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April 30, 2025: Bengaluru — Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham through its Amrita School of Biotechnology has been selected as one of the 9 winners of the C-CAMP Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) Challenge 2024–25, a national initiative aimed at identifying and supporting groundbreaking innovations to tackle AMR in the environment. Organized by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), the challenge received nearly 200 applications from across India. It offers funding and ecosystem support to scale, produce, adopt, and integrate winning solutions for real-world impact. The selected innovations will be supported by C-CAMP in collaboration with the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s Global AMR Innovation Fund (GAMRIF), London, UK, with the aim of benefiting India and other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) facing similar challenges. The winning innovation from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, developed by Dr. Bipin Nair and his AMR team at Amrita School of Biotechnology along with School of Physical Sciences, Coimbatore, is an affordable Point of Testing (POT) device for monitoring AMR in environmental samples. The device employs impedance-based microfluidic technology combined with lytic phage-based detection, enabling rapid and accurate identification of clinically relevant pathogens.
“It is indeed inspiring that our efforts at Amrita, to develop an affordable, sensitive, specific, convenient and rapid system for detection of pathogens in the Environment was recognized by C-CAMP and GAMRIF for this award”, said Dr. Bipin Nair, Dean, Life Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
According to Prof. Ajay K. Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt. of India, “Antimicrobial resistance in the environment is a serious issue because of unchecked effluents from agriculture and industry reaching our water bodies, air and land. The problem has assumed alarming proportions across the entire world. I am heartened to see that innovators and scientists in India are developing cutting-edge innovations that hold promise not only in India and LMICs, but for the world”.
It is also noteworthy that the Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is now recognized by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (DST) as a Centre of Excellence for AMR research in collaboration with IIT Kanpur and Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow.
