1. It encourages and facilitates cooperation for research activities between Indian and US academic and industrial institutions.
2. It facilitates dialogue between scientific community and regulatory bodies of the two countries to evolve a platform for such regular exchange.
3. This centre aims to provide and promote authentic information about the strengths of Indian system of medicine and to help demystify the misconceptions about these systems of medicine in the United States.
4. CRISM endeavours to get global recognition for our health care systems in order to position our products in the world market by enabling standardization of classical formulations, ensuring GMP and strengthening regulatory mechanism within India.

Achievements of Ayush

1. Collaboration with Russia – Three MoUs have been signed between the Government Institute of Ayurvedic Medicine, St.Petersburg and Indian Institutes namely National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur, CCRAS and Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga, New Delhi.
2. On the request of an NGO based at Hungary a team of Ayurveda experts were deputed to this country in 2008 to give authentic training of Ayurvedic health care, massage and panchkarma methods to health personnel and masseurs of wellness units and spas.
3. The second meeting of the inter-ministerial task force was constituted by Department of AYUSH for promotion of traditional Indian medicine with the objective of identifying focus countries, creation of a database of NGOs working for AYUSH in foreign countries and AYUSH experts for international cooperation activities.
4. An MoU between AYUSH and The State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China was signed to envisage cooperation in policies relating to regulation and administration of traditional medicine in India and China.
5. A framework of cooperation was signed between Department of AYUSH and International Trade Center, Geneva with regard to international market development of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani products.
6. An Ayurveda conference-cum-exhibition was organized by the Indian Embassy in Budapest, Hungary to showcase the strengths of Ayurveda and to explore the opportunities of possible collaborations with educational institutions and universities in the field of education and research.
7. AYUSH participated in WIPO’s Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore at Geneva and highlighted India’s concerns regarding misappropriation of its traditional knowledge and the need for an internationally binding legal instrument for protection of traditional knowledge and genetic resources.
8. Department of AYUSH deputed experts in Ayurveda for a period of one month in 2007 to the United States to deliver lectures to medical students under CME modular teaching at the medical schools of University of Connecticut and University of Washington.
9. As a part of an ongoing Indo-EU dialogue under the aegis of India-EU strategic partnership for economic cooperation, a three-member expert team from European Union Commission visited India in 2007 on a fact-finding mission to understand the regulatory, educational and other related aspects of Ayurveda. They suggested a simplified registration system for traditional medicinal products based on bibliographic evidence of safe use in the form of textual references of authentic classic texts and pharmacopoeias and formularies, absence of microbial impurities, pesticides, heavy metals etc.
10. India is represented by AYUSH in the International Regulatory Cooperation on Herbal Medicines, a network setup under the aegis of WHO. The forum provides a platform for electronic exchange of regulatory information of herbal/traditional medicines through a collaborative web space provided to individual focal points of each member country.