Extramural Funding
Government funding is a pride to any researcher. We have numerous government funded research projects. Our faculty have obtained government funding for around a crore plus in the last academic year. A few to showcase our credentials are given below.
Intramural Funding
Saveetha Dental College provides funding to students and faculty for research. Waiving of charges in laboratory facility, providing fund for publication and travel grant for faculty to present their research papers across the globe around 100 plus faculty received travel grant in past three years. Also top five students of each batch receive a fee waiver based on their rank.
Collaborations
University Collaborations
Internationally, we work with the prestigious Harvard School of Dental Medicine to frame the curriculum for special Care dentistry.
We also work with Charles Darwin University, The Sun-Yet SEN University for collaborative research and student exchange programs.
We have MOU's with Vellore Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology and Adyar Cancer Institute and we do stem cell and Cancer Research With IIT, we work on the properties of Dental Materials.
Corporate Collaboration
We work with 47 Companies too enhance our research. These firms provide us directed or indirect financial assistance in the form of subsidies. The major corporate contributors who work with us include RAI CBCC, Nobel Biocare, Carl Zeiss, Sirona.
Publications
Publish or perish!! Publishing ones work is of utmost importance in research society to ensure benefits to humanity. Saveetha Dental College stands in top five Colleges in scopes indexed publications. Also there are more than 100 publications in other indexed journal like pubmed and Thompson Reuters.
Patents
Saveetha Dental College holds 118 patents. This includes an array of clinical research Varying from clinical equipments, biomaterials, software and hand instruments. The patents are applied by the students and the faculty. The college bares the expense of all the processing charges so as to motivate the young minds.
Consultancy Services
We help research and corporate collaborations to solve their day to day problems and enhance efficiency. We have printed 3D models for surgeons in other universities.
Pals plush India (P) ltd is a multinational company at SRI CITY, TADA, ANDRA PRADESH. They manufacture and export toys to Europe and the western countries. I have been appointed as a consultant for Quality control department in keeping the microbial load at permissible level to meet the international standards during export. And also I have to deal with any queries raised by the international customers
We train private practitioners in Microendodontics, Implant Planning and Placement. Every year we train over 8 Australian Dentists to learn planning and placement of dental implants.
Many Ph.D scholars from government and private universities use our Dental Research Cell and the Biomedical Research Unit and Lab Animal Centre (BRULAC) to complete their experiments.
Our faculty have been invited to design and guide in curriculum training in other universities.
Our faculty conducted Training Programme in Implantology for Australian Dental Surgeons, Implant Placement Training for Indian Society for Dental Research also we had Equinox Dental Implants from Netherlands used for our implant cases.
Finally we also participate in many drug trials for Pharma Companies.
Over the past 4 years, our consultancy based incomes has steadily increased.
Cumulatively, we have earned over 40 Lakh Rupees through Consultancy services.