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ADMISSIONSpg 12Opportunities for Studying Biotech: The Entry Points

ThE ENABLERS

pg 18Nurturing & Branding Excellence in Biotech Teaching & Trainingby Dr Suman Govil, Advisor, Department of Biotechnology,Ministry of Science & Technology

pg 41 List of Companies/Institutes imparting Training & offering Jobs under BITP Program, DBT

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

pg 74BioPharma: BioPharma Beckons with Diverse Opportunities

pg 51 Nurturing Leadership in Biotechnologyby Dr AK Rawat, Director, Dr Meenakshi Munshi, Director, Dr Suman Govil, Advisor, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology

pg 58Unique Pioneering Programs by DST

pg 60 UGC Strengthens Higher Education

pg 63Bridging Programs

pg 77BioAgri: Opportunities in the Green Collar Industry

pg 80BioInformatics: Capacities vs Jobs in Bioinformatics & Biotechnologyby Dr Kshitish Acharya K, Founder Director, Shodhaka Lifesciences

pg 84BioServices: An Evolving Industry

ENTREPRENEURShIP

pg 113Encouraging Entrepreneurship: The BIRAC Way

pg 116 Linking S&T to New Venture and Employment Creation

pg119“First Learn and then Venture into Entrepreneurship”

pg 121 Hubs of Technological Entrepreneurship

TRAIL BLAZERS

pg 103Outstanding Performers: An Introduction

pg 104 The Biotech Mentors

pg 109The High Achievers

Content

INSTITUTION LISTINgSpg 124A detailed State wise Comprehensive Compendium of Institutions, including Colleges, Universities and Research Centres, offering education and research opportunities in the Life Sciences arena

pg 86BioSuppliers: A Growing Niche Segment

pg 91Education & Research: Nurturing Future Minds

pg 92 Sericulture: Weaving Silk with Modern Technologies

pg 94Environment, BioResources & Marine Biotechnology: Attractive Avenues for Environmental Specialists

pg 97 IPR: IP Protection Opens New Vistas

ExPERTS OPINIONpg 88 High Quality Talent to Fuel Biotech GrowthDr Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CMD, Biocon Growth

pg 98 Careers in IPR Attracting Growing Number of ScientistsAtulya Nath, CEO, Global Institute of Intellectual Property

pg 100Design your Dream with Your own ExpertiseDr Geeta Sharma, Research Director, Tapadia Diagnostics

pg 102Career Path in Biotechnology-The Inside StoryDr Smita Singhania, CEO, SMBIO Services

It is a good time to be in the Indian life sciences space. There is a vibrant and dynamic biotech industry, innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem, increased industry academia interface, which is expected to make the Indian biotech industry a 100 billion dollar

industry by 2025. On the other hand many initiatives and schemes have been floated by the Government

of India, over the past three decades, for building the human resource capital and institutional capacity for the life sciences sector. The thrust of the Government through its various agen-cies (like the Department of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Council of Medical Research) has been to nurture home grown excellence both for basic and applied research in life sciences. These efforts are bearing fruits as based on the cumulative world publication data for 1996-2011; India currently holds the 10th global publication rank and 18th global citation impact rank in Science and Technology.

In this scenario, a need was felt for creating awareness among the student community about the life sciences/biotech landscape in the country both in terms of education and future avenues. The Biotech Career Ready Reckoner 2014 (BCRR) aims to fulfil the twin objectives of helping students select a suitable institute for studies in life sciences/biotech and orienting them towards a career in the life sciences domain.

BCRR brings forth important information about structured study and training opportu-nities in biotechnology; the various schemes of government agencies like DBT, DST, UGC for building human resource and institutional capacity; a detailed section on future career prospects along with the skill sets required; case studies of some successful students who have made a mark for themselves in research, academia and the life sciences industry; and a look at government initiatives to help, handhold and mentor the future technopreneurs.

A constant query from students is about the educational institutions that provide cours-es in life sciences. To address this need, BCRR provides a detailed state wise comprehensive compendium of more than 500 institutions offering post graduate, research and BE/B Tech programs in life sciences and also specialized courses in pharma like B Pharma and M Phar-ma. These listings not only carry the names of prominent institutions but also crucial details like the courses offered, type of institution, contact details, etc. Significantly, the various insti-tutions where DBT supported biotech postgraduate teaching program is on and the colleges falling under the ‘Star College Scheme of DBT’ have been highlighted for convenient viewing.

The BCRR would not have been possible without the support of DBT. We are indeed thankful to the Department of Biotechnology and in particular to Dr Suman Govil, Adviser, DBT, who is spearheading the Human Resource and Development initiatives in the Depart-ment, for fiscal support and valued guidance throughout the project.

It is our pleasure to present the Biotech Career Ready Reckoner 2014 to our readers and shall look forward towards your suggestions and feedback to make BCRR even more useful to the life science student community in future.

Rolly [email protected]

07Biotech Career Ready Reckoner 2014

Editorial

A Panoramic view of Opportunities in Life Sciences

ROLLY DUREhAContent Editor

I am extremely happy that Department of Biotechnology has supported publication of Biotech Career Ready Reckoner-2014. The Booklet will cover information about opportunities for taking up biotechnology degree courses in the country, HR initiatives of different funding agencies like DST, DBT, UGC, etc., brief profiles of centres of excellence, biotech science clusters and prominent educational institutions in the country. The book has also highlighted case studies of outstanding student and faculty achievers, so that others are inspired. A large number of students are passing out of different biotechnology courses and information about career opportunities, training programmes to make them industry worthy and schemes to handhold and mentor entrepreneurs would be very handy to the students in making correct career decisions. Similarly, information about institutions offering biotechnology courses with crucial details such as number of seats, eligibility, type of institutions, etc. would enable students to choose the right institute and the course. I am sure that the Biotech Career Ready Reckoner would be very useful to the student community aspiring to take up courses in biosciences/biotechnology and make career in it. I wish the endeavour great success.

MESSAGE

(K. VijayRaghavan)


DBT SECRETARY Message

I have been actively involved in conceiving and implementing important human resource development programmes of the Deptt. of Biotechnology since its inception. The programmes cover Star College Scheme, PG teaching programmes, doctoral and post doctoral fellowships, BITP & Finishing Schools as well as Short Term Training programmes. These programmes have been formulated keeping in mind present and future needs of the country, programmes of other funding agencies, current status and are regularly monitored and revised to cater to the changing scenario. The Department receives a number of phone calls, RTI applications from students and parents seeking guidance regarding different courses run by universities and colleges in the country, quality of training imparted, placement analysis of outgoing batches etc. Hence, the need for Biotechnology Career Ready Reckoner has been felt on the basis of experience from interaction with students and faculty. It is expected that the Biotech Career Ready Reckoner supported by Department of Biotechnology to Vivify Media Pvt. Ltd. especially section on opportunities for education and career with details of number of seats, eligibility, important timelines, placement analysis and contact details of important functionaries would be very handy to the students in selecting suitable institute for higher studies and making correct career decisions. It is expected that the section on Trail Blazers with stories of outstanding student and faculty achievers would inspire the students to achieve their full potential. I feel such efforts need to be repeated at regular intervals to serve the student community.

INTRODUCTION

(Suman Govil)Adviser


DBT HRD ADVISER Message

Biotechnology, being an interdisciplinary subject, offers opportunities for structured study and training at the bachelor, master or doctorate level. Being multidisciplinary in nature, students with a background in a variety of biosciences subjects can opt for biotechnology specialization at the postgraduate level. The eligibility and admission process details for biotechnology course curriculum at the Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctorate level are detailed below.

Opportunities for Studying Biotech: The Entry Points

BSc BiotechnologyDuration: Three years.Eligibility: The eligibility criterion is essentially 50 percent or above (the minimum percentage may vary from state to state) in PUC/10+2/Interme-diate/equivalent with science subjects (biology, chemistry, physics and/or mathematics).Procedure: Admissions are through an entrance exam by the university/institute and/or on merit, that is, the marks secured in the final exams of 10+2.

B Tech/BE BiotechnologyDuration: Four years.Eligibility: The minimum qualifica-tion for admission is a pass grade in the final examination of 10+2 system or its equivalent with a science back-ground. For the B Tech program at the IITs there is no prerequisite of biology at school level for admissions.Procedure: The admission to the IITs and NITs (National Institute of Tech-nology) undergraduate programs is through an All India common entrance exam-the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). In 2012, CBSE announced this common examination in place of the earlier AIEEE and IIT-JEE. The JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) is being conducted into two parts, JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced. The JEE-Main exam is for admission in National

Institutes of Technology (NITs), IIITs (Indian Institutes of Information Technology), other Central Funded Technical Institutes, etc. And JEE-Ad-vanced is for admission in Indian Insti-tutes of Technology and Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU). The eligibility to write the JEE-Advanced exam is based on the performance in the JEE-Main examination and 150,000 qualified students are eligible to attend the JEE-Advanced Exam.

The admissions to the B Tech pro-gram at the IITs and NITs is held once a year in July through the JEE conduct-ed on an All India level in April/May. The admission is offered on the basis of one’s choice vis-a-vis his/her all India rank in the JEE.

Other than the common JEE for the IITs and NITs, the admission to the state level engineering institutions and private engineering universities offering undergraduate programs in biotech-nology and allied streams is generally routed through a common state level entrance exam. The admission to these institutions is based on the ranking in the entrance exam and/or on merit, that is, the marks secured in the final exams of 10+2.

Integrated M Tech programDuration: Five yearsEligibility: Students should have successfully completed the 10+2 or equivalent examination, with

physics, chemistry and mathematics for integrated M Tech programs at the IITs.Procedure: Selection to IIT courses are through the Joint Entrance Exam-ination (Advanced).

MSc BiotechnologyThe Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) conducts a Combined Entrance Exam-ination (CEE) for admissions to MSc biotechnology program at 51 centres spread across the country.

Duration: Two yearsEligibility: Candidates with bachelor’s degree under 10+2+3 pattern of educa-tion in biological, agricultural, veter-inary and fishery sciences, pharmacy, engineering, technology or medicine (MBBS) or BDS with at least 55 percent marks are eligible for the CEE conduct-ed by JNU.Entrance Exam Details: The ques-tion paper for the entrance exam is of three hours duration and is divided into two parts: Part-A has multiple choice type questions at the level of 10+2 in the subjects: physics, chemis-try, mathematics and biology. Part-B also has multiple-choice questions of bachelor’s level requiring thinking and analysis. There will be questions from physics, mathematics, biology (e.g., botany, zoology, biochemistry, microbi-ology, genetics and molecular biology) and chemistry.The selection depends on the performance of the candidate in the entrance exam.

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Admission ENTRY POINTS

ENTRY POINTS

Important DatesIssue of application forms: Second week of Feb to second week of MarchLast date for submission of applica-tion: End of MarchDate of entrance Exam: Mid MayAnnouncement of result: Second week of JuneAllotment of university: First/second week of July

The JNU conducts the Common Entrance Test (CET) on behalf of the following 34 universities (where MSc in biotechnology program is supported by DBT) in the country. These are:01. University of Allahabad, Allahabad02. Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu (M.Sc. in Marine Biotechnology)03. Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri (M.Sc. in Bioresources Biotechnology)04. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi05. University of Burdwan, Burdwan06. University of Calicut, Kerala07. Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore08. Goa University, Goa (M.Sc. in Marine Biotechnology)09. Gulbarga University, Gulbarga10. Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar11. Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar12. Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla13. HNB Garhwal University, Garhwal14. University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad15. University of Jammu, Jammu16. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi17. Kumaun University, Nainital18. University of Lucknow, Lucknow19. Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai20. Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak (M.Sc. in Medical Biotechnology)21. M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara22. University of Mysore, Mysore

23. University of North Bengal, Siliguri24. North Eastern Hill University, Shillong25. Pondicherry University, Pondicherry26. University of Pune, Pune27. R.T.M. Nagpur University, Nagpur28. Sardar Patel University, Anand (M.Sc. in Industrial Biotechnology)29. Shivaji University, Kolhapur (M.Sc. in Environmental Biotechnology)30. Tezpur University, Tezpur (M.Sc. in Molecular Biology & Biotechnology)31. T.M. Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur32. Utkal University, Bhubaneswar33. Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur34. Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan

MSc (Agri) and MvSc BiotechnologyJawaharlal Nehru University also holds Combined Entrance Examination for admission to MSc (Agri.) biotechnolo-gy program and MVSc program being offered at the following participating universities:

MSc (Agri) Biotechnology Program01. Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat02. Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal03. Ch. Sarwan Kumar H.P.Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Palampur;04. G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pant Nagar05. Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur06. Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur07. Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Latur (Maharashtra)08. Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar09. Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore10. University of Agricultural Sciences,

G.K.V.K., Bangalore11. University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad12. Rajendra Agricultural University, Samastipur

MVSc Program01. Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar02. G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar03. Nanaji Deshmukh Pashu Chikitsa Vigyan Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur04. Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana05. Maharashtra Animal & Fishery Sciences University, Nagpur06. Assam Agricultural University, Guwahati07. Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar

The Examination is held in mid-May at different centres all over the country.

In addition to the DBT support-ed postgraduate courses in the above mentioned institutions, many other universities and private colleges also offer Master degree program in biotech-nology. Students wanting to opt for this course should have a BSc degree with a minimum of 50 percent aggregate marks (this percentage may vary from state to state) with chemistry or bio-chemistry as a compulsory subject and any one optional subject like botany, applied botany, zoology, environmental science, sericulture, biotechnology and genetics.

The admission to these institutions is generally through an entrance exam and/or is based on the percentage secured in their bachelor program.

M Tech BiotechnologyDuration: Two years.Eligibility: The M Tech program is open to candidates with a B Tech/BE/B Pharma or MSc degree in relevant disci-


Admission

plines. A valid GATE score is a prereq-uisite to enter the M Tech program at the IITs and other reputed institutions. Admission in the M Tech programs at the IITs is also allowed for the spon-sored candidates from the industries as well as research organizations and those admitted need not have qualified GATE.

The JNU conducts a Combined Entrance Examination for admission to M Tech biotechnolo-gy program (four-semesters or two years). This program is offered by the following participating universities:01. Anna University, Chennai02. Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala (M Tech in Marine Biotechnology)03. West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata

The entrance examination is held in mid-May at centres all over the country.

Eligibility: Minimum 60 percent marks or equivalent CGPA (under grading system) from any recognised university in any one of the following (B Tech/BE in: chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, industrial biotechnology, leather technology, chemistry / biotechnology, biomedi-cal engineering, B Pharma, chemical technology OR MSc in: biotechnology, life sciences, botany, zoology, biochem-istry, microbiology, genetics, biophysics, microbial genetics and bioinformatics)

The question paper for entrance exam is of 3 hours duration consisting of two streams: (i) Technology Stream and (ii) Life Sciences Stream

PhD ProgramIntegrated PhD program at IISc and IIT

Eligibility: Candidates possessing a minimum of first class in BSc or equivalent degree in biological sciences (including bachelor’s degree in pharma-

cy, veterinary and agricultural sciences) are eligible to apply for integrated PhD program in biological sciences at IISc, Bangalore. The short-listing of can-didates for interview is based on the performance in Joint Admission Test (JAM). This Joint Admission test is a common entrance exam for candi-dates who want to study PG academic programs available at IISc Bangalore and IITs.

Students qualifying the JAM are eligible for the MSc-PhD dual Degree in Biotechnology at IIT Bombay and the MSc Biotechnology program offered at IIT Bombay and IIT Roorkee.

Important Dates for JAMCommencement of online registration: Mid-SeptemberClosure of online registration on website: Third week of OctoberJAM examination: Second week of FebruaryAnnouncement of Result: Mid April

Besides the integrated PhD program, IISc also has PhD programs in biologi-cal sciences where the admission to IISc is through an entrance exam conducted by the institute or is based on the GATE score followed by an interview.

Joint graduate Entrance Examina-tion in Biology and Interdisciplinary Life Sciences (JgEEBILS)The JGEEBILS is a shared entrance test for several institutions doing research in biology and interdis-ciplinary life sciences. The test is coordinated by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). The participating institutes are:01. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) at Bhopal, Kolkata, Mohali, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram02. Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad

03. Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad 04. National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar05. National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru 06. National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi 07. Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bangalore 08. National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune 09. Department of Biological Sciences (DBS), TIFR, Mumbai

All institutions have different application processes and students should refer to the individual websites of participating institutions for details of their admission process and degree requirements. The programs offered by participating institutes include PhD; Integrated MSc-PhD at DBS, NBRC, NCCS, NCBS, and IISER Pune; MSc by research at DBS; and MSc (Wildlife Biology and Conservation) at NCBS.

The written test is held in the second week of December at various centers across the country.

National Education Testing (NET) for Teaching & ResearchThe University Grants Commission conducts a National Eligibility Test (NET) to determine eligibility for Assistant Professorship/Lectureship and Junior Research Fellowships (JRF) in order to ensure minimum standards for the entrants in the teaching profession and research in several subjects. The Test for five core Science subjects, viz. Chemical Sciences; Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean & Planetary Sciences; Life Sci-ences; Mathematical Sciences; Physical Sciences is conducted twice every year by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) under the Joint CSIR-UGC NET in the months of June and December. For candidates who desire to pursue research, Junior Research




Fellowship (JRF) is available for a maximum period of five years. The candidates, who qualify for JRF in the UGC-NET, can pursue research in the UGC recognized universities and institutions.

Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in BiotechnologyThe National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune coordinates the Biotech-nology Eligibility Test (BET) for the award of DBT-Junior Research Fellow-ship (JRF). This fellowship is for pursuing research in frontier areas in biotechnol-ogy and applied biology. The JRFs are selected according to merit under two categories: Category I and II. Category I fellowship (Top 275 in number) are ten-able in any University/Institute in India where the students can register for PhD. Category II students (100 in number) are eligible to join any DBT sponsored project and avail fellowship equivalent to NET/GATE qualifications as per DST Guidelines. From 2014 the Category I and II have been merged to give flexibili-ty to students to join PhD in any institute or university of their choice. Also a separate syllabus for DBT-BET exam has been formulated from 2014. The online admission test BET is conducted in the third week of April across different cen-tres in the country.

