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73 Projects | 118 Publications | 146 Patents | 13 IPRs Licensed to Industries

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EPIC

Industry: RiseTech Pvt. Ltd.

EPIC is a wearable band that provides a cost-effective solution to detect generalized tonic–clonic seizure (GTS) from muscle activity of patients by capturing Surface Electromyography (sEMG) signals. The device is coupled with mobile application to notify the caregiver of the patient regarding epileptic activity and the current location of the patient for timely assistance. The licensing agreement of the related IPRs for “EPIC: A Smart Wearable Epilepsy Monitoring Unit” was signed between NUST and RiseTech Pvt. Ltd. in Dec. 2020.

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EKKO

Industry: RiseTech Pvt. Ltd.

EKKO is a wave therapeutic device that uses vibration waves to treat neurological disorders Ultra low frequency vibrational waves have been found effective in the fast recovery of muscles because of their resonance with the natural frequencies of the muscle fibers and are lready used in the medical industry. Two versions of EKKO devices were fabricated to cater for the needs of the community. One of the versions has been developed for therapy of children at home, accompanied by a mobile application which assists the parents to perform therapy in an effective manner. The other version is a self-contained device suitable for use in hospitals and therapy centres.

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N-Safe Hand Sanitizer Gel

Launched by NUST

Industry: Pharmatec Pvt. Ltd

Amidst the ever-growing necessity of regular disinfection of hands to help prevent the spread of novel Coronavirus, the safety of millions of Pakistanis is in jeopardy as many uncertified hand sanitizers, with questionable efficacy, have appeared in the market across the country.
NUST has a national mandate and a proven track record of society-specific research & development for high quality, cost-effective, and reliable solutions to the diverse challenges faced by Pakistanis. In continuation of the same spirit and practice, NUST launched N-Safe; an Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Gel,
developed according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines
2020 that declare only high percentage alcohol-based disinfectants as effective protection against COVID-19. N-Safe Hand Sanitizer Gel has been certified for 99.99% microbial control by Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial
Research (PCSIR).
Having received authorization by the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP), N-Safe Hand Sanitizer Gel was manufactured under license by Pharmatec Private Limited, one of Pakistan’s most dynamic and fast-growing privately owned pharmaceutical companies, which is developing, manufacturing and supplying pharmaceutical generics and value-added products in the market.

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NCSC and Sundus Foundation:
Restoring Blood Banks

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NCSC collaborated with the esteemed Sundus
Foundation, to hold a door-to-door blood donation drive. The drive was held keeping in mind all
the mandatory precautions and tenets of social
distancing that the ongoing pandemic demands.
Willing donors could register if they wanted to donate, after which a mobile unit would come to their homes to collect the blood. The purpose of this donation drive was to contribute to the depleting blood bank at Sundus Foundation.

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Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated N-ovative Health Technologies (NHT) Pakistan’s first fcility for indigenous manufacturing of cardiac stents, angioplasty balloon catheters and other life-supporting medical devices at the National University of Sciences & Technology’s (NUST) Islamabad campus. With the establishment of NHT, Pakistan has become the 18th country in the world, and second Muslim country in the world after Turkey, to have its own facility for cardiac stent production. As per the World Health Organization (WHO), Pakistan stands 18th in the world to have maximum deaths per year due to coronary diseases and falls in the Red Alert Zone. This precarious situation is largely due to exorbitant prices of imported cardiac implants, which over 80 percent patients find inaccessible. The establishment of NHT not only brings quality stents within the reach of these patients, but also saves huge sums of foreign exchange every year for the national exchequer. NHT is an ISO 13485: 2016 certified facility accredited by European Commission Notified Body and approved by Drug Regulatory of Pakistan (DRAP). To begin with, NHT has launched three of its major products, including REJUVENATE – Bare Metal Stents (BMS), N-DEAVOUR – Drug Eluting Stents (DES), and VASOGLIDE – PTCA Balloon Catheters.

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NHT has also made another phenomenal breakthrough by manufacturing “N-SAVIOUR,” a ventilator system against the backdrop of COVID-19, which will be used to treat patients with chronic respiratory issues. The indigenous manufacturing of high-quality and cost-effective cardiac stents, angioplasty balloon catheters by N-ovative aims to reduce dependence on imports and also save precious foreign exchange to the tune of PKR 8.5 billion spent annually on the imports of cardiac stents and catheters.

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The outbreak of COVID 19, caused by Novel Coronavirus, has forced Governments, scientists and medical professionals the world over, to contemplate how to counter this unanticipated and deadly challenge facing the world. Leading
research-intensive institutions and centres across the globe are doing their best to grapple with the crisis; in Pakistan, National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) has been going the extra mile to combat this pandemic through indigenously developed technologies as well as intellectual input and support to the Government. Federal Minister for Science & Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain paid a visit to the university on 2nd April, 2020. The Honourable Minister was apprised about specifications and applications of projects displayed at the occasion. These projects included:

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NUST made diagnostic kits for COVID-19 get nod from DRAP over successful lab trials

In a breakthrough indigenous development of
diagnostic kits for the detection of COVID-19,
National University of Sciences & Technology
(NUST) received approval from the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) over the successful lab trials of N-CovKit – a Coronavirus Testing Kit developed by NUST for the diagnosis of COVID-19. A team of NUST researchers successfully performed lab trials of N-CovKit on as many as 330 blinded samples. These indigenously established assays were robust, sensitive to the
target, and would be available at a lower price as
compared to imported ones.

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NUST Balochistan Campus conducts free of cost COVID-19 testing for staff and students with the support of Balochistan Health Department (BHD)

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, NUST Balochistan
Campus in Quetta, keeping in line with NUST’s
re-opening instructions and HEC guidelines,
took a generous initiative to provide relief to its
returning students and staff by conducting free
of cost COVID-19 testing with the support of
Balochistan Health Department (BHD) in the first week of October. A Rapid Reaction Team of BHD conducted tests of students and staff over two days and provided fast results. Moreover, shortly before welcoming back the students at NBC, the campus was sanitized thoroughly.

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Later, the Minister witnessed a demonstration
of the decontamination systems developed by
scientists for disinfecting open and closed spaces. These technologies woulde be used to disinfect high risk and critically important locations, such as hospitals, in- and outdoor quarantine camps, airports, commercial spaces, etc., to lower the risk of Coronavirus spread.

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Classrooms, library, laboratories, and hostels were sprayed with sanitizing disinfectants in collaboration with Abu Turab Open Scout Volunteers who led the sanitization drive

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NUST scientists publish Pakistan’s first whole genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2

In extension to NUST’s tenacious undertakings to fight SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and after successful establishment of assays for the diagnosis of the disease, Dr Aneela Javed and Dr Ali Zohaib, faculty members at NUST Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences (ASAB), in another ground-breaking scientific discovery, have sequenced the complete genome of SARS-CoV2 – this will open up new avenues in tracing the evolutionary origin of SARS-CoV2 that infected Pakistani patients, and will be useful in comparative genome analysis. This is indeed a much-needed breakthrough, as it was the need of the hour to understand the origin of the virus – this will not only help to develop more accurate diagnostic assays for this virus but will also be applied in vaccine development studies.
The project has been completed in collaboration with Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP)
Rawalpindi, and Charite-Berlin Germany. The sequence was published through National Genome Data Centre China, on March 25, 2020, making it the first genome sequence of SARS-CoV2 to be published from Pakistan, and is now available on NCBI https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/
MT240479, GISAID and NEXTRAIN.

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