Rohit Srivastava, FNASc, FNAE, FAMS. Vigyan Shri Awardee 2024, SSB Prize 2021 and Himanshu Patel Chair Professor of Department BSBE at IIT Bombay, Dr.Rohit Srivastava is passionate about affordable healthcare Technologies.

Rohit Srivastava, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, who has filed more than 250 patents and been granted over 80, is one of the Vigyan Shri awardees honoured by the Indian government for distinguished contribution in the field of Science and Technology.

His seminal work in biomedical engineering, especially in the area of affordable healthcare devices in the Indian market, led him to be recognised under the “Technology and Innovation” category of the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar 2024, which felicitates outstanding researchers in the fields of science, technology and innovation.

Prof. Rohit Srivastava has demonstrated his versatility by conducting fundamental and translational research in the field of health care. His tremendous efforts and commitment to meet the challenging needs of underdeveloped rural healthcare sector of India has led to the development of numerous affordable point of care technologies. Four such technologies (SYNC, Uchek, SmartSense and CareMother) have been commercialized, and more than 10 products are in the process of regulatory approval.

Prof Srivastava's lab has filed more than 200 patent and design applications to the US and Indian Patent Office with more than 50 granted patents and several published and has graduated 50 PhD and 100 Masters students. He has been awarded the Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Medical Sciences 2021 and is an elected Fellow of NASI, INAE, NAMS, RSC and RSB, London.

He has been instrumental in encouraging 10 of his students to set up Companies either through a TBI or otherwise and is himself a co-founder on 5 startup's with more than 3 women entrepreneurs co founders.

He is also on the panel of several companies where he mentors them through startup grants and one such startup product, CareMother has achieved self-sustainability to focus further on last mile and women health issues. Care Mother, a hardware and app for diagnosing high risk pregnancy in rural population has already touched more than 0.5 million women and has managed to make a huge impact on rural healthcare delivery!