To sum up, India boasts of a network of research institutes spread around the country established both by government and private sector. Students wanting to pursue an active career in biotech research can enter any CSIR, ICAR or ICMR lab depending on their qualifi-cation and area of specialization. Apart from the labs falling under CSIR/ICAR, almost all the IITs, IISc, institutes and universities having a life/biological sci-ences department further research in this frontier area of knowledge. Admission to these PhD programs is made on the basis of written test/interview conducted by the department/centre concerned.

The basic qualification required is a post graduate degree with a CSIR-UGC/ICMR/DBT fellowship and/or a good GATE score.

Curriculum outline for MSc & MTech BiotechIntensive theoretical and practical train-ing is offered to all biotechnology MSc/MTech students. The details of courses in different streams are given below:

MSc (General) Biotechnology: Cell biology, bio-molecules, microbial physiology and genetics, computer applications and biostatistics, molecu-lar biology, macromolecules and basic enzymology, biology of the immune system, biophysical chemistry, animal biotechnology, genetic engineering, plant biotechnology, bioprocess engi-neering and technology, genomics and functional genomics and project in third and fourth semester.

MSc (Agriculture) Biotechnology Major courses: Molecular genetics and cell biology, techniques in cell biol-ogy, fundamentals of molecular biology, techniques in molecular biology, princi-ples of genetic engineering, techniques in genetic engineering, techniques in plant tissue culture, biotechnology for crop improvement, biodiversity, IPR, biosafety and bioethics, plant metabolic engineering.

MSc (Animal) BiotechnologyMajor courses: Molecular genetics and cell biology, techniques in cell biol-ogy, fundamentals of molecular biology, techniques in molecular biology, princi-ples of genetic engineering, techniques in genetic engineering, techniques in animal tissue culture, biotechnology for animal improvement, biodiversity, IPR, biosafety and bioethics, Introduction to immunology and vaccinology. Minor courses viz. essentials in biochemistry, molecular biophysics, bioinformatics & statistics, microbiology are common to agriculture and animal biotechnology.

MSc (Medical) Biotechnology: Biochemistry and cell biology, human physiology, quantitative methods, molec-ular biology, genetics and developmental biology, medical microbiology, genetic engineering, genomics and proteomics, human genetics and human genome, immunology, vaccines and transplanta-tion technology, somatic and germline engineering, social, ethical and legal issues in medical biotechnology, diagnostics and communication skills as well as optional courses.

MTech Courses: In MTech courses, stu-dents from different background such as BTech biochemical engineering, chemical engineering and MSc Biotechnology are admitted. Students can opt for different courses in the first semester. Students with BTech biochemical engineering are offered courses in biochemistry, biophys-ics, enzyme catalyzed organic synthesis, analytical methods in biotechnology, carbohydrates and lipids in biotechnol-ogy, fluid solid systems, food science and engineering, thermodynamics of biological systems, multistage separa-tions, biosensor technology, advanced bioprocess control. Students with BTech chemical engineering are offered biosen-sor technology, microbial biochemistry, lab techniques in microbial biochemis-try, enzyme and microbial technology, recovery and purification of products, biochemical engineering fundamentals while MSc students are offered courses in bioprocess engineering enzyme and microbial technology, recovery and purification of products, biochemical engineering fundamentals, applied math-ematics, process engineering principles. Courses on protein engineering, advance bioprocess engineering, animal and plant cell technology, bioinformatics methods and application, pharma biotechnology, combinatorial biotechnology, modeling and simulation of bioprocess, bioprocess plant design are offered in second and third semester along with major project in third and fourth semester.

Please visit the DBT website www.dbtindia.nic.in for curriculum details ■


The EnablersINTRODUCTION

A look at HR initiatives of different Government Agencies:The Department of Biotechnology (DBT)The Department of Science and Technology (DST)The University Grants Commission (UGC)

The Facilitators

Quality trained manpower is crucial for success in meaningful R&D, teaching and production activities in the field of biotechnology. Realising the need for well-trained manpower in multi-dis-ciplinary and rapidly advancing area of biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology initiated an integrated human resource development program in biotechnology as early as 1985-86 comprising of postgraduate teaching programs, short term training cours-es for upgrading skills of mid-career scientists and faculty involved in UG and PG teaching, training in leading overseas laboratories, fellowships for doctoral and post-doctoral research as well as industrial training of students to produce industry ready manpower. The Department also initiated an innovative program namely “Star College Scheme” to provide enhanced practical expo-sure, opportunities for interaction with eminent scientists, research exposure in form of minor research projects to un-dergraduate science students and faculty improvement programs. This program aims to catch them young to encourage them to pursue higher education in science. A number of awards and fellow-ships have been initiated to recognize outstanding contributions made by our scientists and to encourage Indian sci-entists working abroad to return to the country. The outcome of major initia-tives by DBT is outlined below:

Catch Them YoungDBT Scholarships in BiologyIt is a known fact that best brains are not attracted towards basic sciences and opt for professional courses such as engineering, medicine or management

Nurturing & Branding Excellence in Biotech Teaching & Training

which could be due to long gestation period, low remuneration, etc. To build a strong foundation in basic sciences, it is essential to attract talented students to basic sciences and to nurture their talent to create competent leaders, innovators and academicians. Ministry of Science & Technology has taken systematic and innovative approach to influence the choice made by students to attract them towards basic sciences. Department of Biotechnology initiated scholarships to top 20 students in biology at 10+2 in CBSE AISSC exam for pursuing career in life sciences. This scheme was initiated in 1989 and has been expand-ed to cover Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) and State Boards (2 scholarships each from 26 State Boards) from 2006-07. From 2007-08, the amount of scholarship was also enhanced to a lump sum amount of Rs.20,000/- per scholarship and total number has also been increased to 100. Department of Science & Technology also initiated Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Program to identify talented students early to create the desired human resource base in basic science for the country. The details about the INSPIRE scheme are available in the section “Unique Pioneering Programs by DST”.

Nurturing & Branding ExcellenceStar College SchemeUndergraduate science education has not been accorded priority in the last several years which has resulted in lack of conceptual clarity and weak fun-damentals in students graduating out

of Indian universities which could be due to vacant faculty positions, lack of availability of competent faculty and laboratory infrastructure. To overcome this deficiency, the Department of Bio-technology has initiated “Star College Scheme” to brand and nurture excel-lence in science departments in colleges and universities offering undergraduate education. Objectives of the program are outlined in the box below:

STAR COLLEgE SChEME Objectives :1. Nurturing and branding excellence at undergraduate level• Strengthen academic and physical infrastructure• ‘Hands–on’ exposure • Dissolving and merging of bound- aries of different science department• Emphasis of innovative inter-dis ciplinary, inter-departmental minor research projects for UG students. • Networking with neighbouring institutions• Faculty improvement programmes• Workshops for students, laboratory staff• To increase capabilities of core instrumentation resources and better library facility to students and teachers• To provide access and exposure to students to research laboratories and industries in the country• To devise standard curricula and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) / kits for practicals

2. Holistic development of selected colleges by supporting all science departments

PROGRAMME DOES NOT ENVISAGE STARTING OF NEW BIOTECHNOLOGY COURSES

DR SUMAN gOvILAdviser, DBT


DBTThe Enablers

of coordinator is given in the compendium in the last section of this book. Based on review of progress after completion of 3 years, performing departments of few colleges have been accorded “Star Department Status”. The Department has taken a conscious decision not to initiate undergraduate courses in biotechnology as it is a highly specialized, inter-disciplinary and laboratory intensive course. Often, faculty expertise and laboratory infrastructure is lacking in undergraduate institu-tions and specialisation at undergraduate level narrows down future career options for students. Star College Scheme was initiated in 2008 and 96 colleges have been supported so far. The Department is very selective in providing support under this program which is evident from number of proposals received and supported year wise (Fig. 1 is shown below).

The program envisages holistic devel-opment by strengthening laboratory infrastructure in science departments of selected colleges, training the trainers and emphasis on practical training and research exposure through minor re-search projects, exposure visits to near-by research institutions and industries to undergraduate students, etc. Criteria for selection and budget provision by the department under 2 categories are outlined in the boxes below:

Initially, no college was selected under the Star College component and all the colleges were supported under strengthening component. List of colleges covering details such as name of college, departments supported, year of support by DBT and contact details

TwO CATEgORIES OF SUPPORT UNDER STAR COLLEgE SChEME

CRITERIA OF SELECTION Strengthening of support for UG in life sciences (less stringent)• Rural /Tribal / Urban / Girls • Existing infrastructure and per student expenditure in last 3 years by different science departments• No. of years in existence • No. of ongoing science courses• No. of regular/contractual faculty per department (qualification relax)• Recognition by UGC / AICTE/ NAAC/ DSTStar college status (highly selective)• No. of years – minimum 10 years• No of faculty with Ph.D.• Minimum no. of ongoing 4-5 life science courses & 1-2 applied courses• Existing infrastructure & per student expenditure in last 3 years• Recognition by UGC/ AICTE/ NAAC/DST• Cut off percentage for admission, drop out rate & percentage of result

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13

NO. OF PROPOSALS RECEIVED NO. OF COLLEGES SUPPORTED

5855

21

08

69

31

40

1515

07

35

BUDgET PROvISION

1. Strengthening of support for UG in life sciences• One time non recurring grant of Rs. 5 lakhs per selected science department • Rs. 2 lakhs recurring grant per year per selected science department.

2. Star college status• One time non recurring grant of Rs. 10 lakhs per selected science department • Rs. 3 lakhs recurring grant per year per selected science department.

NO. OF PROPOSALS RECEIvED AND SUPPORTED UNDER STAR COLLEgE SChEMEFig. 1


DBT The Enablers

STAR STATUS (6)

STRENGTHENING (69)

DISCONTINUED* (21)*Discontinued after successful completion of initial tenure

Distribution of colleges supported under the scheme on Map of India shows Pan India presence (Fig. 2 is shown below)

Fig. 2

COLLEgES SUPPORTED UNDER “STAR COLLEgE SChEME”as on November 2013

Map not to scale

ImphalThoubai

Tezpur

(1)

Srinagar

UdhampurJammu

Amritsar(2)

Jalandhar(3)Kapurthala Jagraon

Chandigarh

MandiKangraShimla

Patiala

Karnal

Delhi(7) (3)

Rajkot

Chennai

Coimbatore

Bikaner

Varanasi(2)

Hoogli Aizawl

Nambol

Nagaon(2)Guwahati

Shillong (3)

UnakotiHailakandiKarimganj

Durg

Kolkata(2)

GorakhpurKamrup

Ahmedabad(1)

Jalgaon Amravati(2)

Kalyan Wardha

Mumbai(2)

Kolhapur

Ernakulum

Thiruvananthapuram(2)

Pune(3)

Mangalore (2)

Tiruchirapalli

(2)

(3)

(2)

(2)

(1)

Mysore

Bengaluru

(1)

Dhule

Ahmednagar

Madurai(2)

Hyderabad

Berhampur

Warangai

GoalparaJodhpur


DBTThe Enablers


Small investment made under the scheme has paid rich dividends which is evident from positive changes in quantitative parameters by participating colleges such as higher cut off percentages in admission to under graduate science courses (Fig. 3 is shown below),

B.SC.(H) BOTANY

B.SC.(H) CHEMISTRY

B.SC.(H) ZOOLOGY

B.SC.(H) PHYSICS

B.SC.(H) MICROBIOLOGY

B.SC.LIFE SCIENCE

B.SC.PYSICALSCIENCE

74%80%

76%90%

76%83%

78%90%

90%91%

70%70%

66%71%

BEFORE

BEFORE

AFTER

AFTER

BEFORE AFTER

CUT OFF % FOR ADMISSION at St. Anthony’s College, Shillong

Source: Fr. Ioannis Warpakma, St. Anthony’s College

BOTANY

CHEMISTRY

PHYSICS

ZOOLOGY

BIOCHEMISTRY45%

45%

45%

45%

45%

51%

51%

51%

51%

51%

55%60%BIOTECHNOLOGY

decrease in drop out rates (Fig. 4 is shown below),

CUT OFF % FOR ADMISSION at Gargi College, Delhi

Source: Dr. Shashi Tyagi, Gargi College

% DROPOUT RATE AT Ug LEvEL at College of Veterinary Sciences & Animal Husbandary, SKUAST of Kashmir, J&K

Source: Dr. N.Ganai, SKUAST, J&K

0

5

10

15

20

25

2005

-06

2006

-07

2010

-11

2009

-10

2008

-09

2007

-08

2011

-12

2012

-13

2013

-14

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Fig. 3 Fig. 3

Fig. 4

BEFORE AFTER


ZOOLOGY BOTANY CHEMISTRY PHYSICS MICROBIOLOGY

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

2008-09 2008-09 2008-092009-10 2009-10 2009-102010-11 2010-11 2010-112011-12 2011-12 2011-122012-13 2012-13 2012-132013-14 2013-14 2013-14

B.Sc.(H) Botany B.Sc.(H) Chemistry B.Sc.(H) Physics

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13

B.Sc. Physical Science

2007-09 (BEFORE) 2010-13 (AFTER)

0

10

20

30

40

50

% DROPOUT RATE AT Ug LEvEL at Gargi College, Delhi

Source: Dr. Shashi Tyagi, Gargi College

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140B.Sc.(H) Microbiology B.Sc.(H) Zoology B.Sc.Life Science

2008-09 2008-09 2008-092009-10 2009-10 2009-102010-11 2010-11 2010-112011-12 2011-12 2011-122012-13 2012-13 2012-132013-14 2013-14

increase in number of applicants vis-à-vis sanctioned student strength, filling up of sanctioned seats, better results and positions in university UG exams as well as higher success rate in admission to PG science courses (Fig. 5 is shown on the right side), by most of the participating colleges.

ENROLLMENT IN HIGHER STUDIES in Gargi College, DelhiSource: Dr. Shashi Tyagi, Gargi College

DBT The Enablers

Fig. 4

Fig. 5


BEFORE

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

B.SC. (HONS.) B.SC. (ELECTIVE) M.SC.

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

The program has resulted in inter-departmental collaborations (innovative inter-departmental projects, projects for students from other departments). Provi-sion of latest laboratory equipment and multiple copies of routine equipment required for practical training and access to costly consumables has resulted in inclusion of number of practicals and demonstrations which could not be done earlier due to lack of adequate laboratory infra-structure. Students are also getting research exposure in form of minor research projects in areas of relevance, as an example, blood grouping, flora and fauna of campus, potability of water, safety of milk and dairy products etc. A large number of resources in the form of laboratory man-uals, standard operating procedures have been generated (Annexure-I). Students and faculty have been provided opportunities for interaction with leading experts through exposure visits, seminars, and exhibitions. The program has also resulted in outreach activities for students and teachers from schools and other colleges. Student feed-back, feedback by mentors, advisory committee mem-bers and expert committee of DBT have led to constant improvement which is also reflected in improved NAAC rankings of these colleges. The program has made a good beginning and sustained growth with emphasis on quality education will be the key parameters in evaluating success on a long term basis.

Other similar programs of University Grants Commis-sion (UGC) namely Colleges with Potential for Excellence (CPE) and FIST program for undergraduate colleges by Department of Science & Technology (DST) are also providing the desired impetus and boost to undergraduate education in science.

Postgraduate Teaching Programs in Biotechnology

(MSc /MTech /MVSc /MPharma)

Most of the Indian universities are facing acute shortage of teaching faculty and are unable to attract meritorious stu-dents to pursue postgraduate studies. Students are reluctant to take up science courses perhaps due to long gestation peri-od and lack of job opportunities with remuneration appropri-ate to qualification. Moreover, quality of education especially in science due to lack of appropriate practical training is a serious issue. Laboratory facilities, functional equipment and costly consumables, outdated curricula and in-house expertise in rapidly advancing areas of science act as major deterrents in imparting quality education.

M.SC. GENERAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

M.SC. MARINEBIOTECHNOLOGY

M.SC. AGRICULTURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

M.SC. MEDICALBIOTECHNOLOGY

M.V.SC. ANIMALBIOTECHNOLOGY

M. TECH. M.SC. NEUROSCIENCES

M.SC. INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

M.SC. ENVIRONMENTALBIOTECHNOLOGY

M.SC. BIORESOURCESBIOTECHNOLOGY

MASTER IN MOLECULARAND HUMAN GENETICS

33

5

222

11

11

13

9

Fig.6

AREA wISE NO. OF UNIvERSITIESCONDUCTINg Pg COURSESIN BIOTEChNOLOgYTotal No. of Universities 70


Fig. 5

ENROLLMENT IN hIghER STUDIES in D.A,V. College, Chandigarh

Source: Dr. B.C. Josan, DAV College

Development of Human Resource potential in the area of Biotechnology, Bioinformatics. Biotechnology is the use of technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or deriv-atives thereof to make or modify products of processes for specific use essentially helpful to mankind. It was fermentation technology used for the production of life saving drugs that marked the beginning. The pro-cess further culminated into the sound knowledge of structure and function of DNA, production of insulin, stomatostatin as the recombinant DNA technology products that served the mankind.

To select this path progress, one needs to be knowl-edgeable, hard-working, skilled, research oriented and socially committed.

The school takes pride in providing younger gen-eration with an ambience of learning that culminates into a holistic, character-building ethos that has result-ed in the creation of globally competitive graduates.

Establishment of Contract Research Facility. Incubator Centre: Industry academic interventions are harnessed through VSBT incubator center.

This knowledge creation, expansion, idea-sharing and hands-on lab sessions enlighten the academic vision and strengthen scholarly efforts of teachers, re-searchers and students at VSBT.

The institution has set up an incubation centre which provides expertise and infrastructure for startup companies. It also provide services in the high end ar-eas of genomics and proteomics. Services in Molecular Biology, Tissue culture, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Cell Preservation. Basic Sciences, Virology, Fermen-tation Technology and Bioinformatics are a distinct feature of this centre. Students as well as faculty thus get an exposure to real time problems.

