Apollo Hospitals has announced the launch of the Apollo Research Academy, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at positioning Apollo as a global leader in healthcare research and innovation.

The Academy, led by Professor Ravi P Mahajan CBE, is set to harmonise the efforts of various Apollo entities, including Apollo Health Education and Research Foundation (AHERF), Apollo University, ARI, Apollo Research Centre, Apollo Clinical Innovation Group, and others, to create a cohesive and internationally recognized hub of research excellence.

The Academy will focus on five key areas: Capacity and Culture, Sponsored Research, Investigator-Driven/Grant-Funded Research, Data Sciences, and Innovation.

Each area will be developed through a strategic framework that includes:

• Capacity and Culture: With a comprehensive programme of educational courses, skill-enhancing events, and resource sharing, and with ambitious collaborative projects for research and innovation across and beyond the Apollo ecosystem.
• Sponsored Research: Expanding this portfolio by establishing a consortium approach and strengthening partnership working with Contract Research Organizations (CROs).
• Investigator-Driven Research: Building consortiums on areas of national priority, and strategic international collaborations and partnerships to further enhance research programmes and outputs targeted at best possible world class healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
• Data Sciences: Establishing an internationally recognised Centre for Digital Health and Precision Medicine, focusing on research outputs, grant funding and innovations.
• Innovation: Developing well-coordinated innovation hubs, incubators, and accelerators, harnessing talent, and establishing strong partnerships nationally and internationally to drive programs for translation of innovative ideas into working reality.