Dr. Ihtesham-U-Rehman, conceived the idea of establishing the first ever Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials (IRCBM) with in Pakistan long before the Earthquake in October 2005. However, soon after this natural disaster Dr. S. M. Junaid Zaidi joined forces with Dr. Ihtesham and decided to establish IRCBM at M. A. Jinnah campus of COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Lahore. In August 2006, Dr. Junaid Zaidi gave permission and Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan later approved Rs. 33.323 Millions to establish IRCBM and faculty block at the Lahore Campus and construction of the purpose built block was started in October 2006.

Mr. Muhammad Usman joined CIIT, Lahore in February 2006 and took up the challenge of setting up IRCBM. He not only supervised the construction and furnishing of the centre but also prepared a PC-1 amounting to Rs. 486 millions which was submitted to HEC of Pakistan for the establishment of Department of Biomedical Materials at CIIT, Lahore.

Dr. Shahzad Mufti joined IRCBM in December 2007 as an Advisor/Incharge of the Centre. He played an instrumental role in establishing the centre and development of the team. He also wrote the PC-1 entitled “Strengthening of the department of biomedical material sciences at CIIT, Lahore” which was submitted for funding to Ministry of Science and Technology of Pakistan. This PC-1 amounting to Rs. 38 million was approved by the Ministry in April 2009.

 The centre was officially inaugurated by the Chief Minister of the Punjab, Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on the 28th October 2008.

Due to the hard work of the entire team the centre now has well equipped bioceramics laboratory and range of equipment is on order to establish characterisation, polymer and biological laboratories.