The INIT supported and collaborated with the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Lahore Campus and few other partner intuitions in convening the 6^th International Symposium on Biomedical Materials: Synergizing Partnerships on December 14 – 16, 2017. The Symposium aimed at developing synergy between identified stakeholders in Pakistan and beyond, facilitating industry scientists, promoting clinician linkages/interdisciplinary research in biomedical materials, strengthening involvement of public and private sector in biomedical materials research & development, adopting bio and research ethics protocols, developing scientist/industrial and clinician sensitivity to regulatory affairs & ethics, facilitating public engagement and knowledge dissemination, and developing route maps for spinning off science & technology based companies in Pakistan.

Collaborating Partner:        

1. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore campus;
2. Inter Islamic Network on Information Technology (INIT), Islamabad;
3. The University of Sheffield, UK; and
4. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK.

Participating Countries:      

1. Islamic Republic of Pakistan;
2. New Zealand;
3. Ukraine; and
4. United Kingdom.

Participants:  Around 300 Clinicians and Researchers from above given 4 countries participated in the symposium.