Extra murals funded research projects are under-taken by all a scientific staff of VSBT. The project range from novel SiRNA technology for Tuberculosis to SSR mapping of Indian Honey bees. Antibacterial peptides to metabolic engineering of geranium. Sysgenic trans-formation in economically important crops to epitope mapping of disease causing viruses. Vector transmitted zoonotic disease to production of probiotic contenting animal feed. Formulation of nutraceuticals to vaccine adjuvants.

Upon recognizing the role of stem cells in regenera-tive medicine, a stem cells and regeneration laboratory has been setup at VSBT in 2010.

Public advocacy centre for information dissemina-tion to relevant target groups on regular basis.Establishment of centre of excellence in molecular level studies in biodiversity.

OBJECTIVESACADEMIC COURSES

PROPOSED

LABORATORY

M.Sc. BiotechnologyB.Sc. BiotechnologyB.Sc. Agricultural Biotechnology

M.S. Chemistry with Biotechnology (North Caroline Wilmington, USA)

B. Tech. Dairy Technology (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

B.Sc. Agricultural Biotechnology (VHL University, The Netherlands)

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Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Agricul-tural Biotechnology, Animal Biotechnology, Plant Biotechnology, Stem cell, Virology, Microbiology and Biochemistry, Environmental Biotechnology, Fermentation Technology and Experimental Farm

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M.Sc. General Biotechnology (2 years)

M.Sc. Agricultural Biotechnology (2 years)

M.Sc. Plant Biotechnology (2years)

M.V.Sc. Animal Biotechnology (2 years)

Master in Medical Biotechnology (2 years)

Master in Molecular and Human Genetics (2 years)

M.Sc. Marine Biotechnology (2 years)

M.Sc. Neuroscience (2/3 years)

M.Sc. Industrial Biotechnology

M.Sc. Environmental Biotechnology

M. Tech. Food Biotechnology (2 years)

M. Tech Biochemistry Engg. & Biotechnology (5 years integrated/ 4 semesters/ 2 years)

M.Tech Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (2 years)

M.Sc. Bioresources and Biotechnology ( 2years)

Fig.7

The Department of Biotechnology took a well informed decision to initiate postgraduate teaching programs in biotechnology way back in 1985-86 in 6 universities. Universities were selected on the basis of in-house core faculty strength, infrastructural facilities, ex-tra-mural funding received on compet-

itive basis, nearby institutions engaged in biotechnology R&D etc. India can take pride in the fact that we are one of the first few countries in the world to initiate PG teaching program in bio-technology. These have been expanded to over 70 universities in general as well as specialized areas of biotechnology

keeping in mind the requirement for specialized manpower such as agri-cultural, medical, veterinary, pharma, environmental, marine, industrial biotechnology and regional balance.(Fig. 6 is shown on page 24)

(Fig.7 is shown on below)

UNIvERSITIES/ INSTITUTES OFFERINg M.SC./ M.TECh TEAChINg PROgRAMMES IN BIOTEChNOLOgY IN INDIA wITh DBT SUPPORTAs on March, 2014

SRINAGARRAjOURI

jAMMU

ALIGARH

LUCKNOWALLAHABADKANPUR

CHENNAI

BANASTHALI

HYDERABAD

GULBARGA

COIMBATOREANNAMALAI

TIRUPATI

MYSORE

PONDICHERRYMADURAI

CALICUT

BARODANAGPUR

PUNE

KOLHAPUR

GOA

KOCHI

INDOREANAND

GARHWAL

ROORKEE

SHIMLA

TEZPURSHILLONG

PALAMPUR

RAIPUR

DHARWAD

BANGALORE

THRISSUR

FAIZABAD

PARBHANI

PANTNAGAR

CHANDIGARHMOHALI

HISSAR

jABALPUR

DELHI

GURGAON

GWALIOR SAMASTIPUR

AMRITSAR

SILIGURI

BHAGALPUR

SHANTINIKETANBURDWAN

KOLKATTAKHARAGPUR

BHUBANESWAR

VARANASI

jORHAT



APPLICANTS APPEARED

Expansion of PG program since its inception is depicted in Fig. 8 shown below.

NO. OF M.Sc./M.Tech. COURSES IN BIOTECh FUNDED BY DBT DURINg DIFFERENT PLAN PERIODS

1985

-199

0

1990

-199

5

1995

-200

0

2000

-200

1

2001

-200

2

2002

-200

7

2007

-201

1

25

20

15

10

5

0

10

06 06

09

01

24

14

The Department has taken decision not to support any new teaching programs in general biotechnology as 33 courses have already been supported. Liberal grants are provided for pur-chase of equipment routinely required for class room teaching and training as well as liberal annual recurring grant under consumables, books and journals, travel, contingency, equip-ment maintenance and summer/winter training. 6 months in-house dissertation is mandatory and Department is providing thesis grant of Rs.50,000/- per student to ensure good quality hands on training. To give a true all India representation and to select good quality students, candidates for DBT support-ed teaching programs are selected on All India basis through Common Entrance Test (CET) conducted by JNU or IIT-Joint admission test or University examination test. All selected candidates are offered studentships. To ensure good quality students and to minimize over-age and uninterested students, students passing out in the year of admission or previous year only are eligible for DBT supported courses. List of universi-ties conducting DBT supported program covering details of name of degree, year of support, sanctioned student strength, eligibility, mode of admission, studentship offered, number of faculty and course coordinator is given in the compendium in the last section of this book. Due to the hype created in terms

of potential of biotechnology, several private and public sector universities initiated PG teaching programs in biotechnology resulting in over one lakh students coming out every year. Gap in demand and supply of biotechnology students, large number of unemployable students coming out of universities which do not have competent faculty and laboratory infrastructure, stringent selection process for admission to DBT supported courses and availability of biotechnology course in nearby university has also indirectly impacted admission to DBT supported courses which is evident from a decline in number of applicants for admission to M.Sc. (General, Agricultural and Veterinary) biotechnology through JNU-CET during last five years (Fig. 9,10 &11 is shown below).

APPLICANTS APPEARED

NO. OF APPLICANTS/APPEARED FOR JNU-CET FOR M.Sc. BIOTEChNOLOgY

NO. OF APPLICANTS/APPEARED FOR JNU-CET FOR M.Sc.(AgRI) & M.vSc. BIOTEChNOLOgY

2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

2000

4000

6000

8000

10000

12000

14000

16000

18000

20000 1840517036

1200210810

79857168 6665

5437

1476316657

Fig.9

Fig.10

2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

729

900

703

898

719 738

887

736

606655

Fig.8


DBT The Enablers

APPLICANTS APPEARED

Fig.12

NO. OF APPLICANTS/APPEARED FOR JNU-CET FOR M.Tech. BIOTEChNOLOgYFig.11

2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

1600

1800

15371713

1265

1542

1089 1177

945

644

908

1201

Model course curricula are framed once every three or five years in consultation with all stakeholders namely present and past students, faculty members, representatives from industry as well as comparison with international curricula. Curriculum offers provision for bridge/remedial courses for students from different backgrounds, core courses, optional courses, journal club, IPR and regulation, research meth-odology as well as latest advancements with flexibility to adapt and adopt keeping in mind the in-house expertise and infrastructure. In view of good practical training and research exposure provided to students of DBT supported teaching programs; students perform well in national level competitive exams for research fellowships conducted by CSIR, UGC, DBT, DAE and ICMR. An analysis of first placement of students coming out of DBT supported teaching programs shows more than 50 percent students opt for PhD in pre-mier research institutions and universities namely NCBS, Bangalore, TIFR, Mumbai, IISC, Bangalore, ICGEB, New Delhi, CCMB, CDFD, Hyderabad, NCCS, Pune, NII, NIPGR, AIIMS, New Delhi etc. 12-15 percent students opt for indus-tries. As an example, Pune University students have found placements through campus interviews in leading companies such as Biocon, Lupin, Ranbaxy, Hindustan Lever, Dr. Red-dy’s Lab, Emuse, Serum Institute etc. Placement of M.Sc from Pune university is shown in Fig. 12 .

PLACEMENT OF M.Sc. BIOTEChNOLOgY STUDENTS IN LAST 5 YEARSSource: Prof. J.K. Pal, University of Pune

PH. D. (USA) | 2

PH. D. (GERMANY) | 3

PH.D. (INDIA) :

NII & AIIMS | 8 each

CCMB | 5

NCCS | 4

IISC, IMTECH, NCL,NCASR, NIPGR & WBUT | 3 each

ACTREC, BHU, CDFD, CDRI, ICGEB, jNU & UNIVERSITY OF PUNE | 1 each

jOBS IN INDUSTRY (INDIA):

PRAj INDUSTRIES | 3

BIOCON | 2

jOBS IN ACADEMIA (INDIA):UNIVERSITY | 2 lecturers

IIT & BARC | 3 each

HIGHER STUDIES (INDIA):M.B.A. | 1



TABLE 3

As expected, around 50 % M.Tech. students join industries. Illustrative list of technologies perfected and technologies under commercialization, placement of M Tech students at ICT, Mumbai is given in Table 1,2 & 3.

TABLE 1

PARTIAL LIST OF TEChNOLO-gIES DEvELOPED BY M. Tech. STUDENTSSource: Prof. A.K. Lali, ICT, Mumbai

1. AbSep (pseudoaffinity adsorbent)for novel and protein-An alternative platform technology for purification of monoclonal and polyclonal anti-bodies from cell cultures and plasma respectively

2. Plasma fractionation into albumin, IgG and Fibrinogen

3. Adsorptive separation of rifamy-cin, vancomycin, penicillin, adipoyl -7-ADCA from their fermentation broths

4. Extraction and purification of artemisinin from Artemisia annua

5. Fermentative production and DSP of clavulinic acid

6. Isolation of plasmid DNA

7. Solar drying technology for vege-tables, food product and biotech products

8. Hydrotropic extraction of curcumin

9. Novel impeller designs for bioreactor

10. Extraction of prolamin proteins and their application into nanopar-ticles

11. Extraction and purification of different lutein esters from marigold

12. Immobilized preparations of lipases for hydrolysis and esterifica-tion reactions

TABLE 2

TEChNOLOgIES DEvELOPED AND IN COMMERCIALIZATIONSource: Prof. A.K. Lali, ICT, Mumbai

1. Technology for simultaneous desolventization, toasting, hydrolysis and detoxification for making improved defatted meals as nourishing materialsa) Cotton seed mealb) Rape seed mealc) Caster seed meal (to be applied)

2. Novel oil miscella and oil refining technologya) Cotton seed oilb) Rape seed oil (to be applied)c) Sunflower oil (to be applied)

3) Technology for making Lecithin with PC >50% and PC >70% from crude lecithin (PC: >98% @ level)

4) Technology for production of Artemisinin and its derivatives from Artemisia leaves, as antimalarialsa) Artemisininb) Artesunate (oral grade)c) Artesunate (Injectable grade)

S. NO. YEAR NO. OF STUDENTS IN CLASS

NO. OF STUDENTS RECEIVED

PLACEMENT

STUDENTS OPTED FOR PHD (India +Abroad)

AVERAGE SALARY (Lakhs/Annum)

HIGHEST SALARY OFFERED

(Lakhs/Annum)

1 2005-07 29 18 10+2 (11) 1.7 2.4

2 2006-08 30 21 8+1 (9) 1.7 3.0

3 2007-09 27 14 13+0 (13) 1.8 3.2

4 2008-10 30 10 12+0 (12) 1.8 3.5

5 2009-11 26 15 11+0 (11) 2.2 5.1

6 2010-12 23 17 04 (+ 2 PhD abroad)

2.4 4.5

7 2011-13 29 24 2 (+01 PhD abroad)

4.7 8.1

8 2012-14 33 01* 03 - -

9 2013-15 33 Currently in first year - -

Several students of DBT supported teaching programs are occupying faculty po-sitions in leading universities and institutions in the country and a few students have set up their own enterprises and have become CEOs of companies. Similarly, pool of

PLACEMENT OF M.Tech. STUDENTS OF ICT, MUMBAISource: Prof. A.K. Lali, ICT, Mumbai


The EnablersThe Enablers DBT

talented faculty members created under the teaching program have risen to leadership positions and have received extra-mural funding on competitive basis and are publishing papers in high impact journals. The support provided by DBT for teaching programs in bio-technology has not only strengthened teaching and research in biotechnology but allied life sciences area as a whole.

M.Sc. /M.Tech. in Computational BiologyTo meet the requirements of highly trained manpower in application of software tools for solving molecular biology problems, MSc in Computa-tional Biology for students from bio-logical and physical sciences has been initiated by the Department at Madurai Kamraj University, Madurai, Anna University, Chennai and Pondicherry

University from 2013. MTech in Com-putational Biology at JNU, New Delhi, MSc in Bio-informatics at Pune Univer-sity and PG Diploma in Bio-informatics at Calcutta University, Kolkata have also been supported.

Uncontrolled initiation of new courses in biotechnology without proper analysis of demand and supply of manpower as well as lack of emphasis on quality of education has resulted in a large pool of students who are virtually unemployable. Systematic and inno-vative approach for overhaul of system and effective inter-agency communi-cation for accreditation of institutions keeping in mind the quality aspects is urgently required.

Bridging Skill gapsBiotechnology Industrial Training ProgramTo bridge the skill gaps between the students produced by the universities

and requirements of the industries, the DBT initiated Biotech Industrial Training Program (BITP) in 1993-94 to provide industrial exposure for a period of 6 months. This program is mutually beneficial as it provides an exposure to students to real life situa-tions in industry and an opportunity for industry to assess the prospective manpower for employment. Initially, this program was meant for students coming out of DBT supported teach-ing programs only and industries were cautious and agreed to train limited number of students. Introduction of bench fee as fee for trainer industries and extension of eligibility to B Tech /MSc and M Tech students from any recognized universities in 2007 led to expansion in number of applicants as well as spurt in number of trainees requested by the industries.

(Fig. 13 is shown below &14 is shown on the next page)

2013 - 2014

1867

1248

790

585

2012 - 2013

2524

1225

781

590

2008 - 2009

2902

1234

687

502

2007 - 2008

4230

1210

587

396

2009 - 2010

3062

1537

748

505

2010 - 2011

3670

2160

955

652

2011 - 2012

2972

2461

1006

650

NO. OF CANDIDATES SELECTED

NO. OF CANDIDATES TRAINED

NO. OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED

NO. OF CANDIDATES SHORTLISTED

TREND ANALYSIS OF CANDIDATES SELECTED FOR BITPFig.13


DBT The EnablersDBT

PARTICIPATINg COMPANIES UNDER BITP DURINg 2007-13

SECTOR wISE DISTRIBUTION OF TRAINEES

127

102114

146 156 154

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13

R & DPRODUCTION/

MANUFACTURINGMARKETING/

MANAGEMENTQA/ QC BIOINFORMATICSCLINICAL TRIALSIPR

70.2 %

77.9 %

76.2 %

75.3 %

74.3 %

67.5 %

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

16.9 %

10.4 %

11.5 %

10.9 %

11.5 %

15.8 %

5.6 %

3.6 %

9.5 %

6.9 %

6.8 %

11.9 %

3.0 %

5.2 %

1.6 %

3.8 %

4.8 %

2.2 %

1.3 %

2.0 %

0.8 %

1.5 %

0.9 %

0.7 %

2.5 %

0.8 %

0.2 %

0.5 %

1.7 %

1.9 %

0.5 %

0.2 %

0.2 %

1.1 %

0.2 %

0.2 %

Number of organizations involved in BITP training and number of candidates trained and absorbed under BITP program in companies in India is shown in Fig. 15 on the next page & 16 is shown on page no.40 in Annexure II and Annexure-II. 25 to 30 % students find placement in trainer industry or allied industries. Monthly online feedback by trainees and companies shows that this program offers training in handling state-of-art equipment, understanding of work environment, analytical and communication skills. Pro-active participation of industries and timely placement of trainees could help in ensuring placement to larger number of trainees.

Rigorous selection process comprising of online multiple choice based exam followed by interview is undertaken to ensure selection of quality candidates. Placement of selected candidates is based on matchmaking of profile of students with require-ment of trainer companies. Analysis of sector wise distribution of trainees shows more than 70 percent trainees opt for R&D (Table 4 is shown below).

Fig.14

Table 4



map not to scale

NO. OF COMPANIES

NUMBER OF ORgANISATIONS INvOLvED IN BITP TRAININg DURINg 2007-2013

HIMACHALPRADESH

PUNjAB

HARYANA

UTTARPRADESH

MADHYAPRADESH

ANDHRAPRADESH

TAMIL NADU

ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLAND

KARNATAKA

GUjARAT

MAHARASHTRA

KERALA

GOA

PONDICHERRY

RAjASTHAN

UTTARAKHANDCHANDIGARH

DELHI

BIHAR

CHATTISGARH

ASSAM

MIZORAMMIZORAM

ORISSA

1

9

27

33

717

71

16

47

1

3

4

3

43

62

4

6

4

115

15

107

111

Karnataka Biotechnology Finishing School Program

The Department has provided support to Karnataka Biotechnology Finish-ing School Program from 2011-12 to bridge skill gap between requirements of industry and students produced by universities. The program aims to provide necessary hands-on and academic skills leading to enhanced employability of students in industry. The program is gaining popularity with the students as evident from increase in number of students trained from 87 in first batch to 135 in 3rd batch. 81% students from 1st batch have been successfully placed in pharma, health, agri-biotech, bioinformatics and service sector. Few students

opt for higher studies. Further details about this program are available under the section on ‘Bridging Programs’.

