Diabetes Research and Grant

The RSSDI Digital Health Research Grant represents a strategic investment in advancing diabetes care through innovative technological solutions. By promoting collaboration between clinical experts and technology partners, RSSDI seeks to support high‑impact research.

Objective:

• To drive innovation in diabetes care and improvement in operational efficiencies through use of the latest digital tools/technology including AI/ML/LLMs and
• To promote collaboration between RSSDI members and other stakeholders in digital diabetology ecosystem.

RSSDI - KCDD supports diabetes digital health projects that address a significant issue affecting large population in India and that are possible to be scaled.

RSSDI Diabetes Digital Health Grant 2025 - Awardees

1. Proposal: GlucoScope: AI-driven, non-invasive digital platform for personalized glycemic prediction and diabetes self-management

   Grantee Institution: ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai (Dr Joshua Chadwick)

   Collaborator Institution: VIT, Vellore, Tamil Nadu (Dr Suchetha M)

2. Proposal: Neural Network Enhanced Retinal Imaging for Forecasting Diabetic Complications.

   Grantee Institution: AIIMS, Kalyani (Dr Tandra Ghosh, Dr Christofer Thomas)

   Collaborator Institutions:

   • IIT Madras, Chennai (Dr Nabeel P M)
   • NIT, Rourkela (Dr Rashmi Achla Minz)

3. Proposal: AI-Powered Carb Counter for Indian Food Items for Type 1 Diabetes Management in Low-Resource Settings.

   Grantee Institution: Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (IPGMER), Kolkata (Dr Sujoy Ghosh)

   Collaborator Institutions:

   • Nurture Health Solutions and Nurture Health Academy and Research Centre, Mumbai (Sheryl S. Salis)
   • SEREXIA Consultancy Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru (Prabhakar Pandey)

4. Proposal: Development and validation of an indigenous artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled smartphone app (ALAADIN) for detecting the presence of ischemia and/or infection in diabetic foot ulcers (DFU): a multicentric proof-of-concept study from India.

   Grantee Institution: Sapthagiri Institute of medical science and research, Bengaluru (Dr Riddhi Dasgupta, Dr Shivaprasad C, Dr Balaji Naik)

   Collaborator Institutions:

   • NRS Medical College, Kolkata: Dr Sunetra Mondal, Dr Nilanjan Sengupta, Dr Sapan Shah
   • Techsaga Corporations Pvt Ltd – Noida: Neha Tiwari, Kajal Kumari, Varun Kumar, Raj Gaurav

Digital Health Research Grant Committee

The RSSDI Digital Health Research committee (‘committee’) uphold the high standards of scientific rigor, ethical integrity, and practical relevance, guiding each funded project from proposal selection to implementation and monitoring.

Members