IIT Jodhpur Sets Up Ayurtech Centre Of Excellence

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur inaugurated AyurTech, the Centre of Excellence (CoE) sponsored by the Ministry of Ayush on 12th May 2023. The CoE AyurTech is part of the Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Precision Healthcare at the school of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (AIDE) at IIT Jodhpur. The aim of this centre is to establish an AI-driven integrative framework for population and individual risk stratification and early actionable precision health interventions. 

The AyurTech CoE was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Ministry of Ayush, Government of India and Prof Santanu Chaudhury, Director, IIT Jodhpur, in the presence of faculty and staff of the institute. The Centre for AyurTech is being proposed as the first-of-its-kind initiative in the precision health and medicine space that would combine Electronics, Digital health and AI and multi-omics technologies for realising ‘Evidence-based Ayurveda’ solutions in a transdisciplinary framework.

A built-up space of approximately 3760 sq ft for an AyurTech facility for Phenotyping, Molecular Biology, Chemistry and Device Development Fabrication and Characterisation Area has been provided by IIT Jodhpur. This space for technological immersion will enable capacity building in different domains of Ayurveda, increase employability in transdisciplinary domain, provide innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities and help in trans-disciplinary research programmes.