Fellowships for Doctoral ResearchTo provide opportunities for con-ducting doctoral research to stu-dents coming out of DBT supported teaching programs and to provide manpower to assist universities involved in PG teaching to overcome faculty crunch, the Department initiated DBT-JRF program in 2004. The program was implemented by University of Pune from 2004 to 2012 and implementation has been shifted to NCCS, Pune from 2012 onwards. It is a dynamic program and sever-al mid-term corrections have been incorporated to improve the pro-gram. In the first year, students were selected by conducting interviews and 2 JRFs were provided to univer-sities conducting DBT supported teaching programs. This graduated to a written test conducted at several centres from 2nd year. From 2007, eligibility was extended to B Tech /MSc /M Tech biotechnology students from any recognized university in the country. There is provision to provide 250 fellowships in 2 categories namely category A – top 100 students in the merit list in DBT-BET (Biotechnology Eligibility Test) can join any universi-ty or research institute of their choice and Category B - next 150 students in merit list can join DBT supported teaching programs or autonomous institutions of DBT with a maximum of 3 students per year per institute. To facilitate participation by larger number of students, selection through single session online exam has been introduced at 50 centres in 12 cities from 2013. The program has gained immense popularity with students, which is evident from increase in number of applicants depicted in fig 17(shown on next page).

Fig.15


DBT The EnablersDBT

DISTRIBUTION OF STUDENTS BY STATESource: Prof. J.K. Pal, University of Pune

0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13

272 (43)

417 (99)

1799 (100)

2551 (200)

3027 (250)

4964 (250)

5932 (250)

6614 (250)

6007 (275)

NO. OF APPLICANTS FIGURES IN BRACKET SHOWS CANDIDATES SELECTED

Although provision for 250 fellow-ships per year exists, around 90 students have availed DBT fellowship in last several years. Based on feed-back from coordinators of teaching programs and students, Category A and B have been merged from 2014 to give flexibility to students to join PhD in any institute or university of their choice and separate syllabus for DBT-BET exam has been formulated from 2014. Efforts have been made to cre-ate a forum for interaction with JRFs and supervisors to make the program student friendly and to resolve issues related to submission of documents, disbursement of funds, and feedback on question paper, syllabus and all academic and administrative issues by conducting regional meets. Students are registered for PhD in research institutions in all parts of the coun-try reflecting a true all India repre-sentation. (Fig. 18 is shown below)

MANIPAL1

HIMACHALPRADESH

j&K

PUNjAB

HARYANA

RAjASTHAN

GUjARAT

MAHARASHTRA

GOA

PONDICHERRY

TAMIL NADUKERALA

KARNATAKA

ANDHRA PRADESH

MADHYA PRADESH

UTTAR PRADESH

WEST BENGAL

ASSAM

MEGHALAYAORISSA

BIHAR

DELHI

UTTARANCHAL

107

22

7

7

35

9

2

4

47

4

4

227

22

25

4

52

23

2

210

5

map not to scale

Fellowships for Post Doctoral ResearchThe Department initiated DBT-PDF (Post Doctoral Fellowship) program in 2001 to retain biotechnology PhDs in the country and to provide post doc-toral exposure in frontier areas of life sciences and biotechnology at premier institutions in the country. The pro-gram is being coordinated by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. There is provision for 100 fellowships per year. Initially, fellowship is provided for a period of two years which can be extended based on review of progress. The program is advertised twice every year and selection is made on the basis of project proposal submitted by appli-cants followed by presentation before the Expert Committee. The program is very popular amongst students, which is evident from increase in number of applicants in last few years (Fig. 19). Selection process is very stringent which is clear from the number of selected candidates vis-a-vis number

NO. OF APPLICANTS vS NO. OF CANDIDATES SELECTED FOR DBT-JRFFig.17

Fig.18



map not to scale

of applicants as depicted in Fig. 19. Generally, students are encouraged to join an institute other than from where they have completed Ph.D. Post doc-toral fellows are distributed in researchinstitutions in all parts of country(Fig. 20 is shown below). Students availing this fellowship have risen to leadership faculty positions in leading universities and research institutions in the country. This program, being first of its kind in the country, has inculcated post doctoral culture and has helped in retaining students in the country. Due to its marked success, this program has been emulated by several other funding agencies in the country.

APPLICATION RECEIVED FELLOWSHIP AWARDED

NUMBER OF APPLICANTS AND FELLOwShIPS AwARDED UNDER DBT-RA

2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

232257

354

431

349

92 91 80 79 68

DISTRIBUTION OF DBT-RA’S PURSUINg POST DOCTORAL FELLOwS IN INDIASource: Prof. Muniyappa, IISc, Bangalore

Asterisk denotes the States where DBT-RA’s are pursuing training

jAMMU & KASHMIR

HIMACHAL PRADESH

UTTARPRADESH

ARUNACHALPRADESH

MADHYAPRADESH

ANDHRAPRADESH

TAMILNADU

WESTBENGAL

UTTARAKHANDPUNjAB

HARYANA

KERALA

RAjASTHAN

GUjARAT

BIHARASSAM

MANIPUR

MIZORAM

TRIPURA

MEGHALAYA

SIKKIM

ORISSA

KARNATAKA

MAHARASHTRA

Fig.19

Fig.20


DBT The EnablersDBT

22%

7%

8%

4%

3%

3%

2%

17%

16%

5%

10%

2%

1%

wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance FellowshipsThe Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance, a not for profit trust, registered in India, is supporting growth of biomedical research in India. The alliance is award-ing fellowships in 4 categories namely

TABLE 5: SUMMARY OF APPLICATIONS IN 2013

SECTOR-wISE DISTRIBUTION OF wELLCOME TRUST DBT INDIA ALLIANCE FELLOwSSource : Dr. Rajesh Kapur, DBT

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

STEM CELL BIOLOGY

NEUROSCIENCE

IMMUNOLOGY

BIOCHEMISTRY/CELL BIOLOGY

BIOINFORMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

EPIDEMIOLOGY

BIOENGINEERING

PUBLIC HEALTH

MOLECULAR MEDICINE

DEVELOPMENT BIOLOGY

BIOPHYSICS

FELLoWSHIP LEVEL APPLICATIoNS RECEIVED FELLoWSHIPS AWARDED

ToTAL MALE FEMALE ToTAL MALE FEMALE

EARLy CAREER 91 55 36 06 01 05

INTERMEDIATE 124 89 35 16 13 03

SENIoR 37 26 11 01 01 -

MARGDARSHI 15 13 02 - - -

CLINICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH 20 12 08 02 02 -

Early Career, Intermediate, Senior and Margdarshi fellowships. The objective of the program is to establish, build and nurture talent in biomedical research by attracting best Indian scientists working abroad to return to India and to nurture Indian scientists to meet international standards. Since 2010, 112 fellowships have been awarded across the spectrum of biomedical sciences (Fig. 21 is shown

below).Outreach of India alliance has increased and fellows are distributed in 41 different institutions across the country. Details of applications received in different categories and fellowships awarded are shown in Table 5. These fellowships are gaining popularity with consistent increase in number of appli-cants and sponsoring institutions over the last few years.

Fig.21



MD/MS Thesis grantResearch grant to support MD/MS the-sis to PG students of medical colleges from North-Eastern region of India was initiated in 2010 to promote good quality research by clinicians. Support is provided for data collection, minor equipment, books and learning re-sources, manuscript writing and travel for participation in conference. Over 80 medical students have benefited during 2011-13 and a large number of applications have been received during 2013-14.

Khorana Program for Scholars The Khorana Program for Scholars is a tripartite arrangement between Department of Biotechnology, the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Madison (repre-senting partner US Universities), and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum to nurture contacts between students in the field of biotechnology and biomedical sciences from India and US.

It is a summer internship program of 10-12 weeks duration (named in honour of the Nobel laureate Dr. Har Gobind Khorana) for Indian graduate and postgraduate students in premier US Universities (University of Iowa, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Michigan State University, Indiana University, Georgetown University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, MIT and University of Wisconsin-Madi-son).

Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP)Realising the need to focus on innovation and entrepreneurship development, Department is provid-ing support for organizing EDP in

Biotechnology for setting up of new viable biotech ventures by prospective entrepreneurs. An entrepreneurship development program for advanced training and setting up of small biotech industry in North Eastern region was organized by Biotech Consortium India Ltd, New Delhi, to assist budding entrepreneurs by providing guidance and technical support at different stages from con-cept to commissioning for setting up of biotech ventures in 5 areas namely micropropagation, biofertilizers and biopesticides production, herbal plant extraction, orchid culture and second-ary agriculture.

The program has created wide-spread awareness and led to inter-actions with various stakeholders such as Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises-Development Institute (MSME-DI), North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NEDFi), State Science and Technology Council, North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Cor-poration Ltd (NERAMAC), Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship, Na-tional Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Guwahati Biotech Park. Specific inputs and hand holding is provided to prospec-tive entrepreneurs on different aspect of business management and setting up of commercially viable enterprises such as sourcing of technology, fund-ing, skilled manpower, preparation of techno-economic feasibility reports and regulatory as well as statutory requirements to promote this activity.

BEST-India (Biotech-nology Entrepreneur-ship Student Teams)

BEST-India is a program initiated by DBT to nurture innovation and enterprise amongst young researchers and to train them in techno-manage-rial issues as well as encourage start-ups. This program is very successful

and has led to setting up of 6 start up companies:

• 2009 : “Sea6Energy” established by team from IIT, Madras

• 2009 : “Windmill Health” established by team from IIT, Bombay

• 2010 : “Pandorum Technologies Pvt. Ltd” team from IISC, Bangalore

• 2011 : “Damuscus Fortune” team from SASTRA Univ., Thanjavore

• 2012 : “Sashiusm Technologies-Innovation for Evolution” team from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

• 2012 : “BIOSIS” team from Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bangalore.

Popularisation ActivitiesTo provide opportunities for interac-tion with leading national and interna-tional experts and exposure to students and faculty by participation in inter-national workshops for presentation of their research outcome, the Depart-ment is providing support for holding seminar/symposia, organizing popular lectures by eminent scientists, travel support for participation in interna-tional conferences and exhibitions to show case products and technologies as well as different programs of the Department.

It is clear from the preceding paragraphs that the Govt. has made systematic and concerted efforts to encourage students to take up basic sciences and to nurture their talent to provide the necessary human resource for various activities in biotechnology in the country ■


DBT The EnablersDBT

S.NO. NAME OF COLLEGE WORKSHOP SOP’S/ LAB. MANUALS

1. Bhaskaracharya College, New Delhi 1. Food Microbiology Manual2. Human Genetics Manual 3. Molecular Biology Manual 4. Generation of virtual labs for Ames test or Reverse mutation test for screening substances for mutagenicity 5. Perform Southern Blot Hybridization 6. Detection of microbial load in a given sample.

2. Daulat Ram College, Delhi 1. Workshop on Genetics and Genomics2. An Introduction to Drosophila melanogaster

3. Ethiraj College, Chennai 1. Plant Biology & Plant Biotechnology manual 2. Refresher course on Troubleshooting in Physics experiments for Higher secondary school teachers3. Workshop on Biodiversity4. Workshop on Physics experiments for Higher Secondary school teachers

4. Gargi College, New Delhi 1. Laboratory manual for summer workshop 2009.2. Laboratory manual for summer workshop (Biological Science) 2010.3. Laboratory manual for summer school (Physical Science) 2010.4. Laboratory manual for Laboratory Staff on Techniques in sciences.5. Pictorial Database of higher plants growing in Gargi College Campus.6. Monograph on green chemistry.7. Laboratory manual for Semi-micro qualitative analysis8. Laboratory manual for Qualitative organic analysis

5. Govt. Vidarbha Institute of Science and Humanities, Amravati 1. Lab manual protocol

6. Holy Cross College, Tiruchirapalli 1. Manual on Biological Skills For Physical Sciences 2. National workshop on Green Techniques in Chemistry Laboratory Experiments 3. Manual for Botany Students4. Different manuals on Biostatics, Bioinformatics, Bio-diversity, Biology techniques

7. Khallikote College, Berhampur 1. Manual for bio-techniques and instrumentation

8. Mahila Mahavidyalaya, BHU, Varanasi 1. Laboratory Manual in Microbiology2. Laboratory Manual in Plant Ecology3. Experiments in Ecology4. Experiments in Microbiology

9. Maulana Azad College, Kolkatta 1. Lab manual of Botany2. Lab manual of Chemistry3. Lab manual of Physics4. Lab manual of Microbiology5. Lab manual of Zoology

10. Lady Doak College, Madurai 1. Fundamental techniques in Basic Science

Resources generated by Colleges Supported under Star College Scheme of DBT


The EnablersThe Enablers ANNEXURE I

11. PSG College, Coimbatore 1. Cheminformatics manual 2. Chemistry manual3. Workshop on commercial utilization of marine algae.4. Molecular techniques manual 5. Phycocolloids manual

12. Pachhunga University College, Aizawl 1. Teaching Kits 2. SoP’s and Lab manuals

13. St. Agnes College, Mangalore 1. Practicals in Botany 2. Practicals in Chemistry 3. Lab manual of Physics 4. New practicals in Microbiology 5. Physics manual 6. New practicals in Zoology

14. St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad 1. SoP’s and Lab manuals of Chemistry 2. SoP’s for Life Science and Biochemistry 3. SoP’s for Zoology 4. SoP’s for Microbiology

15. Thiagrajar College, Madurai 1. Lab manual2. Hand book3. Research Methodology 4. Course Material 5. Different extracts and Manual on Bioinformatics tools.

16. Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai 1. Complete SoP’s and Lab manual for use of different instruments

17. Darrang College, Sonitpur (Assam) 1. “Bioinstrumentation and biochemical methods for its application in Biological Sciences”

18. Seethlakshmi Ramaswami College, Tiruchirapalli 1. Lab manuals of different departments with CDs

19. St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad 1. Biochemistry work-book on metabolism 2. Laboratory manual and work-book (Electronics)3. Journal of Biochemistry, Vocational Biotechnology and Industrial chemistry.

20. St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai SoP’s of different instruments

21. UAS College, Warangal Laboratory and practical manuals

22. St. Andrews College, Gorakhpur Practical manuals

23. Maulana Azad College, Kolkata SoP’s / Lab manuals of beneficiary departments

24. Ethiraj College, Chennai Lab techniques and workshop manuals

25. Khalsa College, Amritsar Laboratory practicals of beneficiary departments

26. Janaki Devi Bajaj College, Wardha SoP’s / Reports of laboratory manuals

27. Padmashree Vikhe Patil College, Ahmednagar Lab manuals and SoP’s

28. Birla College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Kalyan Work-book on Bioinformatics


The EnablersANNEXURE I

Maharashtra

90305

Uttar PraDEsh

66528

taMIL NaDU

49224

OrIssa

34128

KarNataKa

237874

aNDhra PraDEsh

214641

KEraLa

2448

GUJarat

2294MaDhYa PraDEsh

1441

WEst BENGaL

958

ChattIsGarh

713

PUDUChErrY

38

BIhar

27

GOa

25

aNDaMaN & NICOBarIsLaNDs

1

assaM

4

raJasthaN

3

HIMACHALPRADESH

1

MIzOraM

1

ChaNDIGarh

42PUNjAB

1030

DELhI

83140harYaNa

48151 UTTARAKHAND

33

NUMBER OF CANDIDATES TRAINED AND ABSORBED UNDER BITP PROgRAMME IN COMPANIES IN INDIA DURINg 2007-2013

CANDIDATES TRAINED CANDIDATES ABSORBED

Fig.16

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The EnablersThe Enablers ANNEXURE II

geographical Distribution of Companies/Institutes involved in imparting Training and Offering Jobs under BITP Program of DBT

NAME OF INDUSTRY/INSTITUTE TRAINED ABSORBED

ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLAND

PORTBLAIR

CARI 0 1

TOTAL 0 1

ANDHRA PRADESH

ANANTPUR DISTRICT

Siflon Drugs 1 0

GUNTUR DISTRICT

Tulasi Seeds Pvt. Ltd. 2 1

Vigna University 0 1

Zed Labs Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

Hyderabad

A.G. Biotech Laboratories 9 4

Advanta India Limited 4 0

Agri Biotech Foundation 7 3

Amar Immunodiagnostics 1 1

Andhra Bank 0 1

Aravinda Biosolutions Pvt. Ltd. 5 0

Asian Institute of Gastroenterology 32 10

Atash Seeds Pvt. Ltd 1 0

Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. 6 0

Barwale Foundation 34 2

Barwale Knowledge and Study Centre 2 0

Bharat Biotech International Ltd. 8 4

Bioaxis DNA Research Centre 4 1

Bioclues.org 3 0

Biological E. Limited 55 22

BioMed Informatics 21 0

Bioseed Research India (P) Ltd. 1 0

Bioserve Biotechnologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. 15 1

Bioviz Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 2 1

Biognosys Technologies 0 1

Brilliant Biopharma 0 1

Centromere Biosolutions 3 1

Clintox Bioservices Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

Clonz Biotech Private Ltd 5 2

Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD )

0 2

Center for Plant Molecular Biology 0 1

Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology 0 7

CESP Control India Ltd 0 1

Chaitnaya Bharti Junior College 0 1

Directorate of Rice Research 0 1

Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. 6 16

Dupont 0 1

Dr. Surapaneni Genomic Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 14 0

Excel Matrix Biological Devices Pvt. Ltd. 8 5

Federal Bank 0 1

G7 Alexandria Innovation Centre 0 1

Genomix Molecular Diagnostics (P) Ltd. 6 2

GVK Biosciences Private Limited 11 2

Global Hospitals 0 1

Govt. Degree College For Women 0 1

Healthcare Global Enterprises Ltd. (Triesta Biosciences)

7 0

Hyderabad University 0 1

Hyderabad St. Merry School 0 1

IKP Knowledge Park 3 1

Incozen Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

Indian Immunologicals Ltd. 29 3

J.K. Agrigenetics Ltd. 29 5

Junna Lifesciences 2 1

K.N.Biosciences 2 0

Meghna Degree College 0 1

Nagarjuna Fertilizers 4 2

Nandan Biomatrix Limited 3 0

Natco Pharma 1 0

National Institute of Nutrition 0 1

NTHRyS Biotech Labs 6 0

Nuziveedu Seeds Pvt. Ltd. 1 1

ocimum Biosolutions 4 3

Pharmakodyne Biosciences 3 0

Parexel International 0 1

Prathista Industries Ltd. 10 5

ocimum Biosolutions 4 3

Ras Lifesciences 2 0

Rashmi Pharma Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

Ravindranath GE Medical Associates Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

