About FMR
The Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai
The Foundation for Medical Research (FMR) was established in 1975 as a Public Trust and is recognized as a national research organization by the Government of India. It is affiliated to the Mumbai University for post-graduate/doctoral degrees.
FMR practices a combination of basic biomedical and translational and public health research. Its traditional research areas have been the major infectious diseases of leprosy, tuberculosis (TB) and modernization of traditional plant-based medicine. Newer focus areas being developed include COVID-19, environmental health, malnutrition and health system strengthening.
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LEPROSY
- Non immunological nature of early nerve damage – clues for Rx
- Developing animal experimental models for RX efficacy and drug resistance diagnosis in patients
- Feasibility of a vaccine for leprosy prevention and immunotherapy
- Challenging claim for leprosy elimination in 2005 (active surveys)
- Advocating systemic change for tackling post treatment deformities
WATER & SANITATION
- Examining copper coil as a disinfection method for household water
- Training rural school children for testing of water potability
- Features of resilience in drought prone rural communities
- Identifying threat of AMR in urban river water bodies and presence of elements mediating horizontal transfer of drug resistance genes
MODERNIZATION OF TRADITIONAL PLANT-BASED MEDICINE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASES AND TB
FMR data – surveillance June 2022- July 2023
- Unique focus area
- Development of road map for modernization of traditional plant based medicines – (a) Highlighted importance of multi modal pre-clinical screening of plants (b) Standardization of crude extracts through metabolomics (c) POC clinical trial
- Identification of plants active against TB
TUBERCULOSIS
- Estimating true load of DRTB in RNTCP patients in Mumbai – challenging govt. data + how does new drug resistance develop (Awarded the Centre for Excellence grant in 2014)
- Developing rapid diagnostics for DRTB using for 1st time in India whole genome sequencing & training of public sector laboratories.
- Repository of sequences from 7500 clinical strains of TB from India
- Tracking quality of TB care in the private sector
- Exploring infectiousness of TB patients post treatment
- Innovation in non-invasive diagnostic mask-based method for childhood TB
VIRAL (SARS COVID-2) AND AMR ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEILLANCE
- SOPs developed for surveillance
- Participated in 2 rounds of national viral surveillance through INSACOG
ESTABLISHING PRINCIPLES OF ADULT COMMUNICATION & LEARNING FOR HEALTH SYSTEM STRENGTHENING FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH & TB
- Incremental process aids absorption and reflection
- Pedagogy with examples and confidence building
- Repetition, revision and improving
- Easing into critical and wider thinking
- Encouraging functional independence
- Initially face to face.. Later transitioning to virtual mode
- Systemic opportunities to apply learnt content
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“Let me congratulate the Foundation for Medical Research for the excellent example which has been set by them for conducting relevant and sustainable research with the least amount of investment… the dedication, the zeal, the enthusiasm and the willingness to provide translational research was evident in all the presentations.”
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