Dr. Paul C. Salins
                    Managing Director

 

Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation (MSMF) is established to provide philanthropic support, medical outreach and translational research. Our goal is to make advanced healthcare accessible and cutting edge Medical Science applications affordable. MSMF with Narayana Health has established a unique hospital-based ecosystem for bringing our shared vision to fruition. 

 

 

Medical science has had the jurisdiction almost entirely for healthcare until now and has made remarkable progress possible. However, there is increasing recognition that physician-clinic-hospital centric healthcare must now make way for a broader Personal-Community- Physician- Hospital model of technology led healthcare. This shift mandates an approach that creates a culture of shared ideation between engineering and medical sciences. The expertise from disease biology encompassing genomic and molecular research, big data analysis, clinical research, etc must be now seamlessly integrated through advanced technology to socioeconomic factors to provide novel solutions of future healthcare.

 

With this in mind MSMF has created an ecosystem for guided innovation at multiple levels. Mazumdar Shaw Centre for Translational Research (MSCTR), Mazumdar Shaw Technology Business Incubator (MSMF-TBI) and the Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Outreach program (MSCOP) with Narayana Health-Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre (MSMC) constitutes an eclectic, scientific network that provides an optimal setting for novel ideation, entrepreneurship and fast track bench-side discoveries to bedside applications and smart solutions.

 

Healthcare and the practice of medicine in recent times demands more than addressing the physiological and/anatomical anomalies. The knowledge base that includes the  underlying molecular basis of disease conditions and its customization according to the genetic framework of each individual, can be leveraged to develop mandatory adjuncts that can enable precision medicine. Application of advanced technologies for big data analysis, both molecular and clinicopathological, is now a fast-advancing approach that can intelligently optimize existing information to obtain accurate diagnostics/prognostics. Finally, innovation is the primary strategy that can enable the translation of research findings to healthcare solutions. Fostering entrepreneurship in a healthcare set up will ensure a synergism with the clinicians fastening the process of deriving smart solutions. Given that medicine today demands a comprehensive understanding of all the various stakeholders, the Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation has a focus on integrative  medicine that includes developing the knowledgebase, and encouraging innovation for its optimal application towards value addition in healthcare.

 

It is my view that we are embarking on one of the most exciting enterprises where clinicians, scientists and entrepreneurs can work under one roof for addressing healthcare issues by bringing in new tools and strategies in the fast-changing scenario of clinical practice.