Will be jointly working to develop cheap and rapid detection kit for screening of COVID-19 infection
Adamas University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, on April 30, 2020, with Ecura Labs (Registered Trademark ‘Biogenick Life’). Ecura Labs works primarily in the space of AI-based digital health application for disease prognosis assessment and management. Adamas University and Ecura Labs will be jointly working to develop a cheap and rapid detection kit for the screening of COVID-19 infection.
This detection kit will be convenient, rapid, highly sensitive, and extremely suitable for large-scale screening of COVID-19 as compared with the current existing kits in the market. The results can be obtained within 15 minutes using this kit. This kit will also help to reduce the exposure risk of healthcare workers and facilitate early diagnosis and exclusion of suspicious cases.
The MoU was signed by Arup Kumar Sil, Registrar, and Dr Amalesh Mukhopadhaya, Chairman, Centre for Research and Innovation, Adamas University and Abhijnan Basu, Director, and Dr Animikh Ray, Chief Scientific Officer from Ecura Labs. The School of Life Science & Biotechnology at Adamas University will work actively with a team of researchers from Ecura Labs to develop the COVID-19 kit. Dr Rudra Prasad Saha, Associate Dean, School of Life Science & Biotechnology, and Dr Anwesha Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology from Adamas University will participate in the joint development of the rapid detection kit. The work is going to start in May 2020.
On this development Prof Samit Ray, Chancellor, Adamas University said, “It is a moment of pride for us. Our professors and whole team is doing a wonderful job. Adamas University is among those top notch universities which has taken every possible measure to support the current situation. Apart from contributing in the relief funds, Adamas has offered its land for isolation centres where 1000 patients are quarantined. They are also provided necessary essentials like food and water free of cost. All these initiatives are a part of our property #AdamasCares which is completely focussed on taking best possible measures to support the nation during this pandemic. We pray that we all quickly overcome the situation and get back to our normal life.”