“We believe that we need to leave the world a better place than we found it. By focusing on medical electronics, we use our talents to advance the state of the art and to improve the lives of those around us. It is a thrill to work with our development team: taking vague ideas, refining their design, making working prototypes, and delivering finished products to happy customers. Our ability to handle both design and manufacturing in-house sets us apart from many other design-only or manufacturing-only houses. By doing more here at Indus Instruments, we can go further to improve customer satisfaction and contribute to their research.”
Company
In 1992, Dr. Sridhar Madala assembled a team to research, design, manufacture, and sell devices to solve complicated problems. Here at Indus Instruments, we work hard making products both for direct sale to researchers and for a wide range of outside clients.
Research Products: Indus Instruments has collaborated closely with researchers at Baylor College of Medicine for over a decade. This collaboration has resulted in many NIH SBIR grants and publications for Dr. Madala and colleagues at Indus Instruments, along with several products for cardiovascular researchers worldwide. Go to our Products page to learn more.
Engineering: Since its founding, Indus Instruments has worked with outside clients to develop products with sales in the tens of millions of dollars. Go to our Engineering site to learn more about a selection of our projects in the biomedical, petrochemical, and other industries.
Team
Sridhar Madala
Founder and President
Sridhar holds a doctoral degree (1988) and a Masters degree (1985) in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Rice University, and a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras (1982). He was the V.P. of Engineering from 1988 to 1990, and the President from 1990 to 1992, at Coherent Systems, a Houston based medical device start-up that developed one of the earliest computerized electrophysiology recording and analysis devices. He founded Indus Instruments in 1992.
Anilkumar K Reddy
Consulting Senior Scientist
Dr. Reddy is an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. Since 1998, he has used Pulsed Doppler systems to conduct cardiovascular research in small animals, leading to multiple publications. Dr. Reddy has been integral to the design and testing of the Doppler Flow Velocity System (DFVS). At Indus, he directs training of customers using the DFVS and serves as Senior Scientist, helping develop new instrumentation and explore novel applications.
Walter Caro
Software Architect
Walter designs and implements custom embedded and client-side software. He coordinates with our other software engineers and works with our hardware electronics team to implement a combined hardware and software system that works as one. His areas of expertise include Ultra-Low Power Software Design, Digital Signal Processing, Real-Time Controls and Visualization of Complex Data. He holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Rice University.
Juan Tovar
Manufacturing Manager
Juan oversees all manufacturing & procurement efforts. He has brought a wealth of manufacturing knowledge and experience with him from previous roles. At Space Systems/Loral he worked on communications satellites, and at Kestrel Solutions he worked on long haul fiber optics systems. His work at Picarro was with their Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy technology. He assisted with the transition from device design to production at Diagnostic Systems Laboratory and headed up production of a 96 well microplate luminometer. While at Positron he headed up the procurement and manufacturing of PET scanners systems. He holds an associates degree in Electronics from DeVry University.
Partners
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)
Indus Instruments has been closely collaborating with world class researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston for the past 20 years. We have successfully worked on many joint Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Our collaboration has resulted in commercial products, currently manufactured and marketed by Indus, for cardiovascular and other preclinical researchers that enable the doppler ultrasonic monitoring of mice, as well as the temperature control and heart rate monitoring of mice. We have numerous joint publications with BCM and are currently engaged in a number of additional SBIR projects.
Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL)
We continue to collaborate with researchers from Los Alamos National Labs (LANL) to develop the electronics for instrumentation based on the principle of swept frequency acoustic interferometry (SFAI). This technique enables non-invasive ultrasonic interrogation of fluid filled containers (pipes, artillery shells, etc.) to extract a variety of material properties and can be used in a wide range of fields (chemical weapons treaty compliance verification, contraband detection, octane rating of gasoline, etc.)
Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) Kiev, Ukraine
Working with researchers from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering in Kiev, Ukraine, we developed the electronics for ray tracing aberrometers that generate a map of the refractive errors for the human eye. Such instruments are useful for providing accurate diagnostic data needed for custom Lasik surgeries. The end result of our collaboration with IBME is the Visual Function Analyzer for Tracey Technologies Corporation, which we continue to manufacture the electronics under an OEM agreement.