Ideas which are innovative and have potential to translate into tools for eyecare are set to get a boost at the Srujana Centre launched at the Hyderabad-based LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI).

Innovators will have facilities and access to work and interact with clinicians and researchers at the Centre, which is perhaps one of the first such in the hospital sector in the country. It is the result of an ongoing programme between the Eye Institute and the emerging world’s special interest group at the MIT Media Lab in the US, which began in 2013. LVP MITra, the collaborative platform will be the core to the ensuing efforts. The objective is to develop cost-effective solutions, which could impact 5 billion worldwide. Work so far has been directed towards generating disruptive ideas for screening refractive errors, visual fields in children, eye problems in diabetics and eye responses in cases of neurological diseases.

The Centre, which will be funded adequately for five years by IT majorCyient will serve as an inter-disciplinary platform for engineers, medical professionals, designers and researchers to build the next generation of eyecare technologies with potential to help billions of people in India and worldwide, according to Virender Sangwan, Director of the new Centre.

During the past few years, the joint work with MITra has resulted in the development of half a dozen prototypes, which are into trials and two patents have been filed. Cyient has promised to provide access to the facilities at its world-class innovation centre to the developers at the centre, Sangwan told BusinessLine . The facility was inaugurated by KT Rama Rao, Minister for IT, Industries, Telangana on Monday.

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