M. P. Birla Medical Research Centre has been established in the year 1988 with the following objectives:

To undertake and organise Medical Research, to take-over, establish aud provide maintenance facilities for Medical Research and to undertake, prosecute, develop, help or carry on all or any kind of basic or fundamental and/or applied Medical Research and Scientific Research work in connection with or relating to surgical, clinical, research problems which will, without prejudice to the generality of the said field of research, include research in the following directions:

• To carry out special enquiries for study of Tropical and metabolic diseases.

• To make an epidemiological study of diseases in the community.

• To make experimental studies in attempts to evolve effective and practicable methods of controlling the diseases under Indian conditions.

• To carry on research on surgical problems including in particular those relating to heart, brain, bones and other parts of the human body.

• To undertake research in the field of mental health especially those affecting the harmony of human relations.

• To undertake research to discover means of effective economy, in remedies so that these remedies may fall within the means of great masses of Society.

• To encourage the discovery of, and investigate and make known the nature and merits of investigations findings and research and take action for protection of rights arising out of such research findings.

• To carry out any of the above mentioned research or other scientific work, and to do all or any of the above mentioned things and things incidental thereto.

This research centre now has three units in the following places in India:

M. P. Birla Medical Research Centre, Calcutta,
M. P. Birla Medical Research Centre, Birlapur (West Bengal) and

M. P. Birla Medical Research Centre, Satna (Madhya Pradesh).

RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS

Various medical research projects have been undertaken so far by the research centre, on several topics of medical sciences. The main area of research is study of chronic renal failure in patients before and after renal transplantation. Donor selection method using the concept of Tissue Matching Index developed newly in the centre has started getting recognition at international level.