RCC Laboratories India Pvt. Ltd. 3 0

Royal Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd. 3 0

41Biotech Career Ready Reckoner 2014 41Biotech Career Ready Reckoner 2014

The EnablersANNEXURE II

S & S Agro Biotech Pvt Ltd 6 0

S4 Bio Pvt. ltd. 16 5

S.P.A.R. Thar Hospital 0 1

Sai Lara Biotechnologies 13 6

Sandor Proteomics Pvt. Ltd. 14 0

Sanzyme Ltd. 2 0

Som Phytopharma India Ltd. 7 0

SPC Biotech Private Limited 13 3

Sri Biotech Laboratories India Pvt.Ltd. 12 2

Sudershan Biotech Ltd. 3 2

Syntho Chirals 2 2

Tapadia Diagnostic Centre 5 3

Tergene Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

Thomson Reuters 0 1

Tierra Seed Pvt. Ltd. 4 3

Transgene Biotek Ltd. 1 0

UB Nizam Breweries Pvt. Ltd. 1 1

United Breweries Ltd. 3 0

Usha Biotech 0 1

VAC Biotech 2 0

Vimta Labs Ltd. 7 4

Virchow Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 25 19

Vivo Biotech Ltd. 5 3

Zenotech Laboratories Ltd. 17 4

MEDHAK DISTRICT

Asia Pacific Breweries Pearl Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

United Breweries Limited 5 0

UB Nizam Breweries Pvt. Ltd. 4 1

NANDYAL

S.P.y Agro Industries Ltd 2 2

Ranga Reddy District

Shantha Biotechnics Ltd. 17 0

SECUNDERABAD

A.G. Biosystems Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

Aptus Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. 6 3

Jupiter Bioscience Ltd. 17 0

Kaveri Seed Company Ltd. 4 3

Microsun Biotech 7 1

Nuziveedu Seeds Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

Royal Life Sciences Pvt Ltd. 3 1

TIRUPATI

Sugen Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. 28 0

Trimulgerry

Premium Phytoceuticals Pvt. Ltd 1 0

VIjAYAWADA

Dr. J.K.R Gautam International School 0 1

Laila Nutraceuticals 4 1

Sneha Biotech 1 0

TOTAL 641 214

ASSAM

GUWAHATI

Gauhati University 0 1

Intramediate Reference Laboratory 0 1

Regional College of Higher Education 0 1

TEZPUR

Assam Valley School 0 1

TOTAL 0 4

BIHAR

PATNA

Intermediate Reference Laboratory 0 1

Maurya Research & Diagnostic Lab 0 1

Renaissance Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 5 0

Sree Baidyanath Ayurveda Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

TOTAL 7 2

CHANDIGARH

CHANDIGARH

Nectar Lifesciences Ltd. 2 2

Nestle India Ltd. 0 1

PGIMER 0 1

TOTAL 2 4

CHATTISGARH

BHILAI

Vishva Vedanta School 0 1

BILASPUR

Jawahar Navodya Vidyalaya 0 1

DURG

Replicon Biotech 0 1

RAIPUR

Aditya Biotech 6 3

Devleela Biotech 7 0

Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya 0 1

TOTAL 13 7

VIjAYAWADA

Dr. J.K.R Gautam International School 0 1

Laila Nutraceuticals 4 1

Sneha Biotech 1 0

TOTAL 641 214

ASSAM

GUWAHATI

Gauhati University 0 1

Intramediate Reference Laboratory 0 1

Regional College of Higher Education 0 1

TEZPUR

Assam Valley School 0 1

TOTAL 0 4

BIHAR

PATNA

Intermediate Reference Laboratory 0 1

Maurya Research & Diagnostic Lab 0 1

Renaissance Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 5 0

Sree Baidyanath Ayurveda Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

TOTAL 7 2

CHANDIGARH

CHANDIGARH

Nectar Lifesciences Ltd. 2 2

Nestle India Ltd. 0 1

PGIMER 0 1

TOTAL 2 4

CHATTISGARH

BHILAI

Vishva Vedanta School 0 1

BILASPUR

Jawahar Navodya Vidyalaya 0 1

DURG

Replicon Biotech 0 1

RAIPUR

Aditya Biotech 6 3

Devleela Biotech 7 0

Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya 0 1

TOTAL 13 7


The Enablers ANNEXURE II

DELHI

Arbro Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. 12 4

A-1 Food Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Agriculture Finance Corporation 0 1

All India Institute of Medical Sciences 0 1

AoS Products Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Atharva Biosciences 0 1

Auroprobe Laboratories 14 0

Banarasi Chandiwala Institute of Professional Studies

0 1

Batra Hospital 0 1

Beckman Coulter India Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

Bi-Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Biogenuix 0 3

Biotech Consortium India Limited 0 5

Britania Industries Ltd. 1 0

City Xray Diagnostic 0 1

Clairvolex Knowledge Processes Pvt. Ltd. 2 2

Crest Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

Delhi Pollution Control Committee 0 1

Dr. G Wellness Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Forensic Science Laboratory 0 1

Genetix Biotech Asia (P) Ltd 0 5

GenPro Biotech 4 1

Genxbio Health Sciences Pvt. Ltd. 2 2

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University 0 1

Indian Agricultural Research Institute 0 2

Indian Council of Agricultural Research 0 3

Indian Council of Medical Research 0 2

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 0 1

Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology

0 1

Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences 0 3

International Panacea Limited 3 2

Invictus oncology 1 0

J. Mitra and Co. Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Jawaharlal Nehru University 0 1

K. Analysis Intellectual Property Research 0 1

Kee Gad Biogen Pvt. Ltd. 9 2

Krypton Biomedicals Pvt. Ltd. 1 1

Labex Corporation 2 1

Lakshmi Kumaran and Sridharan 1 0

Leadinvent Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 8 1

Life Cell Pvt. Ltd 0 2

Life Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd 0 1

M.M. College 0 1

Max Hospital 0 1

Medsource ozone Biomedicals Pvt. Ltd. 1 1

Multidimentional Export and Research organisation

1 0

National Dope Testing Lab 0 1

National Institute of Immunology 0 1

National Institute of Malaria Research 0 1

National Institute of Science Communica-tion and Information Resources

0 1

Novo Informatics Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

oncquest Laboratories Ltd. 53 8

PSL Ltd. Foundation 0 1

Roche Diagnostics India Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

Solena ABSI (I) Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

TBI 3 0

Techno Concept 0 1

TERI 8 1

The Centre For Genomic Application 5 0

Visionnet 0 1

Vyome Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. 1 1

Wrig Nanosystems 1 1

TOTAL 140 83

GOA

GOA

Myko Tech Pvt. Ltd. 3 1

Nestle India Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

Syngenta Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. 1 1

TOTAL 5 2

GUjARAT

AHMEDABAD

Anil Bioplus 3 0

Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd. 1 0

Hester Biosciences Ltd. 1 0

Intas Biopharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. 33 14

Neesa Agritech Foods Ltd. 5 0

Stemcyte 0 1

The Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute 0 1

Xcelris Genomics 5 1

BHAVNAGAR

Vaishnavi Biotech Limited 1 0



SURAT

Aumgene Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. 10 0

Span Diagnostics Limited 14 3

Navsari Agriculture University 0 1

VADODARA

Alembic Limited 1 0

Century Pharmaceuticals Ltd. 4 1

Reckon Pharmachem Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

Sun Agrigenetics Pvt. Ltd. 9 0

VAPI

Jai Research Foundation 6 0

TOTAL 94 22

HARYANA

AMBALA

Advanced Micro Devices Pvt Ltd. 0 1

FARIDABAD

Crams Technologies 3 0

Medsource ozone Biomedicals Pvt. Ltd. 3 0

GURGAON

Alchem International Ltd. 0 1

Ara Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. 51 13

Ashmar Technologies and Research Pvt. Ltd. 11 9

Bioexcel 0 1

Cryobanks 0 2

Daiichi Sankyo India Pharma Pvt. Ltd. 13 0

DIAMT, Division of BIoRAP 0 1

Google Inc. 0 1

I Life Discoveries Pvt. Ltd. 0 2

Kendle India Pvt. Ltd. 3 0

Labindia Instruments Pvt. Ltd. 2 1

Lifecare Innovations Pvt. Ltd. 12 0

Mascon Global Limited 15 1

Premas Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 5 0

Quest Diagnostics India Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. 9 2

Sheel Biotech Limited 0 1

Thar Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 16 7

THSTI (Translational Health Science &Technology Institute)

0 1

KARNAL

National Dairy Research Institute 0 1

PANCHKULA

IBI Biosolutions Pvt. Ltd. 5 1

Medisys Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Venus Remedies Ltd. 2 0

SONIPAT

GSK Consumer Healthcare Ltd. 1 0

TOTAL 151 48

HIMACHAL PRADESH

BADDI

Surya Pharmaceuticals 0 1

TOTAL 0 1

KARNATAKA

BANGALORE

Abexome Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. 22 11

Achira Pvt. Ltd 0 1

Akanai Technologies 0 1

Animal Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

Anthem Biosciences 1 0

Aristogene Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. 13 4

Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd. 8 2

Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited 5 4

Avatar 11 Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd. 1 1

Avesthagen Limited 19 2

Azyme Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. 10 0

Bangalore Analytical Research Center Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Bangalore Biotech Labs. Pvt. Ltd. 252 13

Best Biotek Research labs (P) Ltd. 2 0

Bhat Bio-Tech India (P) Ltd. 26 2

Bigtec Private Limited 1 2

Biocon Limited 77 30

Biocos Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

Biovase 0 1

Biovet Pvt. Ltd. 2 1

British Biologicals 5 2

Cellwork India Ltd 0 1

CEPHA 0 1

Chromus Biotech 0 2

Clinigene International Ltd. 1 0

Connexios Life Sciences Pvt Ltd 0 3

Criya Technologies 2 0

CSIR Forth Paradigm Institute 0 1

Customised Technologies 1 0

EID Parry India Ltd. 12 0

Empower Research 0 1



Enzene Biosciences Private Limited 17 6

Epitome Consulting and Information Technology Pvt. Ltd.

1 0

G7 Synergon Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

Gangagen Biotechnologies Pvt. Ltd. 7 6

Gemelon Institute of Life sciences 0 1

Genotypic Technology Pvt. Ltd. 11 6

Health Line Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

Healthcare Global Enterprises Ltd. (Triesta Biosciences)

8 4

ILoGy Healthcare Solution 0 1

Immunology Research Foundation of India 0 1

In Vitro International Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

Indian Institute of Science 1

Indo-American Hybrid Seeds (India) Pvt. Ltd. 45 3

Indus Seeds 16 0

Informatics (India) Ltd 0 2

Infosys Technology 0 1

Jubilant Biosys Limited 19 7

Karnataka Antibiotics & Pharmaceutical Ltd. 1 0

Kemwell Biopharma Pvt. Ltd. 6 4

Khoday Breweries Ltd. 1 0

Kumar organic Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Lablink Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Leads Clinical Research & Bio Services Pvt. Ltd

13 6

Lonza India Pvt Ltd 2 0

Manipal Acunova Ltd. 4 1

Manthan Systems 0 1

Medreich Ltd. 1 1

Metahelix Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

Metaome Science Informatics Pvt. Ltd. 14 10

Micro Labs Limited 8 1

Microtest Innovation 0 1

Molecular Connections 0 3

Monsanto Research Center 5 1

MSR Biotech 0 1

Multiplex Bio Tech Pvt. Ltd. 16 1

MWG Biotech 1 0

Narayana Hrudalaya 1 0

National Institute of Virology (Victoria Hospital )

0 1

Natural Remedies Private Limited 46 5

Nature Biochem/Net Bio 0 1

Nitya Genome Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

NMAM 0 1

Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

Nunhems India Pvt. Ltd 1 1

Pall Life sciences 0 1

Point Cross Pvt. Ltd. 0 3

Polyclone Bioservices Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

Praras Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Probiosys 4 0

Radiant Research Services Pvt. Ltd. 11 2

Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. 4 1

Richcore Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Rishi Herbal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 16 6

Robust Materials Technology Pvt. Ltd. 7 0

Sami Labs Ltd. 1 0

Sangenomics Research Labs Pvt. Ltd. 8 0

Sasya Gentech 0 1

Scri Biotech Research Laboratory 0 1

Shodhaka Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. 12 5

Sreyr Drugs Safety Solution 0 1

Sri Raghavendra Biotechnologies Pvt. Ltd. 22 2

Sri Research Institute for Tissue Engineering 0 1

Strides Arcolab Ltd. 1 0

Simbiosys Biowares 12 11

Syngene International Ltd. 1 1

Tata Consultancy Services 0 1

University of Agriculture Science 0 1

Vittal Mallya Scientific Research Foundation

9 1

Wipro Technologies 0 1

BIDAR

Bhoomareddi College 0 1

Sreeven Pharma Pvt. Ltd. 9 5

HUBLI

Biogenics 3 1

Navya Biologicals 6 3

Sankeshwar Minerals Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

MALUR

Group Pharmaceuticals Limited 0 1

MANGLORE

St. Aloysius College 0 1

MYSORE

Central Food Technological Research Institute 0 2

Labland Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 30 8

Prosetta Bioconformatics Pvt. Ltd. 3 1



Tata Interactive System 0 1

TOTAL 874 237

KERALA

ALAPPUZHA DISTRICT

Pelican Biotech and Chemicals Labs Pvt. Ltd. 16 9

CALICUT

Indian Spice Research Institute 0 1

COCHIN

Interfield Laboratories 2 0

KBS International 0 1

L.J. International Ltd. 13 6

Scigenome Labs Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

Unibiosys Biotech Research Labs 2 1

Vysali Pharmaceuticals 0 1

KAROOR

M Kumarsamy Engineering College 0 1

KOTTAYAM

Kaimalil Bioservices 4 0

KBS International 5 0

MALAPPURAM

Cashew Research Station 0 1

PALAKKAD

Agastya Biopharm India Ltd. 4 0

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

Infosys 0 1

National Institute of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (RRL)

0 1

THRISSUR

College of Veterinary & Animal Sciences 0 1

TOTAL 48 24

MADHYA PRADESH

BHOPAL

Bhopal Memorial Hospital 0 1

High Security Animal Disease Laboratory 0 1

Kilpest India Pvt. Ltd. 17 8

DEWAS

Tata International Ltd. 1 0

GWALIOR

Bisen Biotech and Biopharma Pvt. Ltd 9 0

Tropilite Foods Pvt. Ltd. 12 3

RATLAM

IPCA Laboratories Ltd. 2 1

TOTAL 41 14

MAHARASHTRA

AURANGABAD

Global Transgenes Ltd. 2 2

Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College 0 1

Mangcore Chemical Fertilizer Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Midas Care Pharmaceuticals 0 1

Mylan Laboratories Ltd 0 1

Wockhardt Limited, Biotech Park 14 4

Wockhardt Research Centre 15 2

jALGAON

Jain Irrigation System Ltd 0 1

Nirmal Seeds Pvt. Ltd 13 0

jALNA

Bejo Sheetal Seeds Pvt. Ltd. 13 3

Krishidhan Research Foundation 8 3

Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co. Ltd. 19 5

Subhash Fertilizers Private Limited 3 0

MUMBAI

Accenture India Pvt Ltd 0 1

Advance Center for Test, Research and Education of Cancer

0 1

Ajanta Pharma Ltd. 1 1

Ashconuinab Lab Industries Ltd 0 1

Emellen 1 0

Fusion Scientific Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Kopran Limited 0 1

Nutrahelix Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 6 0

Ny Vasta Global 0 1

organica Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 3 3

Piramal Diagnostic Services Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

Piramal Lifesciences Ltd. 2 1

Privi organics Ltd 0 1

Rishi Biotech 9 1

Rishi Herbal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 0 4

SRL Ranbaxy Ltd. 5 4

Sudershan Biotech Ltd 0 1

Super Religare Laboratories Ltd. 5 4

Thrombochek 2 0

Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. 0 1

Transasia Biomedical Pvt. Ltd. 0 6

USV Limited 5 0



NAGPUR

Ankur Seeds Pvt. Ltd. 25 4

Central Institute for Cotton Research 0 5

Maharashtra State Seeds Corporation Ltd. 20 0

Shivaji College 0 1

Nanded

K-Ferts Lab 1 0

NASHIK

Aquamentis Health Care Ltd 0 1

Jai Biotech Industries 6 0

Mylan Laboratories Ltd 0 1

Nashik Vintners Pvt. Ltd 2 0

PUNE

Advinus Therapeutics Pvt Ltd. 4 1

Biopharmax 0 1

Buzzle Software Solution 0 1

Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. 23 3

Hi Tech BioSciences India Ltd. 2 0

Indo-Bioactive Labs 1 0

Immuno Science India Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Indian Institute of Sciences & Education Research

0 1

Jay Biotech 7 0

Lupin Biotech 0 2

Mitcon Biopharma Center 4 0

Mitcon Consultancy Services Ltd. 22 2

National Centre For Cell Sciences 0 2

National Chemical Laboratory 0 2

Praj Industries Limited 7 0

Praj Matrix The Innovation Center 4 1

Pranav Agro Industries Limited 1 0

Rasa Lifesciences 1 0

Sai Advantium Pharma Ltd. 0 1

Serum Institute of India Ltd. 25 3

Shantani Proteome Analytics Pvt. Ltd. 2 1

Vasantdada Sugar Institute (VSI) 1 0

RAIGAD

Embio Limited 7 2

SANGLI

Pranav Agro Industries Limited 2 0

THANE

Advanced Enzymes Technologies Ltd. 2 0

Bharat Serums and Vaccines Limited 6 0

WARDHA

Krishi Mitra Biotech Research Center Pvt. Ltd. 2 1

TOTAL 305 90

MIZORAM

AIZAWL

Mizoram University, Biotech Hub 0 1

TOTAL 0 1

ORISSA

BHUBANESWAR

Astha Biotech 3 2

Biocare India 1 0

Imgenex India Pvt. Ltd. 48 5

Institute of Life Sciences 0 1

Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, CSIR Project

0 1

Juan Biotechnology Private Limited 24 2

KIIT University 0 3

L B Prasad Eye Institute 0 1

National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER)

