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Director of the National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE), Chennai, a imperishable institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Manoj Murhekar connected Friday (November 14, 2025) inaugurated a Biomedical Research and Artificial Intelligence Network (BRAIN) Lab designed by the SRM University-A.P. to enactment the improvement and enhancement of nationalist healthcare, research, and biomedical engineering.
“This laboratory has tremendous imaginable to assistance nationalist healthcare. The exertion that enables the aboriginal detection, monitoring, and attraction of Parkinson’s illness volition beryllium immensely beneficial,” said Mr. Murhekar, adding “It represents a important measurement guardant successful our efforts arsenic academicians and researchers to make a affirmative interaction successful society.”
The laboratory houses 3 specialised units – the Biomechanics unit, the Biosignals unit, and the Computational facility, which are AI-enabled and equipped with state-of-the-art machinery and modern infrastructure, including a Gait Analysis Workstation, a 16-channel EEG, ECG, EMG, and PCG system; thermal cameras; and an Electrospinning portion that connection a broad appraisal of neurological, physiotherapy treatments, and sports show related wellness issues.
The laboratory has funded projects and aesculapian collaborations, including objective trials for Parkinson’s disease, oral crab diagnostics, and different biomedical challenges. The BRIAN Lab has institutions of nationalist and planetary repute arsenic its patrons, including RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Anusandhan National Research Foundation, Indra Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakam, Tamil Nadu and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Mangalgiri among others.
Co-ordinator of the BRAIN Lab K.A. Sunitha said that the laboratory volition connection a hands-on learning acquisition and “our students volition tackle real-world healthcare challenges.”
The University Vice Chancellor I/C Ch. Satish, Registrar R. Premkumar, Dean-Research Ranjit Thapa and a big of different module and guests were contiguous connected the occasion.
