Imperial welcomed the High Commissioner of India, His Excellency Mr Vikram Ok. Doraiswami, to the College to debate deepening ties with the nation.

The College has been rising analysis connections with India in quite a few areas equivalent to sustainability, water administration and public well being. 

The High Commissioner met college students and teachers at the College to listen to about a number of the inspiring tasks happening with companions in India and the way the College is strengthening ties throughout analysis, schooling and innovation.

Imperial’s President Hugh Brady welcomed the High Commissioner to the College and reiterated the College’s ambitions for deeper ties with India.

The High Commissioner was joined on the go to by Mr Amish Tripathi, the Minister for Schooling and Tradition on the High Fee of India and Second Secretary Mr Shashi Bushan.

They met with Imperial teachers together with Professor Ajit Lalvani, from the Nationwide Coronary heart & Lung Institute, and a number of other of the College’s Indian college students.

Subsequent technology photo voltaic expertise 

Professor James Durant, from the Division of Chemistry, launched the High Commissioner to Imperial’s Transition to Zero Air pollution initiative, which goals to encourage basic modifications in areas equivalent to the best way useful resource is exploited, how we produce meals and power, and can assist mitigate the affect of air air pollution on folks’s well being. 

Professor Durant is the Imperial lead for the longstanding UK-India SUNRISE programme. SUNRISE goals to handle world power poverty by way of creating subsequent technology photo voltaic applied sciences. Imperial teachers are a part of a global consortium working with trade companions and native communities to construct 5 solar-powered constructing demonstrators in rural India utilizing native manufacturing provide chains. Constructing on this programme, Imperial teachers within the College of Pure Sciences have began work with companions on the Indian Institute of Science to proceed to discover battery units for renewable electrical energy    

Illness modelling 

Imperial’s College of Public Well being has been collaborating with the Indian Council of Medical Analysis (ICMR) in assist of India’s COVID-19 response.  
 
Lecturers from the Jameel Institute, together with Professor Katharina Hauck and Professor Nimalan Arinaminpathy, have supported scientists throughout the ICMR, to carry out modelling evaluation to handle key questions confronted by public well being authorities within the nation. For instance, early in India’s vaccination drive towards COVID-19 – the biggest on the planet – Imperial collaborated with the ICMR to offer modelling evaluation informing the prioritisation of threat teams. 

A serious focus of Professor Arinaminpathy workforce’s analysis is within the management of human tuberculosis (TB) in high-burden international locations. They work carefully with India’s Nationwide Tuberculosis Elimination Programme, contributing mathematical fashions to assist inform intervention planning to fulfill India’s formidable objectives for TB elimination. They’re additionally working with a number of companions together with Indian Institute of Know-how Bombay, the Ministry of Well being and the Gates Basis on a brand new partnership for TB modelling coaching.

 The High Commissioner additionally visited Imperial’s Vitality Demonstrator the place Dr Phil Clemow defined how the analysis and educating facility gives researchers and college students with state-of-the-art examples of power community management applied sciences.

Imperial and India 

Within the final 5 years Imperial teachers co-authored simply over 1,200 analysis publications with companions at greater than 300 Indian establishments. 

Analysis companions embrace the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Christian Medical College, Indian Institute of Know-how Bombay, Indian Institute of Know-how Kharagpur, the Bhaba Atomic Analysis Centre and the Tata Institute of Basic Analysis. 
 
There are at present 700 Indian college students on the College, and in India there’s a neighborhood of greater than 3,000 alumni. 
 
In 2022, Imperial formalised its longstanding connections with the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc) by way of a joint Analysis and Schooling Seed Fund. Co-funded tasks are specializing in areas together with quantum physics, water administration and air air pollution.

Imperial additionally partnered with the George Institute for World Well being India to ascertain a £10M NIHR World Well being Centre for Non-Communicable Illness and Environmental Change. The Centre launched in November 2022 and is predicated in Delhi. 

Final yr Imperial hosted the UK-India Science and Innovation Partnerships dialogue with the earlier High Commissioner Ms Gaitri Issar Kumar

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