0 1

Protein Lounge India Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Regional Plant Resource Centre 0 3

Tectona Biotech Research Centre 52 11

Utkal University 0 1

CUTTACK

Ravenshaw University 0 1

DHENKANAL

Dhenkanal Autonomous College 0 1

TOTAL 128 32

PUDUCHERRY

PUDUCHERRY

Gokulam Enterprises 8 0

G.G.organics (P) Ltd 0 1

Safetab Life Sciences 0 1

Shasun Biotech Center 0 1

TOTAL 8 3

PUNjAB

BHATINDA

Guru Kashi University 0 1



LUDHIANA

Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Science University

0 1

Punjab Agriculture University 0 1

United Breweries Ltd. 1 1

MOHALI

Chandigarh Group of Colleges 0 1

Hash BioTech Labs Pvt. Ltd. 7 0

orbit Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 4 0

Panacea Biotec Ltd. 17 5

SANGRUR

Pepsi Foods Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

TOTAL 30 10

TAMIL NADU

ANAIKUTTAM

Kalaswari College 0 1

CHENNAI

ABL Biotechnologies Ltd. 2 0

Anna University 0 3

Biosource & Surgicals 1 0

Biozone Research Technologies 4 0

CavinKare Private Limited 5 0

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. 0 2

Geo Marine Biotechnologies (P) Ltd. 7 2

Green Signal Biopharma Pvt.Ltd 0 1

Huclin Research Limited 1 0

Kitco Pvt Ltd 0 1

Laila Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. 7 3

Lifecell International Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

Medical Coding 0 1

Mediclone Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 52 4

Microtherapeutics Research Lab Pvt. Ltd. 3 2

Nestle India Ltd 0 1

operon Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 13 0

orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. 33 2

Perfint Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. 4 1

Poseidon Biotech 5 2

Prathyusha Institute of Technology & Management

0 1

Quest Lifesciences Pvt Ltd 0 1

Shasun Chemicals and Drugs Ltd. 4 0

Shri Meera Labs Pvt. Ltd. 10 4

SPIC Ltd. 2 1

Synkromax Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

Tamilnadu Veterinary and Animal Science University

0 1

Tex Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. 5 1

Thomson Reuters 0 1

TIFAC 0 1

Tnq Books & Generals Pvt Ltd 0 1

Xinnovem 2 0

yuvraj Biobiz 0 1

COIMBATORE

oriental Aquamarine Biotech India Pvt. Ltd. 4 0

Sugarcane Breeding Instt. 0 1

Sunglow Biotech 10 0

T Stanes & Company Ltd. 26 1

HOSUR

Global Pharmaceuticals 1 0

VB Medicare Pvt. Ltd. 2 1

Kanyakumari

Xpression Biotek Pvt. Ltd. 16 0

KARAIKUDI

Alagappa university 0 1

SALEM

Rasi Seeds 1 1

The Gene Tech 2 2

SIVAKASI

PSR Engineering College 0 1

THANjAVUR

Tari Biotech 0 1

TOTAL 224 49

UTTAR PRADESH

AGRA

HH Biotechnologies Pvt Ltd. 0 1

National JALMA Institute 0 1

BULANDSHAHR

Bharat Immunologicals and Biologicals Corporation Limited

18 0

Shyam Lal Degree College 0 1

GHAZIABAD

Adhunik Institute of Education and Research

0 1

Auroprobe Laboratories 370 3

Bio Med Pvt. Ltd. 1 4

CarePro Biosciences 8 0



Dabur Research Foundation 37 12

Sanshadow Consultants Pvt. Ltd. 1 0

Ultra International Pvt. Ltd. 0 2

LUCKNOW

Biotech Park 3 0

Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) 0 2

Central Institute of Medical and Aromatic Plants

0 4

Directorate of Plant Protection and Storage

0 1

H.H. Biotech 10 0

Indian Institute of Toxicology Research 0 2

Lucknow Biotech Park 0 1

National Botanical Research Institute 0 1

Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute 0 1

Saroj Institute of Technology and Management

0 1

NOIDA

Allele Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. 12 3

Amity University 0 1

Clonegen Biotechnology Pvt. Ltd. 12 3

Codon Biotech Pvt. Ltd. 36 2

Geno Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. 7 2

HCL 0 1

Helix Biogenesis 8 2

Hierank Business School 0 1

IDS Infotech 0 2

Marion Biotech 0 1

Tavant Technology 0 1

VARANASI

Surya Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. 5 1

TOTAL 528 66

UTTARAKHAND

DEHRADUN

Sheetal Lifesciences 2 0

S.D.S P.G.I. Institute 0 1

KASHIPUR

Enviroway Bioscience Pvt. Ltd. 0 1

RUDRAPUR

Khandelwal Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. 1 1

TOTAL 3 3

WEST BENGAL

KHARAGPUR

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 0 1

KOLKATTA

Biobharti Lifescience Pvt. Ltd. 4 1

Biogenuix Medsystem Pvt Ltd 0 1

DSR Genome 5 2

Galaxy Concepts Pvt. Ltd. 2 0

GCC Biotech 4 0

Imperial Fragrances 0 1

Indian Institute of Chemical Biology 0 1

Invitro Fertilization Research Institute 0 1

SHRM Biotechnology Pvt.Ltd. 5 0

Simbiosys Biowares India Pvt. Ltd. 15 0

Structural Biology and Bio-informatics Division

0 1

(CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology)

Subhashree Biotech 16 0

Suraksha Diagnostic Private Limited 3 0

TCG Lifesciences Ltd. (Chembiotek) 4 0

TOTAL 58 9

TOTAL BITP TRAINEES DURINg 2007 -2013

*ABSORBED Some companies/institutes which did not train candidates under BITP but offered jobs.

CANDIDATES TRAINED

CANDIDATES ABSORBED

3295

930



ExPENDITURE UNDER hRD BUDgET hEAD (hRD) AND TOTAL ExPENDITURE (TE) BY DBT(rupees in lakhs)

DR A.K. RAwATDirector, DBT

Nurturing Leadership in Bio-technology

To succeed in highly competitive world in rapidly advancing area such as biotechnology, we need

to build intellectual capital and trans-form existing workforce by updating their skills. Manpower will have to be innovative and equipped with up to date knowledge and appropriate training to meet forthcoming challenges. The country is facing acute shortage of world class human resource which is evident from 30-40 percent faculty positions lying vacant in premier universities and research institutions in the country. Multi-pronged strategy comprising of skill up-gradation of existing faculty, en-couraging reversal of brain drain by cre-ating favourable circumstances to bring back scientists of Indian origin working in overseas laboratories to the country as well as networking of scientists in uni-versities and institutions in remote areas with premier research institutions would help in creating quality educators resulting in improvement in quality of education. These NRI scientists return-ing to country will also train Indian doc-toral and post doctoral fellows in cutting edge areas and facilitate strengthening of international collaborations due to their contacts. We also need to develop frame-

work for assessing quality of universities and institutions, effective governance/management systems and policies for adequate autonomy and encouraging innovation in university set up.

Govt. of India set up multi-agency National Biotechnology Board way back in 1982 and later upgraded it to full fledged Department of Biotechnol-ogy to give much desired impetus to biotechnology. One of the important allocation of business for DBT was “To evolve programs of manpower develop-ment in the area of biotechnology where these are gaps in competence”. Accord-ingly, an integrated plan of manpower development including M.Sc/M.Tech/Post-Doctoral, Short Term training courses, Biotechnology associateship, Visiting scientists from Abroad pro-gram, technician training program and training courses for industrial R&D personnel was formulated to cater to the needs of trained manpower for teaching, R&D and industrial activities in the field of biotechnology. Importance given to human resource development programs by DBT can be gauged from the fact that budget provision for HRD has increased more than ten folds from 7th plan to 11th plan (Fig. 1 is shown below).

TE

HRD

* 1986-87 to 1989-90 {DBT created in Feb.1986}

7th Plan* 8th Plan 9th Plan 10th Plan 11th Plan2012-13 2013-142007-122002-071997-20021992-97

2 Annual Plans

146385965 6666

43631

65891

173063

512910

131572 1315646700 7095

23326

8705

4497

3360

7507392085

Fig. 1

DR SUMAN gOvILAdviser, DBT

DR MEENAKShI MUNShIDirector, DBT


DBT The EnablersDBT

In fact, several programs such as Wellcome Trust, CREST, MD/MS thesis grant, BUILDER, Rapid Grant etc. are booked under different budget heads other than HRD, effectively increasing the provision for this important activity namely human resource development by DBT.

Programs such as short term training programs, visiting scientists from abroad programme (VSAP), CREST (earlier overseas associateship program), insti-tuting a number of awards and chairs for recognising contributions of talented scientists such as National Bioscience Award for career development, National Women Bioscientist Award, Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA), Tata Innovation Fellowship, Ramalin-gaswami Re-entry Fellowship, Distin-guished Biotechnologist Award etc. have laid emphasis on recognising and nur-turing mid-career and senior scientists in universities and research institutions in the country. DBT has also initiated programs to encourage women scientists and young scientists to take up research as well as special drives for J&K, North Eastern states targeting networking of institutions with premier institutions in other parts of the country. Brief account of different initiatives is outlined below:

Upgrading SkillsShort Term Training Program for Mid-career Scientists, UG & PG TeachersThe Department is supporting short term training programs for upgrading skills of mid-career scientists from R&D institutions and faculty involved in un-dergraduate and postgraduate teaching in multidisciplinary areas of biotechnol-ogy. These specialized training courses are organized by colleges, universities and premier research institutions for duration of 2-4 weeks for 15-20 partic-ipants. There is tremendous increase in popularity of program as evident from increase in number of proposals received in last 5 years (Fig.2 is shown on the right side).

PROPOSAL RECEIVED COURSES SUPPORTED

NO. OF PROPOSALS RECEIvED AND COURSESSUPPORTED DURINg LAST FIvE YEARSUNDER ShORT TERM TRAININg PROgRAM

2009-100

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

39

29 3023

36

18

43

24

72

34

Fig. 2

Training the TrainersDBT CREST AwardsThe Department is providing op-portunity for conducting advanced research or undergoing specialised training of Indian scientists in best foreign laboratories/Institutions in identified priority areas through the DBT-CREST (Cutting edge research enhancement and scientific training Awards) awards. This program was initiated way back in 1984-85 so that personnel, thus, trained in best foreign laboratories would strengthen insti-tutions and also train other scientists on their return to the country. This program has been extremely helpful in filling up critical gaps in internal com-petence and in meeting the require-ments of highly skilled and trained manpower for expanding activities in the field. Candidates potential for research work as evidenced by past experience, publications, importance of proposed subject and its relevance to DBT programs and plan, facilities available in parent host institution and suitability of proposed overseas laboratory for proposed work are the

major criteria for selection. Initially, associateship scheme consisted of awards of (i) Overseas and (ii) Nation-al associateships. In view of the large number of applications for overseas associateship, two tier selection pro-cess comprising of screening and se-lection was introduced from 2002-03. Over the years, number of applications for short term have increased and long term applications have shown decline. From 2004-05, overseas associateship was extended for advanced training of young scientists in niche areas of biotechnology viz. medical genetics, stem cell research, nano-biotechnol-ogy, transgenic animal models and agricultural biotechnology. Following the downward trend of long term applicants, long term and short term associateships have been dovetailed into one from 2010-11 and fellow-ship enhanced to 3000 US dollars per month. The program is very well received by scientific community which is evident from large number of applications received every year. As an example, 125 applications were received during 2013. 41 fellowships have been awarded to applicants from 16 disciplines.



MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

BIOENERGY

AGRICULTURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

ENVIRONMENTBIOTECHNOLOGY

ANINAL AND AQUACULTUREBIOTECHNOLOGY

BASICBIOTECHNOLOGY

AREA wISE BREAK UP OF FELLOwShIP

(20)-54%

(5)-14%

(5)-14%

(5)-14%

(1)-3%

(1)-3%

Fig.3

Visiting Scientists from Abroad ProgramThis scheme has been introduced from 1987-88 and it envisages gaining and sharing current state of knowledge in frontline areas of biotechnology through visits of eminent experts from overseas laboratories to Indian labora-tories. These visiting scientists can be associated with ongoing research pro-gram or initiate collaborative research or conduct training in their field of expertise. These visits are expected to provide unique opportunities to young Indian scientists to have close interac-tion with leading international experts.

Promoting Innovation and InterdisciplinarityTata Innovation Fellowship“Tata Innovation Fellowship” scheme was initiated by Department in 2007 to promote innovation in science, especial-ly in biotechnology. The emphasis of the scheme is to recognize and reward scientists with outstanding track record in biological sciences/ biotechnology and a commitment to find solution in health care, agriculture, environment, conser-vation of natural resources, livestock, production and manufacturing process-es, etc. The scheme is aimed at reward-ing interdisciplinary work with major emphasis on innovation and transla-tional research with a potential towards commercialization. Eligibility : Indian Nationals residing in India below 55 years of age are eligi-ble. The applicants who possess Ph.D degree in Life Sciences, Agriculture, Veterinary Science or a Master’s degree in Medical Sciences, Engineering or an equivalent degree in Biotechnology/re-lated areas and have a regular position in a University/Institute/Organization can apply. The applicant should have spent at least 5 years in India before applying for the fellowship. The applicant would have to provide evidence of outstanding track record (publications in reputed journals,

patents awarded, national and interna-tional awards, technologies developed, transferred and commercialized, etc.) in biological sciences/ biotechnology. The fellowship of Rs.25,000/- per month in addition to regular salary from the host institute and contingency grant of Rs. 6.00 lakh per annum for expenses on consumables, equipment, international and domestic travel, manpower and other contingent expenditure is provided by DBT. The candidate will continue to work at the place of his/her employment and the Institution would provide nec-essary infrastructure and administrative support for pursuing research under this fellowship. Fellowship is awarded ini-tially for three years which is extendable by two years on basis of performance ap-praisal. There is a provision for 5 fellow-ships every year. So far, 37 fellowships have been awarded by the Department since 2007. The program is very popular

which is evident from the large number of applicants. Most of the fellows opt for research in medical, agriculture, basic biotechnology as depicted in Fig. 3 is shown above.

Analysis of gender wise distribution of fellows awarded brings out that only 4 women scientists have availed Tata Innovation Fellowship as against 33 men. Steps to make the scheme women friendly need to be taken. Fellows preferred to join national institutes as compared to universities or colleges.

Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA)The above award was initiated in 2005 and so far, 93 young scientists have been awarded. The award provides grant to the tune of Rs.50 lakh as grant- in -aid for a period of 3 years to facilitate young researchers to conduct independent research. The non-regular awardees are



provided a fellowship of Rs.40, 000/- per month for the project duration whereas the regular researchers are provided @ Rs.1 lakh per annum as a cash award for the project period.

RGYI- Rapid Grant for Young Investigators (RGYI)Rapid Grant for Young Investigators fosters creative research in various fields of biotechnology to enhance early career development of young investigators be-low 40 years of age. The program aims to provide first grant to establish laboratory and initiate research in frontier areas of biotechnology. The RGYI scheme was initiated in 2005-2006. Over the years, there has been overwhelming response to this scheme as more than 3000 pro-posals have been received and about 600 projects have been recommended based on their merit.

Reversing Brain Drain to Brain gain Ramalingaswami Re-Entry Fellowship One of the approaches to meet short-age of manpower is to tap available resources from overseas, especially people of Indian origin (Indian nation-als) who want to return to the country and work in Indian laboratories.

Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellow-ship was conceived in 2006 with an idea to encourage scientists of Indian origin working outside the country to come back to country and pursue their research interests in life sciences and biotechnology and other related areas. Bringing back these Indian scientists from overseas would benefit DBT’s newly established research institutions and those set up by other agencies/ ministries (IISERs, Central universi-ties, IITs, NIPERs etc.) by adding value to their R&D portfolios with their scientific knowledge and expertise.

The objective of the scheme is to improve India’s human resource capac-ity in life sciences and biotechnology research in terms of development,

translation and diffusion by attract-ing scientists of Indian origin (Indian nationals) settled abroad. Ramalingas-wami Re-entry Fellows can work in any scientific institution/university in the country and are eligible for regular research grant through extramural and other research schemes of various S&T agencies of the Government of India. Eligibility: The applicant should possess a Ph.D., M.D., M. Tech, M.VSc. or equivalent degree with an outstand-ing track record as reflected in pub-lications and other recognitions and with at least three years of post-doc-toral research experience in overseas research laboratories. Candidates (Indian nationals) working overseas are eligible to apply. Those who have returned to India less than one year also are eligible. Researcher’s up to 55 years of age as determined on closing date of application are eligible to apply. Incentives: This is a senior fellowship program, and awardees are considered synonymous to the faculty/scientists at the level of Scientist-D. They are entitled to take up teaching/research assignments and supervising Doctoral/MS students. The scheme provides a consolidated monthly remuneration of Rs.75,000/- p.m. (Rs.85,000/- p.m w.e.f. 1st April, 2014) and House Rent Allowance of Rs.7,500/- p.m. or accommodation by host institute. Fellows are eligible for research/contingency grant of Rs.10 lakh for the 1st year; Rs.7.50 lakh for the 2nd year; Rs.5.00 lakh for subsequent 3

years for purchase of consumables, minor equipment, international and domestic travel, engaging manpower and other contingent expenditure to be incurred for the implementation of research proposal. DBT encourages host institutions to provide medical benefits, transport allowance, leave travel allowance and other benefits as per prevailing norms out of their own resources/ funds. Tenure of fellowship: Duration of fellowship is 5 years and extendable for another term based on perfor-mance appraisal. Those who secure permanent positions will not be con-sidered for 2nd term. Impact: During last 6 years, 696 applications were received and out of these, 197 were offered fellowship. 140 have availed fellowships and 80 have been able to get permanent faculty positions either in host institute or another institute in the country which speaks volumes about good selection process of DBT (Table-1 is shown below, Fig. 4 is shown on the next page). Thus, it is quite apparent that scientists of Indian origin want to relocate to Indian Institutes/National R&D laboratories which are providing excellent research facilities requested for high quality research and we are witnessing a mass exodus of Indian scientists from across the world to India.

