GRANTS, PUBLICATIONS & PATENTS
GRANTS, PUBLICATIONS & PATENTS
Extramural grants:
- Faculty from JIPMER have received several grants in the past year from ICMR, DBT, DHR funding and many international collaborations as Principal investigators and Co-investigators.
- Currently around 189 projects are on-going with a total sanctioned amount of 38 crores funded by different funding agencies.
| Funding source | Projects | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| ICMR | 81 | 25,95,34,883 |
| DBT, DST | 12 | 108,020,818 |
| NIH and other US grants | 09 | 113,322,189 |
| Ministry of Health & programs | 06 | 190,563,290 |
| DHR | 05 | 67,696,497 |
| SERB | 05 | 1,590,528 |
| JAANA | 04 | 2,997,969 |
| BIRAC | 03 | 38,693,580 |
| WHO | 02 | 3,129,382 |
| Other Agencies | 62 | 94,001,494 |
| Total | 189 | 89,38,61,630 |
- Of these, 55 new projects have been mapped in SFACTs till 31/03/2024.
- Total funds received from the various funding agencies during the current financial Year 2023-24 (covering the period from 04.2023 to 31.03.2024) and mapped in SFACTS is Rs 25.39 crores.
| Funding source | Projects | Amount (INR) |
|---|---|---|
| ICMR | 74 | 236685176 |
| DBT, DST | 12 | 108020818 |
| NIH and other US grants | 9 | 112827266 |
| Ministry of Health & programs | 6 | 190563290 |
| DHR | 5 | 65206920 |
| SERB | 5 | 15551528 |
| JAANA | 4 | 2997969 |
| BIRAC | 3 | 38693580 |
| WHO | 2 | 3129382 |
| Other agencies | 58 | 88172424 |
| Total | 178 | 86,18,48,352 |
Intramural grants:
- The institute has sanctioned intramural grant of about 1.98 crores to faculty and junior researchers for carrying out research projects in their area of interest in 2023-24.
| Student group | Upper limit | No. of projects | Funds |
| Faculty |
| 5 | 500880 |
| PhD | Rs. 7.5 lakh | 4 | 1053786 |
| DM/MCh | Rs. 1.5 lakh | 18 | 2285145 |
| MD/MS | Rs. 1.5 lakh | 106 | 14632733 |
| MSc, MPH, etc | Rs. 0.5 lakh | 62 | 1350298 |
| TOTAL |
| 195 | 1,98,22,842 |
- Two new grants have been introduced this year - Competitive Intramural Research Grants for Faculty and Early-Career Intramural Research Grants for younger Faculty support high-quality, innovative research ideas.
- Undergraduate students conduct research under the supervision of faculty members. A sizeable number of undergraduate students get research studentship grants from ICMR annually – 36 students for the year 2022-23.
- Around 26 students received awards under the Golden Jubilee - Short Term Research Award for Undergraduate Students (GJ-STRAUS) for the year 2023-24.
Publications by JIPMER Faculty:
The faculty of JIPMER publish a substantial number of research papers every year. The number of publications is one of the metrics by which research can be quantified and the increase in the number indicates the positive trend. Nearly 1054 scientific publications were brought out by the faculty during the year 2022-23 (figures for the year 2023-24 under compilation).
Innovation And Development Projects:
JIPMER has filed 12 patent applications at Indian Patent Office, Chennai, of which six have been granted and the rest are under examination. Presently, the firm Altacit Global, Chennai, has been deployed as a consultant for filing patent applications and following up on the processes therein for the grant of a patent.
| Sl. No | Patent Application | Patent number & Date of patent | Name of the Inventor | Project Title |
| 1 | 201741005888 | 505713; 20.02.2017 | Dr. Dinesh Kumar S | Castroviejo extender |
| 2 | 201741012916 | 511290; 11.04.2017 | Dr. Arun Alexander | Hinged eyeless needle for Trans-cartilaginous sutures |
| 3 | 201741016702 | 470570; 12.05.2017 | Dr. Shashi Ahuja | Novel use of Optical Coherence Tomography |
| 4 | 201741027767 | 426995; 04.08.2017 | Dr. Barath Jagadisan | Spiral Interlocking Threaded (SILT) internal bolster |
| 5 | 201741035126 | 482426; 04.10.2017 | Dr. Lenin Babu | Linepub device to identify the integrity of inner tube of Bain''s circuit |
| 6 | 202041049056 | 431589; 10.11.2020 | Dr. Sunil K. Narayan | Biodegradable nerve conduit and method thereof |
Notable Projects
- Indian Clinical Trial and Education Network (In-TENT): An initiative to build a network of Research Institutes with a goal of providing evidence based, robust and culturally sensitive solutions to urgent health problems, in a reasonable time frame, by conducting large multi-centric clinical trials.
- Clinical trial network for hospital-based trials in Oncology (Led by JIPMER)
- Health technology assessment hub funded by DHR
- Establishment of network of laboratories for management of epidemics and national calamities
- Establishment of DHR-ICMR advanced molecular oncology diagnostic services (DIAMONDS)
- Regional Prospective Observational Research for Tuberculosis (RePORT India Phase II – Common Protocol) and other Indo-US collaborative TB projects
- Hospital based cancer registry and patterns of care survival studies.
- Several multicentric trials ongoing in the departments of Medical Oncology, clinical trials in Neurology and Clinical pharmacology.
- Multi-institutional network program on systemic lupus erythematousus understanding the diversity of SLE