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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Delhi is a hub for Biotechnology-Major Institutes


This review covers major institutes offering biotechnology education and research in Delhi.


THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/
The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology conducts innovative research in life sciences for the benefit of developing countries. It strengthens the research capability of its Members through training and funding programmes and advisory services and represents a comprehensive approach to promoting biotechnology internationally

Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
http://www.igib.res.in/
IGIB mission " To translate concepts developed in basic biological research to commercially viable technologies for health care ".

JNU, New Delhi (School of life Sciences)
http://www.jnu.ac.in/main.asp?sendval=SchoolOfLifeSciences
The School stands today as a unique institution in the country where multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching and research in life sciences have established permanent roots. The uniqueness of the School essentially lies in the fact that within the School’s faculty there are experts and active researchers representing almost all areas of modern biology. Life sciences in its entirety constitute wide range of our research programmes.

National Institute of Immunology
http://www.nii.res.in/
The National Institute of Immunology (NII) is an autonomous institution supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. The Institute is committed to advanced research addressing the basic mechanisms involved in body defence, host-pathogen interactions and related areas with a view to contribute to the creation of an internationally competitive intellectual knowledge base as a sustainable source of innovative futuristic modalities of potential use in health care.

Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)
http://www.iari.res.in/
The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) is the country's premier national Institute for agricultural research, education and extension. It has served the cause of science and society with distinction through first rate research, generation of appropriate technologies and development of human resources.

Defence Institute of Physiology & Allied Sciences (DIPAS)
http://www.drdo.org/labs/dls/dipas/index.shtml
Major Biotechnology Programme
(i) Development of nonspecific response by Stress Proteins.
(ii) Search for Stress Resistant Macromolecule

Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (INMAS)
http://www.drdo.org/labs/dls/inmas

Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi
http://www.jamiahamdard.edu/course_science.asp#biotech
Over a period of last ten years, Jamia Hamdard has emerged as an outstanding institution of higher learning with distinct and focused academic programmes.

Delhi University, South Campus
http://south.du.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=50


Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research
http://www.acbrdu.edu/
Laboratries are the fundamental units of the ACBR. headed by a senior faculty member. The lab may include several other junior faculty members plus post doctoral fellows and graduate fellows; who share the common scientific interests of the group. This structure provides flexibility and enhances the opportunity for intellectual interaction and collaboration, and minimizes the administrative traffic that may impede academic life.

Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
http://www.iitd.ernet.in/deptt/beb/
The Department of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology at IIT Delhi has a unique place in the development of biochemical engineering discipline in India. The Institute took an early note of the significant role that was to be played by biochemical engineers and biotechnologists in future industrial development of biotechnology related processes and products by initiating this activity in 1968. At present the Department provides a model for an integrated approach towards education as well as research and development of various bioprocesses.

National Institute of Malaria Research
http://www.icmr.nic.in/pinstitute/mrc.htm
The technical programmes of the Centre may be broadly classified into the disciplines of vector biology and control, genetics and cytogenetics, parasitology, pharmacology and epidemiology. Emphasis is being placed on molecular biology, biochemistry and molecular epidemiology.

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
http://www.aiims.edu/aiims/departments/Biotechnology/biotechintro.htm
Biotechnology has emerged as a major force not only in industrial terms but also as a discipline where in frontier areas of biology are being integrated to enhance the quality of human life. The development of immunology and molecular biology have been integrated with modern virology, microbiology and fermentation technology to yield rich dividends in the form of medical products such as insulin, erythropoietin etc., as well as sensitive and specific diagnostic procedure for infectious diseases and inherited disorders.

National Centre for Plant Genome Research
http://www.ncpgr.nic.in/
The establishment of the Centre followed several years of intensive research on various facets of both fundamental as well as applied aspects of plant molecular biology, under the auspices of the DBT-sponsored Centre for Plant Molecular Biology (CPMB) in the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Consequently the research projects of four principal investigators who initiated the CPMB constitute the ongoing research programme of the Centre. With the identification of chickpea (Cicero arietinum) as a mandate crop of the Centre to pursue genomic studies, the focus of the research is slowly shifting to chickpea genomics. The programme at the moment is being implemented from the CPMB building and is expected to continue there till the NCPGR has its own research labs

National Brain Research Centre, New Delhi
http://www.nbrc.ac.in/
This centre is didecated to provide infrastructural facilities and a coordinated multidisciplinary team to work at the frontiers of neuroscience research and network the existing groups and whenever required create satellite units to catalyze the overall growth of this discipline in the country .This system of networking will create and encourage local talent and by a judicious exchange of workers between the peripheral centres and the core centre. Besides research, the centre provides a national level nucleus for comprehensive training and teaching in diverse fields of neurosciences.









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