Table-1: Snapshot of current status of Ramalingaswami fellows

CURRENT STATUS OF FELLOwShIPyear Applications

Received Eligible Selected Joined Did not

acceptAccepted but did not join

Absorbed as faculty

Expected to join

2007-08 83 62 10 7 1 2 5 -

2008-09 42 41 15 14 - 1 14 -

2009-10 131 121 27 23 1 3 17 -

2010-11 133 123 45 31 10 - 16 4

2011-12 170 160 50 36 10 - 20 4

2012-13 137 126 50 27 - - 8 23

Total 696 633 197 140 22 6 80 29


DBT The EnablersDBT

Strengthening Infrastructure in UniversitiesBUILDER ProgrammeDepartment of Biotechnology during the 11th five year plan launched a scheme i.e. DBT-Boost to University Interdisciplinary Departments of Life Sciences for Education and Research (DBT-BUILDER) for advanced edu-cation and research for up-gradation/re-engineering/re-modelling/ creation of Life Science departments in central and state universities to promote inter-disciplinary research and technology development. From 2007 onwards, 17 universities have been supported. In 2013-14, out of 11 proposals received, 6 proposals have been recommended for support. University of Hyderabad sup-ported under this scheme in first batch has recently completed the project with establishment of UoH-DBT Centre for Research and Education in Biology and Biotechnology (CREBB); Genomic and Proteomics facility for Research which includes Imaging System, Proteomics & Functional Genomics, Microarray,

Radioactivity Measurement and Metab-olomics; upgradation of Post-Graduate teaching laboratories. Total 316 Ph.D.’s, more than 70 Post docs and 80 students under integrated masters with Ph.D., M.Sc. students and Technicians have benefitted. As a result, 166 Research publications have come out of 183 research projects.

RecognitionsDBT has launched a number of awards to recognise outstanding research contributions by Indian scientists and application of research results for benefit of society.

Biotech Product, Process Devel-opment and Commercialisation AwardsThese Awards are given in recognition of outstanding contributions of scientists/ innovators/entrepreneurs/Indian insti-tutions and companies both in public as well as private sector for a new process, product development and commercial-ization of a technology or a product in the areas of biotechnology and biolog-ical sciences. There is a provision for 5

awards every year. Each award carries a cash amount of Rs.2 lakh along with a citation. Rs.5 lakh would be given if the product is commercialized and has much higher utilization in the country.

National Women Bioscientist AwardsThe National Women Bioscientist Awards are given every year under two categories: (i) National Women Biosci-entist Award (Senior Category) (One) –awarded to senior woman biologist for life time contributions for excel-lent research work in the country and application of the results for the benefit of students and society, and (ii) National Women Bioscientist Awards (Young Category) (Two)- given for outstanding contributions of women scientists below 45 years of age in basic and applied research in the areas of biosciences and biotechnology with potential for product and technology development. Contributions made during last 5 years is the main consideration. The Award for the National Women Bioscientist (Senior Category) carries a cash prize of Rs.5 lakh with citation and a gold medal. The Award for National Women Bioscientist (Young Category) carries a cash prize of Rs.1 lakh with citation and a gold medal and research grant of Rs.5 lakh per annum for a period of 5 years.

National Bioscience Awards for Career DevelopmentNational Bioscience Awards for Career Development are awarded in recogni-tion of outstanding contributions of young scientists below 45 years of age in basic and applied research in the area of biosciences and biotechnology with potential for application/product and technology development and to provide grant for research for their career devel-opment. Each Award carries a cash prize of Rs.1 lakh and a citation along with research grant of Rs.9 lakh @ Rs.3 lakh per year for a period of three years for career development. Upto 10 Awards are given every year, subject to the availabil-ity of suitable candidates.

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Special ProgramsThe Department has made concerted efforts to encourage scientists from J&K, North Eastern States to take up research in frontier areas by layingemphasis on capacity building, initiat-ing twinning program in 2010-11 to

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develop core competence and institu-tional capacity through joint research projects with premier institutions in other parts of the country (Fig. 5 is shown below). These collaborations have played crucial role in main streaming of these institutions and upgrading their skills. Similarly, programs for women, SC/ST and rural population are aimed at capacity build-ing, demonstration of proven technol-ogies to the beneficiaries resulting in application of technology for benefit to the society.

Biotechnology Career Ad-vancement and Re-orientation Program for Women Scientists (BioCare)The Department has launched “Bio-technology Career Advancement

and Re-Orientation Program” for the Career Development of employed/ un-employed women scientists for whom it is the first extramural research grant and to build capacity of women scien-tists employed fulltime in Universities and small research laboratories or unemployed women scientists after a career break to help them to under-take independent R&D projects.

Research Grant Opportunity (RGO) Under this scheme, wom-en scientists who are unemployed are provided monthly emoluments ranging from Rs.35,000/- to 45,000/- pm. The employed women scientists, in addition to salary, get an amount of Rs.5,000/- pm as an incentive. This programme is gaining popularity and 74 women scientists (Research Grant Opportunity and Early Career Scien-tists) have been supported for R&D in different areas of Life Science/biology during 2013-14.

Investment in Education, Science and Technology by Govt. of India has seen tremendous increase in last 10 to 15 years. Last decade has also witnessed unprecedented surge in investment by public sector in opening new IITs, IISERs, NIPERs, AIIMSs, NISERs, IIITs etc. as well as number of professional colleges by private sector resulting in wide access to education. However, due to rapid growth, development has not been uniform and holistic because of short supply of quality educators and lack of autonomy in university system. Multi pronged strategy including joint efforts by different Govt. Departments and involvement of all stakeholders towards creating quality content, men-toring of universities in remote areas by major research institutions and premier universities, use of technology for access to students in remote areas, enhancing quality of faculty coupled with adequate autonomy to universi-ties would definitely result in promot-ing innovation and imparting quality science education ■

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The Department of Science & Technology (DST) promotes new areas of science and technology

and plays the role of a nodal department for organising, coordinating and pro-moting science and technology activities in the country. The department has been active in strengthening both the human and institutional capacity for research.

A number of unique pioneering ini-tiatives by the DST include the INSPIRE program, International Olympiads, Fast track scheme for young scientists, JC BOSE National fellowships, Ramanujan fellowships, Swarna Jayanti fellowship scheme, USERS (Utilization of Scientif-ic Expertise of Retired Scientists) and BOYSCAST (Better Opportunities for Young Scientists in Chosen Areas of Science and Technology), which were implemented to increase the stock of the scientific community necessary for meeting future challenges and also stop-ping exodus of scientists from Indian scientific institutions.

The "Innovation of Science Pursuit for Inspire Research (INSPIRE)”, the flagship program of Government of India, aims towards attraction of talent to science and technology. It has sup-ported more than 7.6 lakh awards for the age group of 10-15, 1.5 lakh intern-ships for age group of 16-17, 28,000 scholarships for undergraduate studies in sciences for youth in the age group of 17-22, about 2900 research fellowships for doctoral research and 136 faculty awards for post-doctoral researchers under the age of 32.

The INSPIRE scheme consists of three components.They are:

a. Scheme for Early Attraction of Talents for Science (SEATS), b. Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) and c. Assured Opportunity for Research Careers (AORC).

This program was launched in December 2008 at a total cost of

Rs 1,979.25 crore. A striking feature of the programme is that it does not be-lieve in conducting competitive exams for identification of talent at any level. It believes in and relies on the efficacy of the existing educational structure for identification of talent.

Scheme for Early Attraction of Talent (SEATS) INSPIRE AwardIn order to seed and experience the joy of innovation, every year two lakh school children in the age-group of 10 to 15 years i.e., 6th to 10th standards are being identified for the INSPIRE Award of Rs 5000/ per young learner. Till December 2012, more than 6.85 lakh awards have been sanctioned and the total amount disbursed as awards is Rs 342.54 crore.

INSPIRE InternshipThe objective of INSPIRE internship is to motivate talented youth to take-up research as a personal undertaking by rubbing shoulders with global icons of science including Nobel Prize Winners. This component of the program aims at working as a life-long catalysing expe-rience for the 11th graders in science stream. These camps give about 50,000 students an opportunity for 5 days to interact with global/ national science leaders from India and abroad and discuss many exciting topics of science, engineering, medicine etc. These camps are held at more than 100 locations in the country.

Scholarship for higher Education (ShE)Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) aims at attracting talented youth into undertaking higher education in science intensive programs, by providing schol-

arships and mentoring through 'summer attachment' to performing researchers. The scheme offers 10,000 scholarships every year @ Rs 0.80 lakh per year to talented youth in the age group 17-22 years, for undertaking bachelor and mas-ters level education in natural and basic sciences. The main feature of the scheme is mentorship support planned for every scholar through INSPIRE scholarship.

Assured Opportunity for Research CareersAssured Opportunity for Research Careers (AORC) aims at attracting, attaching, retaining and nourishing talented young scientific students to strengthen the R&D foundation by offering doctoral INSPIRE fellowship in the age group 22-27 years, in both basic and applied sciences. It also aims at assuring opportunities for post-doctoral researchers through a scheme (similar to the “New Blood Program” of the Roy-al Society of UK) through contractual and tenure track positions for five years in both basic and applied sciences areas through an INSPIRE Faculty Scheme.

INSPIRE FellowshipNSPIRE fellowship aims at enhancing

research fellowships for doctoral studies and opening up partnerships with pri-vate sector for topping the Government's efforts in nurturing talents for scientific research. This scheme is applicable to basic and applied sciences as well as medicine, agriculture etc. with provision of multiple entries.

INSPIRE Faculty SchemeINSPIRE Faculty Scheme opens up an 'Assured Opportunity for Research Career (AORC)' for young researchers in the age group of 27-32 years. It augments high quality scientific manpower in scientific and educational institutions. It provides attractive opportunities to

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young achievers for developing inde-pendent scientific profiles and intends helping them emerge as science leaders in the long term.

Kishore vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KvPY)The "Kishore Vaigyanik ProtsahanYo-jana" (KVPY), a National Program of Fellowships in Basic Sciences was started in 1999 by DST to encourage students of basic sciences towards research careers in science. This program is organized and managed by the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

This program assists the students to realise their potential and helps in grooming the best scientific talent for R&D. Generous fellowship and con-tingency grant are provided up to the pre-PhD level to the selected KVPY Fellows. In addition, summer camps for the KVPY Fellows are organized in prestigious research and educational institutions in the country.

The call for KVPY fellowship appears in all the national dailies coinciding with the Technology Day (May 11) and the Second Sunday of July every year. Stu-dents studying in XI standard to 1st year in any undergraduate program in basic sciences are eligible to apply. There is a two tier screening mechanism consisting of an aptitude test followed by an inter-view for the selected students.

Summer ProgramThe summer programs are import-ant parts of the nurture program for the KVPY Fellows. They are generally organized during the summer vacation, where KVPY Fellows spend one or two weeks in scientific institutions listening to lectures by experts in different fields of basic sciences and other related subjects, see things in a research environment, science in action, watch scientists at work, interact with scientists, visit near-by scientific research laboratories and

institutions, exchange views and interact with other research students.

The Summer Program for the KVPY Fellows is arranged at the Indian Insti-tute for Science Education and Research (IISER) - Kolkata, Pune, Mohali, Bhopal, and Trivandrum for a week.

Asian Science CampThe Asian Science Camps (ASC) aim at enlightening talented youths through discussion and dialogue with top schol-ars in the world and promoting interna-tional friendship and cooperation among the best young students of the next generation in Asia, Australia and Ocea-nia. Every year DST extends support to 25-30 Indian students to participate in the ASC.

The Asian Science Camp invites No-bel Laureates and world class scientists as speakers and devises an interesting pro-gram for the participants. The program includes plenary sessions, round table discussions, student master dialogues, a creative poster competition, social events and excursion. The seventh Asian science camp was held in August 2013 at Tsukuba, Japan involving over 200 students from all over Asian countries.

vijyoshi CampVigyan Jyoti Shibir”, better known as the ‘Vijyoshi’ camp is an initiative of the DST to provide a platform where students could interact with some of the world’s distinguished scientists. This program is the Indian version of the “Lindau Meet” where Noble Laureates interact with students from across the globe. At the Vijyoshi camp selected undergraduate students of science mingle with the world science leaders in a relaxed and in-formal atmosphere every year. Animated discussions on frontiers of science take place, which could help the students to take up science as a career. The program also provides opportunity for personal contact between the students and the leaders of science.

Strengthening Institutional Capacity for ResearchIn 2000, DST announced a major new initiative titled "Fund for Improvement of S&T infrastructure in universities and higher educational institutions (FIST)" as a new millennium initiative towards imparting quality higher education and conducting research in emerging fields of science and engineering. The pro-gram covers life sciences stream and has strengthened quality research and teach-ing in various areas at the departments of universities/ colleges including the Medical, Agriculture, Animal Husband-ry sectors. The wide reach of the scheme can be gauged by the fact that since inception it has supported over 1800 departments across sectors with a total budget of almost Rs 1500 crore.

Another scheme for capacity building and research promotion is the PURSE (Promotion of University Research and Scientific Excellence) scheme under the DST. The Program provides R&D incentive grant to universities based on scientific publications in Science Citation Indexed Journals through SCOPUS Database. A total of 44 universities have been supported under PURSE based on their R&D performance over past 10 year periods.

Consolidation of University Research for Innovation and Excellence (CURIE) is a special initiative to improve the R & D infrastructure of ‘Women Universities’ and all the six women universities (Avi-nashilingam Women University, Coim-batore; Banasthali University, Banasthali; SNDT Women University, Mumbai; Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, Tirupati; Karnataka State Women’s University, Bijapur; and Mother Teresa Women’s University, Kodaikanal) are being supported by the Department at present which ensures to address the issue of gender parity in the long run ■


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UgC Strengthens higher Education

The University Grants Commis-sion (UGC) was established in 1956 as a statutory body of the

Government of India for the coor-dination, determination and main-tenance of standards of university education in the country. The Com-mission plays a major role not only in regulating the education standards but also in strengthening the human resource base and capacity building in institutions of higher education.

For establishing standards in education, in view of proliferation of colleges across the country, the UGC set up the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in 1994. During 2011-2012, 548 higher education institutions (535 colleges and 13 Universities) have been as-sessed and accredited, bringing the total to 5080 institutions of higher ed-ucation accredited by NAAC. Students are strongly advised to see the NAAC rating of the colleges before shortlist-ing them for seeking admissions.

In order to attract and encourage

students for higher studies, the UGC has launched a slew of fellowship and scholarship schemes. A brief intro-duction of the major schemes relevant to science students is given below

Junior Research Fellowship in Sciences, Humanities and So-cial Sciences: The Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) scheme of the UGC was initiated in the year 1957-58 and is open to candidates who qualify in the National Education Testing (NET) of the UGC and UGC-Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) joint test. However, these tests are qualifying tests only and do not bestow a fellowship upon the candi-date. The duration of the Scheme is for five years. The objective of the JRF scheme is to provide opportunities to NET-qualified candidates to under-take advanced studies and research leading to M Phil/PhD degrees in science humanities and social scienc-es. The number of fellowships is 3200 per test.

Research Fellowships in Sci-ences for Meritorious Students: The Research Fellowship in Sciences for meritorious students (RFSMS) scheme of the UGC was started in the year 2007-08 and is open to candi-dates who have registered for PhD in science in Universities with Potential for Excellence /Centres with Potential for Excellence/Centres of Advance Studies and Department of Special Assistance identified by UGC.

The objective of the Fellowship scheme is to provide opportunities to meritorious candidates to undertake advanced studies and research leading to PhD degrees in sciences. The dura-tion of the scheme is for three years.

Dr DS Kothari Fellowships in Science, Engineering and Tech-nology: This important post-doctor-al fellowship initiative was launched in the year 2008-09 named after the illustrious scientist Dr. DS Kothari. The scheme is aimed at redeeming the expected shortfall in trained faculty required for higher education insti-tutions of the country.It is a promo-tional scheme with an aim to inculcate post-doctoral research culture.

These fellowships have an interna-tional flavour and are open to stu-dents from other parts of the world, particularly to those from developing and neighbouring countries. There could be up to 500 such awards every year, making it to about 1000 at its peak. The duration of the scheme is for two years.

Scholarships to students of Central Universities: To attract tal-ent in research and arrest the trend of decreasing enrolment in basic scienc-es and social sciences, the UGC had decided to institute fellowships for doing M Phil /PhD in Central Uni-versities.The scheme was started in February, 2007 and is open to all those

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Post Graduate Merit Scholarship Scheme for University Rank Holders at Under Graduate level: The UGC has introduced a Post Graduate Merit Scholarship Scheme in the year 2005-06 for university rank holders both in general and honours courses at undergraduate level. The scholarship may be tenable for a pe-riod for two years to enable the rank holders of each university at under-graduate level to pursue their Master’s degree. The purpose of this scheme is to attract talent for pursuing post graduate studies besides strengthen-ing the basic subjects, general as well as honours, at undergraduate level. The awardees, under this scheme, can pursue their postgraduate programme in any area of specialization in any institution of higher learning in the country. The duration of the scheme is for two years

PG Scholarships to GATE Qualified Students: The objective of the scheme is to help the graduate students to pursue post graduate stud-ies in higher educational institutions. The duration of the scheme is for two years.

Support for Insti-tutional Capacity Building In addition to the various fellowships schemes, the UGC is also playing a big role in institutional capacity building. Some of its initiatives include:

To achieve excellence in teaching and research and for holistic develop-ment, the UGC has been assisting (by way of grants) the Universities which

are identified and granted the status of University with Potential for Excel-lence (UPE).

