C-CAMP Launches India AMR Innovation Hub

Recently, the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), a globally recognized innovation ecosystem and India’s leading enabler of bio entrepreneurship, launched the India AMR Innovation Hub (IAIH) to help reduce the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) burden in India.

India AMR Innovation Hub (IAIH)

  • It is a unique convergent think tank on AMR interventions with Indian and global stakeholders - government, academia, industry, philanthropic and not-for-profit organizations coming together to boost consolidation and fast-track national efforts against AMR for a larger global health impact.

Objectives: IAIH aims to collectively bring in the required interventions for nurturing AMR innovation ecosystem including developing access and public health policy, capability and capacity building, AMR stewardship and public communication.

Antimicrobial Resistance

  • AMR refers to a condition wherein microbes become resistant to antibiotics used to treat the infections and multiply instead of dying.
  • Pathogens develop resistance when they turn on internal resistance process, change to protect themselves from antibiotics or receive resistant genes from other pathogens.

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