Research Promotion Policy
Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu accords high priority for research and innovation. The various schools of this institution encourage undergraduate and postgraduates to perform research and publish their research works during their academic tenure.
Research Objectives
SIMATS encourages its faculty to serve their research goals through their main commitment to engaging in research, industrial collaboration. The main research objectives of SIMATS are to
Affirm research as a part of the curriculum and integral activity of the University
Provide facility to conduct high-quality research in a transparent, socially responsible and ethical manner
Provide internal seed money/incentives for faculties to promote research interest and to perform quality research and support the faculties to acquire funds from external sources like various central funding agencies
Offer research incentives for faculties who publish in reputed impact factor journals
The institution has provided Rs. 11 crores as a seed money to its faculties to perform research in the identified institutional thrust areas. The institution encourages students and faculties to publish their work in high-impact factor journals by providing incentives. The institution has spent Rs. 4.8 crores as publication incentives for the past five years. The university has identified more than 70 exclusive researchers who frequently publish research papers in Q1 journals and receive research grants from funding agencies and consultancy projects. The university spends Rs. 16.8 crore/year for such faculties in addition to their salary as research incentives. Every year the institution conducts Founder’s Day, INSIGNIA and STAR SUMMIT events to felicitate its faculties and students who have significantly contributed to the research. SIMATS encourages students and faculties to attend national/international conferences by providing travel grants and to undergo fellowships and projects in international universities.
Research Facilities
The various schools of this institution have world class infrastructure. The institute has developed various labs according to its core research thrust areas based on the above research objectives. The various research laboratories/centers such as Saveetha engineering industry, cell and molecular medicines (Blue Lab), Material science (White Lab), microbiology (Orange lab) were established in the last five years. This institute completed clinical trials for cancer drugs, 2-DG and Covishield drugs during the COVID pandemic. Currently, Covaxin is undergoing clinical trials in pregnant women.
JEOL IT 800 Scanning Electron Microscope - India’s first 0.5 nanometre resolution with 20 lakhs magnification
Ultra Fast Liquid Chromatography
Stereotaxic Apparatus
Instron Electropuls E 3000 Universal Testing Machine - First dynamic universal testing machine in Tamilnadu
SD Mechatronik Chewing simulator - Only Chewing Simulator with inbuilt Thermocycler in a private University in India
SD Mechatronik Brushing simulator - Only Chewing Simulator in a private University in India
Ethics in research
SIMATS have CPCSEA approved separate animal houses for Medical and Dental Colleges (Red lab) etc. The institution has CPCSEA recognised animal and DCGI recognized human ethical committees to monitor and to control the research in animal and human. The various schools of this institution have a Scientific Review Board containing 10 faculty members from different academic and research disciplines, who scrutinize and approve the UG, PG and Ph.D. research proposals. The institution conducts Research Society Meetings through which PG students and faculties present their research works.