Institutions

At present in India,there are six major agencies responsible for financing and supporting research in the realm of biotechnology apart from other sciences.They are:

    • Department of Science and Technology (DST)
    • Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
    • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
    • Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
    • Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR)
    • University Grants Commission (UGC)
  • Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), DST, DBT are part of Ministry of Science and Technology while ICMR is with Ministry of Health, ICAR with Ministry of Agriculture and UGC with Ministry of Human Resource and Development. DSIR is the funding agency for CSIR and both of them independently fund biotechnology related research programmes.
  • The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) is a department, under the Ministry of Science and Technology responsible for administrating development and commercialization in the field of modern biology and biotechnology in India. It was set up in 1986.
  • Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) is a not-for-profit Section 8, Schedule B, Public Sector Enterprise, set up by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India as an Interface Agency to strengthen and empower the emerging Biotech enterprise to undertake strategic research and innovation, addressing nationally relevant product development needs.

Other Biotech Institutions in India

Name of Institution

Areas of Research

Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu
  • Natural product
  • Chemistry pharmacology

International Centre for Genetic Engineering, New Delhi
  • Plant and animal biology
  • Synthetic biology
  • Biofuels

Adyar Cancer Institute, Chennai
  • Cancer immunotherapy
  • Biomarker discovery
  • Targeted therapy

Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad
  • Computational biology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Epigenetic

Institute of Life Science
  • Immune biology
  • Nanotechnology

Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
  • Biomedicine and biotechnology
  • Genomics biochemistry
  • Biophysics
  • Bioinformatics

Centre for Bio-Separation Technology, Vellore
  • Protein separation technology
  • Proteomics
  • Monoclonal antibody production
  • Recombinant antibody fragments production

Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow
  • Agronomy & soil sciences
  • Genetics and plant breeding
  • Plant biology

Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
  • Drug discovery and development
  • Reproductive health, safety and clinical development

Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow
  • Nanotherapeutics & nanomaterials toxicology
  • Environmental toxicology
  • Regulatory toxicology
  • Health risk assessment

Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi
  • Genomics and molecular medicines
  • Energy and environmental biotechnology

National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Mumbai
  • Stem cell biology and transgenesis

National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad
  • Risk analysis of mycotoxins
  • Safety assessment of GM foods and development of analytical methods and protocols for safety

National Centre for Biological Science, Bengaluru
  • Biochemistry
  • Biophysics & bioinformatics
  • Genetics & development
  • Cellular organisation & signalling
  • Theory and modelling of
  • biological systems

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