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Research Area-7:

National Centre for Pharmacoengineering for designing innovative delivery strategies

The “National Centre of Pharmacoenginnering (NCPE)” prime objective is to be a National
Center of excellence (state-of-the-art infrastructure) in promoting high standard cutting edge
pharmaceutical engineering and translational biomedical research through the dissemination
of advanced pharmaceutical knowledge for the ultimate benefit of the society and
pharmaceutical industries with particular emphasis on the North-east region of our country.
The center will also promote an effective translational route for fundamental and applied
findings into routine industrial applications through a multidisciplinary approach, combining
novel delivery strategies, novel technological innovation, implementation and translational.

PROJECT ACTIVITY-1

NCPE, NIPER-G designed, developed & validated a 3D-printed hands-free object in terms of
opening or closing off the doors, windows, drawers (both vertical & horizontal), refrigerator
handle, elevator buttons, laptop/desktop keyboards, including turning on/off switch buttons.
Careful analyses of several resources for risk measurement and on how viruses spread
through bare hands, we arrived to a solution to fabricate a 3D printed object to avoid further
passing on COVID-19 transmission from one bare hands to others.

Salient Features: The other features are: easy-to-design, rapid development of the
porotypes, single-user transport, handy, user friendly, non-fragile and easy to clean with the
existing sanitizers or any alcoholic disinfectant.

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