Overview

• IIT Kanpur and IISc Bengaluru will integrate engineering, medical science and research by establishing new medical schools on their campuses.
• The minister urged collaboration among academia, industry and government to ensure sustainable, scalable health innovations.
• Singh highlighted India’s preventive and precision healthcare breakthroughs, including the world’s first DNA COVID-19 vaccine, an HPV vaccine and a haemophilia gene therapy trial.
• He announced the launch of Nafithromycin, India’s first indigenously developed antibiotic molecule, as a milestone in pharmaceutical innovation.
• Citing astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla’s ISS mission carrying domestic life science kits, Singh proposed a Space Medicine academic stream to prepare Space Physicians.