Medical ultrasound

RESEARCH LABORATORY

Medical Ultrasound Research Laboratory in BTBM Academic Building, IIT Hyderabad.

Enticing lab lunch at Absolute Barbecue (Mar'22)

Lab outing and thrilling adventure activities at Flipside (Jan'23)

Members of MURL with Prof Chrit T W Moonen in IEEE SAUS 2024 conference held at IIT Gandinagar.

Aniket Sabale receiving the Best Paper Award at the IEEE SAUS 2024 Conference held at IIT Gandhinagar

Fueling both body and mind in a nourishing lab lunch at Madoe (Jun'24)

Members of MURL with Dr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, CEO of ANRF

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ABOUT

MURL is focused on the intersection of therapeutic ultrasound, diagnostic ultrasound, genomics, sensors, basic engineering, and medicine. MURL develops smart therapeutic & diagnostic ultrasound techniques for broad clinical themes including cancer, maternal/fetal, and musculoskeletal applications. Our vision is to develop and translate medical ultrasound techniques and devices to the clinic, leading to improved patient care and outcomes.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Our lab is led by Dr. Avinash Eranki, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.

He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Eranki Labs private limited, a company that focuses on developing and translating novel ultrasound devices and technology to the clinic.

Dr.Eranki worked with Prof.Chrit. T.W. Moonen, and Dr.Mario Ries at University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands, Dr.Bradford J.Wood at the Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, and Dr.Peter C.W. Kim at Children's National Medical Center on developing novel therapeutic ultrasound techniques for cancer therapy.

EVENTS

Four works from MURL members, Aniket, Megha and Shradha has been selected for presentation at the IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium 2024 held at IIT Gandhinagar

Dr Avinash Eranki was awarded Faculty Research Excellence Award at the 16th Foundation Day Ceremony of IIT Hyderabad

Mr Aniket Sabale’s work “Ultrasound Wave Propagation and Shear Stress through Tissues for Intercostal Focused Ultrasound Therapy”, with co-authors Suhail Rizvi Mohd, Viswanath R R S R Chinthapenta, and Avinash Eranki has been awarded 3rd prize in the best paper competition at the IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium 2024 held at IIT Gandhinagar

Mr Vigneshwaran G's work “vAO-Variant Annotator for OncoKB: A simplified interface to identify targeted therapies for somatic tumors”, with co-authors Qurratulain Annie Hasan, Avinash Eranki has been selected for presentation in at the ESMO TAT 2025 conference held in Paris, France on 03/05/2025

GRANTS

MURL is currently funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) and the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) to develop novel technology for diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound.