HLL Gets National Award................ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A novel reproductive health device- a coated Copper T Intra Uterine Device (IUD)- has won HLL Lifecare Ltd (HLL) this year’s National Award for Technology Innovation in the healthcare sector. HLL Chairman and Managing Director M Ayyappan received the award from Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Nihalchand Meghwal in Delhi recently. The award instituted by the Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals (DCPC) consists of a shield, a citation and a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh. IUDs are small devices made of flexible plastic that contain copper or a natural hormone progestin. The device has been developed by Senior Scientist Abi Santhosh Aprem and his team at HLL’s Corporate Research and Development Centre (CRDC). He had proposed and successfully demonstrated the idea to address the issue under the Global Health Challenge programme of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and received a grant to develop the coated Copper T. The DCPC, Government of India set up the National Award for Technology Innovation to recognise meritorious innovations and inventions in various fields of polymers, with the participation of individual/team, industry, academic and R&D institutions.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 06:08:22 +0000