NITHM has a tripartite mission of research, education and innovation. The initial activities of NITHM are designed to synergise and build on existing activities of technology research and development at NTU that is medically-related and to facilitate the interaction between these groups, both within NTU and with the healthcare community in Singapore. The structures used to achieve these goals include the Technology Programmes, the Clinical Forum and the Interdisciplinary Graduate School in Future Healthcare. The Nanyang Institute of Technology in Health and Medicine (NITHM) is an initiative of the Future Healthcare Peak of Excellence – one of the five strategic peaks defined in the NTU 2015 Strategic Plan. The establishment of NITHM leverages on NTU’s ongoing technology-inspired research activities in healthcare within the six Schools of the College of Engineering (CoE) and the two Schools of the College of Science (CoS). More than 200 existing projects related to health and medicine have been identified, many of which include an active collaboration with Singapore General Hospital and Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Amongst these projects that NTU has engaged in is the work on biodegradable stents that unblock clogged vessels in the body. One of the stents, used for unclogging arteries in the leg, has resulted in an international start-up backed by more than US$12 million in investments.