Wadhwani Research Centre for Bioengineering (WRCB) was set up to be a world-class translational research centre in bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). The centre was established in 2014 through a generous donation by IIT Bombay’s alumnus Dr Romesh Wadhwani - a successful serial entrepreneur and a signatory to the ‘giving pledge’.

The center supports faculty members across various departments of IIT Bombay in undertaking breakthrough interdisciplinary translational research in bioengineering. The four core focus areas of the center are Diagnostics, Therapeutics, MedTech, and Synthetic Biology. The projects carried out by the faculty members associated with WRCB have resulted in 900+ publications, 80+ patent applications, and 11 spin-off companies in diverse areas ranging from diagnostics to drug discovery.