Wadhwani Research Centre for Bioengineering

Wadhwani Research Centre for Bioengineering (WRCB) was set up to be a world-class translational research centre in bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). The centre was established in 2014 through a generous donation by IIT Bombay’s alumnus Dr Romesh Wadhwani - a successful serial entrepreneur and a signatory to the ‘giving pledge’. Wadhwani Research Centre for Bioengineering (WRCB) was set up to be a world-class translational research centre in bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). The centre was established in 2014 through a generous donation by IIT Bombay’s alumnus Dr Romesh Wadhwani - a successful serial entrepreneur and a signatory to the ‘giving pledge’.The center supports faculty members across various departments of IIT Bombay in undertaking breakthrough interdisciplinary translational research in bioengineering. The four core focus areas of the center are Diagnostics, Therapeutics, MedTech, and Synthetic Biology. The projects carried out by the faculty members associated with WRCB have resulted in 900+ publications, 80+ patent applications, and 11 spin-off companies in diverse areas ranging from diagnostics to drug discovery. Wadhwani Research Centre for Bioengineering (WRCB) was set up to be a world-class translational research centre in bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). Through our Innovation Funnel, we harness the creative freedom of academia to generate a pipeline of new ideas and potential breakthrough technologies; enable our staff with product development experience to prototype, mature and de-risk these technologies; and leverage our internal business development team, intellectual property experts, and entrepreneurs-in-residence to drive commercialization, through industrial partnerships, licensing agreements, and the creation of startups.