Tag Archives: Grand Challenges Canada

Study shows importance of engaging pharmacists for fighting TB, reducing misuse of antibiotics

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Editor

Montreal (Canada): As a result of the overuse or misuse of antibiotics, antimicrobial resistant superbugs represent an extraordinary threat to global health. This threat is particularly great in India, the world’s largest consumer of antibiotics and the country facing the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world.

Posted in Public Health, RESEARCH | Tagged Antibiotics, Dr Jishnu Das, Dr Madhukar Pai, Dr Peter Singer, Dr Srinath Satyanarayana, Grand Challenges Canada, Institute for Socio-Economic Research, McGill University, TB | Leave a comment

This doctor has all the ingredients to be a MedTech Entrepreneur

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Editor

Picture this. You are a doctor who thoroughly enjoys treating his patients but somewhere yearns to innovate something that can make diagnosis and treatment easier as well as improve the lives of his patients.

Posted in FEATURES | Tagged Affordable Innovation in MedTech, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Biotech Ignition Grant, CAMTech Jugaadathon, Dr Jagdish Chaturvedi, Echoing Green's Fellowship, Grand Challenges Canada, Hackathon, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, InnAccel, Medical Innovator, MedTech Entrepreneur, Stanford India Biodesign, Wellcome Trust | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Grand Challenges Canada

Study shows importance of engaging pharmacists for fighting TB, reducing misuse of antibiotics

This doctor has all the ingredients to be a MedTech Entrepreneur

Interview: Stem cells have huge potential but must be handled with care