Tag: DBT

Vaccine Discovery Programme supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India under Ind CEPI, implemented by BIRAC will soon move into clinical trials...............

Vaccine Discovery Programme supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India under the National Biopharma Mission, implemented by BIRAC moves into clinical trials The study will assess the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of the vaccine.................

This mobile testing facility that has biosafety facility and is capable of performing RT-PCR as well as ELISA tests, will be deployed through the DBT testing hubs to remote regions of the country.....................

The “COVID-19 Catalytic Partnership” set up by DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance and RTI International India would allow researchers based in academia, industry and the social sector in India to take up COVID-19-related research that has an immediate transformative impact and future possibilities................

Within a month of its inception, the National Biomedical Resources Indigenization Consortium constituted by the Department of Biotechnology, has seen active engagement from several major stakeholders of Indian biomedical resources innovation community

The four Bio Repositories under the purview of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) are NCR-Biotech Science Cluster including THSTI, Faridabad – Clinical samples and RCB Faridabad –Viral samples; Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar;  InStem, Bangalore;  and ILBS, New Delhi....................

In a new study, researchers from the leading institutes in India have identified a region in the genome of rice, which seems to have the potential for improving productivity.........................

Researchers have been working on natural compounds from Ashwagandha and Propolis for the past several years and are now exploring the possibility of some of their bio-actives to interact with severe acute respiratory syndrome-CoronaVirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2).................

The consortium constituted by Department of Biotechnology, GOI will be based out of C-CAMP Bengaluru and aims to provide a collaborative platform for building indigenous biomedical resources towards a self-reliant biotech ecosystem...............

The shortlisted proposals include 10 vaccine candidates, 34 diagnostics products or scale-up facilities, 10 therapeutics options, 02 proposals on drug repurposing, and 14 projects which are categorized as preventive interventions......................