesh Kumar Singh, the Director of HSFC, ISRO, was besides present.
Speaking connected the occasion, Dr. Narayanan said that the MoU signed betwixt ISRO and SCTIMST was a historical milestone for some institutions.
The recently established laboratory facilities and the fellowship programme successful Bioastronautics person been a cardinal result of the model MoU, contributing to India’s Gaganyaan mission.
These initiatives item the shared committedness of some institutions to advancing India’s quality spaceflight programme done innovative research, simulation-based grooming and the mentation of aboriginal experts successful abstraction medicine, it was pointed out.
