The Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is an agency of the Republic of India, responsible for the development of technology for use by the military. It was formed in 1958 by the merger of technical development establishment and the Directorate of Technical Development and Production with the Defence Science Organisation. The DRDO has a…
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, the apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research, is one of the oldest research bodies in the world. The ICMR is funded by the Government of India through the Department of Health Research, Ministry of Family and Health Welfare. The…
The setting up of a separate Department of Biotechnology (DBT) under the Ministry of Science and Technology in 1986 gave a new impetus to the development of modern biology and biotechnology in India. The department’s efforts at promoting and accelerating the pace of development of biotechnology in the fields of agriculture, health care, environment and…
The vision of DPRP is to create more industry-institutional alliances with respect to both traditional and conventional medicine, set up more national facilities on pharma informatics, standardization and quality control and evaluation of safety and efficacy of traditional medicines for disorders like atherosclerosis, arthritis, reproductive problems, diabetes, cancer and communicable diseases like hepatitis, tuberculosis, malaria,…
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) is a department within the Ministry of Science and Technology in India established in 1971 with the objective of promoting new areas of science and technology and to play the role of a nodal department for organizing, coordinating and promoting scientific and technological activities in the country. The…
CSIR has earned the distinction of developing 11 out of the 16 new drugs developed in India. It has developed cost-effective and innovative processes for around 25 generic drugs, standardization of over 50 herbal drugs and devised new diagnostic tools. The production of over 25 drugs/drug intermediates, technologies for which have been developed and successfully…
The National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) is a premier plant-based multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art national R&D centre of CSIR undertaking research from classical taxonomy to cutting edge areas of modern biology, including both, applied and basic research in multifarious fields ranging from biochemistry to bioinformatics, for the conservation and sustainable utilization of the non-crop plant genetic resources…
Formerly Regional Research Laboratory, Jammu, it is one of the premier institutes engaged in two areas of research namely, drug design and development and microbial biotechnology. Established in 1941 as a low-key research and production centre known as Drug Research Laboratory of J&K State, it was later taken over by the CSIR in 1957. Sri Ramnath…
Popularly known as CIMAP, it is a frontier plant research laboratory, originally established as Central Medicinal Plants Organization (CMPO) in 1959. CIMAP is steering multidisciplinary high-quality research in biological and chemical sciences and extending technologies and services to farmers and entrepreneurs of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) with its research headquarters at Lucknow and research centres…
The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), a premier industrial R &D organization in India was constituted in 1942 by a resolution of the then Central Legislative Assembly. It is an autonomous body registered under the Registration of Societies Act of 1860. CSIR aims to provide industrial competitiveness, social welfare, a strong science and…