Bengaluru, 22 April 2026 — CENT, the early detection healthcare company founded by Shashank ND along with a team of clinical and operating leaders, today announced the opening of its first clinical prevention centre in Bengaluru. Alongside the launch, the company announced a deepened strategic partnership with Siemens Healthineers to power the diagnostic and imaging infrastructure across its growing centre network.
Spanning 7,000 square feet, the Bengaluru centre is India’s most advanced clinical prevention facility, purpose-built from the ground up for a single objective: finding silent, life-threatening disease in people who feel healthy. Unlike conventional diagnostic labs or hospital checkup wings that run dozens of unrelated tests on shared equipment, CENT’s centre runs one standardized protocol, the CCNM Protocol (Cardiac, Cancer, Neurological, Metabolic), with the throughput, clinical rigour, and quality control of a single-purpose facility.
Every visit to the centre integrates whole-body MRI, ultra low-dose cardiac CT, DEXA, ECG, and 120+ blood and biomarker tests, synthesized by CENT’s proprietary AI into the Tru10 organ-level risk report and closed with a one-on-one doctor consultation. The entire experience takes 120 minutes. The centre runs an Early Detection Index of 83%, CENT’s proprietary measure of detection comprehensiveness, among the highest for any screening protocol available today in India or globally.
The centre is also among the most advanced in India from an imaging standpoint. State-of-the-art Siemens Healthineers MRI, CT, and DEXA systems have been configured specifically for preventive use, with CENT and Siemens Healthineers jointly developing custom MRI protocols, deploying efficiency-enhancing software on Siemens Healthineers platforms, and pursuing joint research toward a new standard for preventive imaging. The collaboration is designed to reduce scan times, improve diagnostic accuracy, and bring down the cost of early detection at scale in India.
“We wanted to build something that does not yet exist in India. A facility designed from the first square foot for people who feel completely healthy, not a ward repurposed for checkups. Early detection cannot be a side feature of a multi-purpose diagnostic centre. It needs its own infrastructure, its own protocol, and its own rhythm. The Bengaluru centre is that, and it is also the template for every centre we open from here.”
Anshul Khandelwal, Co-Founder & CBO, CENT
The Bengaluru centre is the first physical node of a planned multi-city rollout, with Mumbai and Delhi-NCR to follow. CENT’s existing partner-led network has already completed more than 2,000 scans across seven cities since going live in Q1 FY26. Of these, 26% revealed clinically meaningful findings and 3% identified critical conditions requiring immediate medical attention, in individuals who were overwhelmingly asymptomatic at the time of their scan.
“Patient centricity is at the core of every innovation we bring in. As we continue to work on improving patient experience, we strongly believe that early and precise diagnosis leads to better outcomes, timely treatment, and effective management of lifestyle diseases. Such strategic partnerships focused on preventive healthcare empower us to aim for pioneering sustainable, replicable models to deliver high-quality, accessible care right to the last mile, for millions.”
Hariharan Subramanian, Managing Director, Siemens Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.
For CENT, the significance of the Siemens Healthineers partnership is operational rather than symbolic. Early detection, to function as infrastructure, requires hardware depth, protocol discipline, and clinical rigour moving in the same direction. The Siemens Healthineers collaboration is designed to ensure that imaging quality and hardware availability never become constraints as CENT’s centre network scales across India and eventually internationally.
“Healthcare today is built to respond to illness. That is the wrong starting point for most of what kills people. Cardiac disease, cancer, neurological decline, and metabolic disorders build silently for years before any symptom appears. The technology to catch all of this early already exists. What did not exist was the infrastructure to deliver it in a standardized, repeatable way at population scale. That is what we are building, one centre at a time.”
Shashank ND, Founder & Board Chair, CENT
The Bengaluru launch is the first in a rollout that will extend across 15 cities in India. CENT has articulated a long-term ambition of enabling 10 million scans and contributing to one million lives saved through standardized early detection by 2035.
