Research Activities

                      The faculty of the department is actively involving in research activities in collaboration with various organizations such as EMRI, and hospitals like DDH &RC, NIMS, CARE, Apollo etc. for the development of a number of medical instruments for immediate use of doctors such as bedside monitors, blood-gas analyzers and auto analyzers of corporate hospitals. The staff has designed and developed computer-assisted prescription system (CAPS) that caters to the needs of doctors at primary health centers and district hospitals, helping them in the diagnosis and treatment of about 100 common diseases that afflict the national populace. The faculty is awarded with patent for “cryoshoe” RF renal ablation system.
            The Department has been engaged in research and consultancy projects. It received research grants from various government agencies such as AICTE; UGC, DST, TEQIP (Phase I, II & III) etc., The Department established a Biomedical Instrumentation centre (BMIC) to cater to the needs of medical profession. The faculty members of the department are also active, effective and acknowledged contributors to UPE project of the UGC. The faculty members of the department are engaged in the following areas of research.

  1. GPS-GPRS based emergency patient transportation system and evaluation of physiological parameters.
  2. Deep Brain Stimulation as a therapy of Parkinson’s disease.
  3. EOG signal analysis for the diagnosis of neurological disorders.
  4. Driver Drowsiness Detection and alerting system.
  5. Hyperthermia application of Nano materials for cancer therapy.
  6. Non invasive beat to beat BP monitoring system by using PWTT.
  7. Wireless Sensor Network.
  8. Brain Computer Interfacing.
  9. Gait Analysis of Parkinson’s patients.

The research contribution made by the faculty has been commendable in terms of the publications and patents applied. 

Research/Consultancy Projects:

S.No

Name of Principal Investigator

Funding Agency

From

To

Title of the Project

Grant
(Rs. in Lakhs)

1.

Mr. M.Venkateswara Rao  &
Mr. M.Srinivas

DST-PURSE

2017

2020

Gait Analysis in Parkinson’s disease

15.00

2.

Dr. M.Malini

DST-PURSE

2017

2020

Analysis of Fetal Heart rate variability

4.0

3.

Mr. D.Suman

DST-PURSE

2017

2020

A holistic therapeutic approach of Yoga and Meditation for the Hypertension- A clinical study on the Autonomic Control system

4.0

4.

Mr. K.E.Ch.Vidya Sagar
& 
Mrs. G.Shravanya

DST-PURSE

2017

2020

Design and development of A Multi biological parameters based integrated system

4.0

5.

Prof. M. Malini

MRP, UGC

2016

2020

Wireless Data Acquisition system for vital sign monitoring

2.64

6.

Mr. D.Suman

MRP, UGC

2016

2020

Design and Development of a Fuzzy Expert system for the mitigation of drowsy driving of the heavy vehicles

5.0

7.

Mr. K.E.Ch.Vidyasagar

MRP, UGC

2016

2020

Design and Development of automatic epilepsy detection and classification system

3.8

8.

Mr. D.Suman

Seed Grant Under TEQIP-II

2015

2016

Mitigation of drowsy driving through ANN based Blink features from the EOG Data Acquisition system

1.00

9.

Mr. M. Venkateswara Rao  & 
Prof. M.Malini

UPE Status of UGC

2013

2018

Hyperthermia application of Nano materials for cancer Therapy

73.50

Patents Granted:

S.No.

Patents of the department

Granted Year

1

“Mobile Controlled multi drug infusion system” By Mr. K.E.Ch. Vidyasagar, & Dr. Sudesh Sivarasu,
Patent No.: 304847 for 20 years.

2018

2

“Mobile Controlled multi drug delivery system” By Mr. K.E.Ch. Vidyasagar, & Dr. Sudesh Sivarasu,
Patent No.: 288750 for 20 years.

2017

Patents Applied:

S. No.

Patents of the department

1

 “A Portable device for Automated cradle movement” 
Ref No: 201741007378, dated: 03-02-2017

2

“Portable Non-invasive multi-wavelength photo plethysmographic measuring technique for Hemoglobin"
Ref No: 201641039799, dated: 22-11-2016

3

“Cryo probe used in Cardiac surgery” 
Ref No: 6317/CHE/2014, dated:16/12/2014

4

“Syncope detection emergency messaging” by Mr.Aravind, Ms.Soundarya and Mr. M.Venkateswara Rao 
Ref No: 1639/CHE/2009

5

Tarunasri, a Former student(2008) has done her project work on Enzyme Field Effect Transfer (ENFET) For Estimation of Triglycerides Using Magnetic Nano particles at CCMB under Dr. Madhusudan Rao, Deputy Director and got a patent  Ref. No. H01R31/00

6

“ Intelligent system for monitoring and balancing of battery voltage”
Ref. No: 201741047449 A, dated: 05/01/2018.
M/S Amara raja Batteries Limited- R.Narayan, M.Venkateswarulu, M.Venkateswara Rao,  M.Jagadish

Consultancy:

  1. Biomedical Instrumentation Centre (BMIC) under the Department of Biomedical Engineering in 1994.
  2. Calibration equipment was procured under TEQIP grant in 2016
  3. It meets the following objectives:
    1. Calibration and testing of the Electro-Medical Equipment
    2. Maintain Electro-Medical Equipment already supplied to the Hospitals.
    3. Hospital Design, Planning, Procurement of Medical Equipment.
  4. BMIC has executed an order on Operation Theatre table control board, repair of PCBs in Thumbay Hospitals, and generated an amount of  Rs. 1.8 lakhs IRG.
  5. BMIC has executed an order on NABH Biomedical Equipments calibration in Lotus Hospitals and Rise Hospitals,  Hyderabad for an amount of Rs. 2.35 lakhs.
  6. Internal Revenue generated in 2018-19 is Rs. 4.15 Lakh.
  7. Mr. M.Venkateswara Rao is a Technical Advisor and Mentor for BIG Grant (DBT) projects, worth 50 Lakhs each to two Startup Companies, viz., Chrogene Aarogyam Biotech pvt. Ltd. and CYONICS cyto solutions
  8. Mr. M.Venkateswara Rao is associated with industry as a consultant to M/S. Amara raja Batteries Limited.