Partners & Institutional Affiliations
Athreya MedTech operates through a tightly coordinated consortium of clinical, engineering, research, and education partners — each critical to the MERIT AI pipeline.
Core Consortium Partners
Each partner has a defined role in the MERIT AI research and clinical pipeline.
De Cure Center
HSR Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Primary clinical research facility and Phase 2 data collection site for MERIT AI, with ophthalmic equipment and the Phantom Lab. Director: Jibran Munaver, ocularist with 12+ years of prosthetics practice.
Digital Mega Factory
1st Floor, Zareen Plaza, Hegde Nagar Road, Thanisandra, Bengaluru 560077
Designs and maintains the entire MERIT AI system — architecture, infrastructure, Docker deployment, data security, and content production. On-premise, zero-cloud by design. MSME: UDYAM-KR-03-0649205.
Validus Institute Inc.
San Diego, California, USA
US research partner. NIH SBIR co-applicant. Issues Certificate of Completion to Academy participants. CEO: Dr. Majd Oteibi (MD, DHSc, CCRP, FRSPH).
Aider Digital Pvt Ltd
1st Floor, Zareen Plaza, Hegde Nagar Road, Bangalore
Hosts the Digital Ophthalmology Dialogues on its learning platform, including monthly expert talks. Student pipeline for medical research internships. CEO: Yaseen Ahmed.
Athreya Inc.
Edison, New Jersey, USA
Parent company and primary NIH SBIR grant entity. Business structure, hardware procurement, investor relations, and USA-India market strategy. CEO: Dr. Bala Balaguru.
Institutional Affiliations
Institutions where members of the consortium have trained, worked or hold membership.
Harvard Medical School
USA
National Institutes of Health
USA
PGI Chandigarh
India
Aravind Eye Hospital
India
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
USA
University of Toronto
Canada
Royal College Hospital AU
Australia
OCTRI — Oregon Clinical & Translational Research Institute
USA
Legacy Devers Eye Institute
USA
Ocularist Society of India
India
Become a Partner
The next step for MERIT AI is external validation on human eyes, which needs clinics that can contribute de-identified scans, ophthalmologists who can review cases, and institutions that can host a scanning site. If that is you, write to us.
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