ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, BHOPAL

All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhopal (AIIMS Bhopal) is a medical research public university and Institute of National Importance located in the Saket Nagar suburb of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. It was established as part of a group of new AIIMS institutions announced in 2003, including those at Rishikesh, Patna, Jodhpur, Bhubaneswar and Raipur, though the project was delayed due to changes in central government. AIIMS Bhopal launched its first academic department, Community and Family Medicine, in September 2012, formed its Institute Body in July 2013, and began postgraduate courses in January 2017. In 2019, a BSL3 lab was established, and the institute became the 12th in India to be designated a Centre of Excellence for Rare Diseases. Its Research Based Translational Medicine Department focuses on Bioinformatics, Tissue Engineering, Molecular Diagnostics, Infectious Diseases, and Precision Medicine, supported by collaborations with institutes like IISc Bangalore, IIT Kanpur, IIT Indore, IISER Bhopal, CSIR-AMPRI, and NIT Bhopal. In 2023, faculty filed 7 patents and published around 300 PubMed-indexed papers. AIIMS Bhopal was ranked 31st among medical colleges in India by NIRF in 2024 and 16th by India Today.