On similar lines the UGC has in-troduced the College with Potential for Excellence (CPE) scheme. The CPE Scheme was introduced during the X Plan. Under this scheme, the colleges are financially supported to improve their academic infrastruc-ture, adopt innovations in teaching, learning and evaluation and to intro-duce a flexible approach in the selec-tion of courses at the degree level. A CPE college acts as a role model for other colleges in their area of opera-tion. The objective of the scheme is to help selected colleges to achieve excellence mainly in teaching activity and initiate a research culture in such colleges.

As on date, 284 colleges are enjoying the CPE status. During 2011-2012, an amount of Rs 38.97 crore had been released to the colleges under the scheme. Another scheme is the Centres with Potential for Excel-lence in a Particular Area (CPEPA). The main objective of this scheme is to encourage and facilitate the chosen departments at the selected University to work together. During 2011-2012, 12 centres were approved under this scheme.

Establishment of New Centres/InstitutesDuring 2001, the Commission introduced a new scheme, “Estab-lishment of new Centres/Institutes of Excellence” in studies and research on various inter–disciplinary areas in sciences and humanities within the university system. During 2001–2002 and 2009-10, the Commission had approved the proposals of six cen-tres in the universities for financial support for establishment of Cen-tres/Institutes within the university

system. Three among them have a strong mandate for life sciences. They are: Punjab University, Chandigarh - Establishment of Centre for human genome studies and research; San-jay Gandhi PG Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow - Establishment of a Centre of biomedical magnetic res-onance; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Creation of a Centre of applied human genetics by upgrading the Unit of Genetics in the School of Life Sciences

During 2011-2012, an amount of Rs 9.85 crore had been released to the centres under the scheme.

Special Assistance Program (SAP)The SAP scheme, one of the oldest schemes of UGC, was initiated in 1963 keeping in view the recommen-dations of the Education Commission to facilitate the selected number of university departments having some potential in research and teaching. The program is intended to encour-age the pursuit of excellence and team work in advanced teaching and research to accelerate the realization of international standards in specific fields. The first such program was initially started as the “Centre of Advance Study (CAS)” in 1963. Some of these Centres also received rec-ognition and financial support from UNDP/UNESCO. The “Department of Special Assistance (DSA)” and De-partmental Research Support (DRS)” program were started in the Depart-ments during 1972 and 1977 respec-tively to create feeder departments for CAS. During 2011-12 133 new departments had been inducted under the program and a total grant of Rs 61.45 crore (Rs 43.59 crore for Science departments) has been released to the newly inducted departments and to the existing departments as well ■


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Biotech Finishing School at Lucknow Biotech Parkwww.biotechpark.org.inThe Lucknow Biotech Park has started a ‘Biotech Finishing School’ which is special and unique as the students will become job ready for industry and research as they will be trained in skills not taught during their degree courses. The Finishing School was inaugurated in June 2012 at the Park and offers certificate course of six months duration where 2 months are devoted to class room lectures and 4 months to hands on training.

Speaking about the Finishing School Dr PK Seth, CEO, Lucknow Biotech Park elaborated, “Biotech Park, Lucknow is running a Bio-technology Finishing School – a six

months certificate course - since June 2012, to train the B.Sc., B.Tech and M.Sc., M.Tech pass outs keen to work in biotech industry. The Finishing School equips them with necessary skills so that they are prepared to serve the industry”.

The objective is to provide stu-dents hands on training at various industrial units / facilities of Biotech Park e.g. biofertilizer/ bio-pesticides, plant tissue culture, diagnostics and drug delivery systems, distillation & solvent extraction plant for high value products based on phytomolecules and bio-active fractions. Another ob-jective is to educate the students with the concepts of good laboratory prac-tices, good manufacturing practices, IPR, bioethics, communication skills and regulatory requirements regard-ing toxicity testing, setting up of new units through lectures and practicals.

Three batches have completed suc-cessfully and fourth batch is running. Most of the pass outs have been able to get the placement. The next batch will start from July 1, 2014. Further details are available on the website www.biotechpark.org.in

In addition, the Biotech Park is providing various types of training to students who are completing M.Sc., B.Tech or B.Pharma. It regularly holds short and long term training programs in bioinformatics, biotech-nology and related disciplines.

Karnataka Biotech-nology Finishing Schoolwww.btfskarnataka.orgThe Karnataka Biotechnology Finishing School is a unique initiative

Bridging Programs

The industry and government has proactively designed a few training/bridging programs with a view to address the gap in skills of students, to empower and enable them to align with the industry standards. Some of these programs are being outlined below.


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sessions and hands-on training. The current focus of the Academy is to successfully train the first batch of students to find good placements within the biopharma industry. We plan to start the second batch in June 2014 and aim to develop at least 100 professionals in the first year. We may look at increasing the student intake per batch based on the demand from students and our experience with the placements of the first batch of students.

Q. For the benefit of the students,can you elaborate about the screening methodology used to shortlist the students?

A. After the student submits the online application and required documents such as resume, mark sheets, statement of purpose and letter of reference, a list of eligible candidates is prepared. All eligible candidates are interviewed twice, first for background verification and then for technical evaluation. The final admissions list is prepared after taking into account candidates’ scores in the interviews.

Q. How can students increase their employability in the biotech industry?

A. The knowledge of basic science provided by the educational institute is essential for understanding advanced concepts that are used in an industry setting. While selecting a professional course, students should ensure that the curriculum matches the require-ments of the industry. Courses that include but are not limited to industry specific training programs, additional certification programs (GMP, GCP etc.) and intensive internships will provide students with the confidence to face a job interview and hopefully go on to building a successful career in the biotech industry.

More details about this program are given in the column “High Quality Talent to Fuel Biotech Growth” by Dr Kiran Mazumdar Shaw.

with enhanced placement opportuni-tiesin the biotech sector. Launched by Government of Karnataka, in associ-ation with DBT, Government of India, the course offers different specializa-tions in reputed institutions across the state. For this purpose, twelve Biotechnology Finishing Schools (BTFS) host institutions have been established in Karnataka with appro-priate course content and duration to equip graduates and post-graduates with necessary employable skills and to make them industry ready.

The Bangalore based host institu-tions are Dayanand Sagar Institution; Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College; Padmashri Institute of Management & Science; PES Institute Of Tech-nology, Probiosys Lifesciences; and The Oxford College of Science. The other host institutions are Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur; JSS College of Arts, Commerce & Science, Mysore; St. Aloysius College, Manga-lore; Manipal Life Sciences, Manipal; MM Arts & Science College, Sirsi; and Vishweshwaraih College of Applied Sciences, Gulbarga.

Students across the country can apply for admission into post-grad-uate diploma in specialized areas of biotechnology in these 12 host institu-tions. The entry is through the Kar-nataka Biotechnology Aptitude Test (KBAT) which is an online entrance test followed by an interview.

Biotech Training Modules by Codon Biotechwww.codonbiotech.comIncorporated in 2007, Codon Biotech is a research and training centre located in Noida. It provides hand on practical training to students to meet the rapidly evolving opportu-nities and challenges in the field of biotechnology.

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Advanced Learning Program in Applied Bio-Sciences by Biocon Academy

The Biocon Academy for Advanced Learning in Applied Bio-Sciences has commenced the ‘Biocon KGI Certificate Program in Biosciences’, in collaboration with Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, California in January 2014. The 16-week, full-time Biocon KGI certificate program is being delivered by faculty from KGI and Biocon Academy. In a brief inter-view SS Easwaran, Academic Director, Biocon KGI Program elaborates about the unique bridging course offered by Biocon Academy

Q. The enthusiastic response of students is a marker of the need for such programs. Does the Biocon Academy plan to start more such courses in the future or increase the intake in the Biocon-KGI program?

A. The large number of applications we received for the Biocon-KGI pro-gram from fresh graduates and those in their final semesters at college was extremely encouraging. Biocon Academy is committed to bridging the current gap that exists between academic knowledge and industry skills. The course has been designed to give students a deep insight into the workings of the biopharmaceu-tical industry through classroom

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◀ microbiological techniques with the relevant explanations. Some of the commonly conducted modules bythe institute are Proteomics, Im-munotechnology, DNA Forensics, Molecular Biology and Genomics, Advanced Recombinant DNA Tech-nology, Microbiology Technology, Plant Tissue Culture, Clinical Pathology, and Customised Modules.

The institute also carries out on-site training programs. These on-site training programs are designed for post-graduate and under graduate students. The on-site training programs and their duration are worked out on tandem basis with consultation with the students and the faculties of their respective insti-tutions.

The company has recently also started an endeavour to popularize biotechnology at school level by or-ganizing small workshops/introduc-tory experiments to ignite curiosity towards biotechnology.

global Institute of Intellectual Property offers IPR ProgramsGlobal Institute of Intellectual Prop-erty (GIIP) offers diploma, certificate, executive and corporate programs to hone skills of technical professional in the field of Intellectual Property Rights with focuses on patents and patent process of US, European and Indian jurisdictions. GIIP’s program focus on new and rapidly changing technologies, especially in ICT, chem-ical, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, nanotechnology, electronics, engi-neering, bio-informatics etc. Some of the programs offered by GIIP are as following –

• Post Graduate Diploma (full-time) in Intellectual Property Rights and Patent Management for technical graduates & post graduates

• Executive Post Graduate (full-time) program in Patent Protection, En-forcement and Management

• Preparatory course for the Indian Patent Agent examination

• GIIP’s Off-Campus Learning Centre offers IP Nucleus capsule series (26 online courses) for working (technical and/or legal) professionals

Apart from the GIIP course pro-grams, a number of courses in IP have been started by different universities and IP firms. Most of the courses of-fered by these Universities and firms are either distance learning programs or focus on Indian jurisdiction. The World Intellectual Property Organiza-tion (WIPO) also offers a number of online courses, which one can take for knowledge enhancement. Some of the Universities/Institutes running cours-es in IP are IGNOU, NLSU Bangalore, NLU Jodhpur, NALSAR Bangalore, NLIP University Delhi, Indian Law Institute, etc.

Biopharma produc-tion and Bioprocess engineering training modules at BiOZEENwww.biozeen.com

Operational since 2006, Bangalore based BiOZEEN has been offering practical hands on training in bio-technology to students, faculty and industry professionals. Candidates are educated in the bio-pilot laboratory with hands on practical experience that imparts experience through im-plication than just theory. The train-ing program assures the participants strong unit operations understanding, to enhance the overall knowledge of the processes in the plant and ulti-mately leading to manufacture a safe and effective drug. With a strong industrial connectivity the company has been able to place its candidates

to various biopharmaceutical units across India.

The training modules include hands on training in microbial fer-mentation, animal cell culture, down-stream processing, cleaning, steriliza-tion and filtration along with training programs on bioprocess engineering.

The training programs range from 1 week to 1 month course in each of the modules. The course curriculum has a combination of practical and theory covering operational skills and troubleshooting knowledge which would enhance the job prospects in the industry.

Shodhaka Life Sciences offers courses in Bioinformatics www.shodhaka.com

Shodhaka Lifesciences Pvt Ltd offers data analysis (NGS, SNPs, miRNA etc) services for scientists and offers tailor-made short courses/workshops. Till date the company has conducted several training programs for scien-tists, teachers and students across India. The modular workshop on the use of databases and software for genomics, proteomics and transcrip-tomics has been particularly popular (repeated several times following requests). Its research, conducted to strengthen its service-capacities, focuses on: a) biomarker discovery using novel computational approach-es; b) a systematic compilation and comparison of databases and software for biologists (see startbioinfo.com).

Besides the above mentioned training programs, there are compa-nies like Sangenomics Research Labs in Bangalore, IBI Biosolutions in Panchkula, Biogene Quest in Hyderabad which conduct specialized biotechnology training courses ■


The EnablersBRIDGING COURSES

India can take pride in a large network of sophisticated R&D establishments across the nation under the aegis of the CSIR, ICAR, ICMR, DST, DBT among other agencies. Well-developed laboratories, sophis-ticated equipment, and a focused research mandate are the hallmark of these research institutions. A brief profile of the ‘Centres of Excellence’ supported and funded by the DBT is given here to acquaint the students with some of these world class facilities.

The National Centres of Excellence

National Centre for Cell Science www.nccs.res.inThe National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) took birth as National Tissue Culture Facility in 1986 with a mandate of basic research, teaching and training, and as a national repository for cell lines/hybridomas etc. The centre is located in the midst of University of Pune campus, Pune. During its trans-formation, the centre has undergone several changes to facilitate achievement of its goals. The centre has expanded its scientific charter to strengthen basic research in the areas of cancer biology, cell biology, immunology, genomics and proteomics. The vision of NCCS is to accelerate research in modern biology to create new knowledge and technologies for human welfare. This will be achieved through (i) basic research in modern biology (ii) human resources development and (iii) serving as national cell repository.

National Institute of Immunologywww.nii.res.in Established in 1981, the New Delhi based National Institute of Immunol-ogy (NII) is committed to advanced research to understand body’s defence mechanisms. It develops modalities of immune system manipulation that can intervene with disease processes. The

institute’s research thrust areas under immunology and related disciplines cluster in four main themes, namely, infection and immunity, molecular design, gene regulation and reproduc-tion and development, where research in modern biology is being carried out employing multiple overlapping disci-plines of biochemistry, molecular biolo-gy, cell biology and structural biology.

NII’s interests also include the trans-lational research in the area of vaccines and drug development. The research is focused on designing novel immuno-gens, anticancer agents and therapeutic inhibitors against pathogens of public health significance. The institute has plans to embark upon integrated research in human disease biology, where complex questions of susceptibil-ity to spread of diseases in field condi-tions are intended to be addressed using systems approaches.

Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnosticswww.cdfd.org.inThe Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) is an autonomous organization funded by the DBT, Minis-try of Science and Technology. CDFDalso receives funding from other agen-cies on specific collaborative projects.

In addition, DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics services provided by the centre support some of the activ-

ities. The Centre is recognized by the University of Hyderabad for pursu-ing Ph.D. program in Life Sciences. The centre is equipped with world class instrumentation and computing infrastructure to facilitate working in frontier areas of research in Life Scienc-es. There are presently nineteen groups working on diverse research areas and the centre continues to attract leaders in related disciplines. The Institute provides services in bioinformatics, diagnostics, DNA fingerprinting and instrumentation. CDFD is supported with a strong Bioinformatics facility.

Based in Hyderabad, CDFD is currently housed in two buildings one constituting the laboratory situated in Tuljaiguda and another constituting the administration in Gruhakalpa Complex at Nampally.

National Brain Research Centrewww.nbrc.ac.inGurgaon based, National Brain Re-search Centre is the only institute in In-dia dedicated to neuroscience research and education. Scientists and students of NBRC come from diverse academ-ic backgrounds, including biological, computational, mathematical, physical, engineering and medical sciences, and use multidisciplinary approaches to understand the brain.

The vision for NBRC is that it would not only grow into a world-class insti-tute for brain research but also create a


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vibrant, active neuroscience community by catalysing the overall growth of this discipline in the country. This initiative would also help Indian neuroscientists to participate in global research efforts as equal partners. The knowledge base generated from these efforts would help diagnostic tools and therapeutic strategies for treatment of brain-related disorders. A unique role for NBRC is that it will act as a node with linkages to other centres carrying out neuroscience research in the country, acting in effect as the “hub of the wheel” rather than the wheel itself.

National Agri - Food Biotechnology Institutewww.nabi.res.inThe National Agri - Food Biotechnol-ogy Institute (NABI) is located in the Knowledge City at Mohali, Punjab. The institute aims at catalysing the transfor-mation of agri-food sector in India. The vision of the institute is to be a nodal organization for knowledge generation and translational science leading to value added products based on agri- food biotech innovations. It aims to transform agri-food sector into globally rewarding and sustainable biotechnolo-gy-based enterprise through innovative solutions in primary and secondary ag-riculture including high-end food pro-cessing. And develop synergy among knowledge providers and investors in agri-food sector to carry innovations to marketplace.

The institute was established in 2010 with the objective of carrying out research in the areas of agriculture, food and nutritional biotechnology.

Regional Centre for Biotechnologywww.rcb.res.inThe Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB) is a newly established institution

of education, training & research in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi by the Department of Biotech-nology, Government of India under an agreement with UNESCO. RCB is designed to be a centre of excellence in biotechnology with intimate contribu-tions from the countries of the region and academic institutions from the rest of the world. It provides a meeting place where innovation, enterprise, and industrial development will germinate. This Centre would be beneficial to all countries in the region including India in carrying out biotech research and developing knowledge-rich human resource.

The mandate of the Centre is to provide a platform for biotechnology education, training and research at the interface of multiple disciplines.

Institute of Biore-sources and Sustain-able Developmentwww.ibsd.gov.inThe Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, although registered in April 2001, started regular activity with the appointment of its first Director in January, 2003. The mission of the institute is bioresource development and their sustainable use through biotech interventions for the socio-economic growth of the region with the goal of scientific management of bioresources in the Indian region falling under Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot.

The broad objectives of the institute are: To set up the state of art biotechnol-ogy research facilities at Imphal which is at the centre of the Indo-Burmese Biodiversity Hotspot for sustainable de-velopment of bioresources using -tools of modern biology;

To study and document the unique biodiversity of bio-geographic junction of the Indian and oriental landmasses; To develop biotechnological interven-tions for sustainable development and

utilization of bioresources; To under-take capacity building in bioresouces conservation and management; To generate technological packages for employments generation and economic progress of the region; To collaborate with other institutions, organizations, universities nationally and internation-ally in furthering research pursuits in bioresources.

National Institute of Plant genome Researchwww.nipgr.res.inThe establishment of National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) coincides with the 50th anniversary of India’s independence as well as birth an-niversary of Prof. JC Bose. It has placed India among the major contributors to plant genomics.

The Delhi based institute started to function in the year 1998 with the man-date to undertake, promote and co-or-dinate research, train workers and to serve as information resource in iden-tified aspects of plant genome to build a frontline plant genomics institution. NIPGR is poised to contribute towards frontier areas of Plant Biology such as, Computational Biology, Genome Anal-ysis and Molecular Mapping, Molecular Mechanism of Abiotic Stress Responses, Nutritional Genomics, Plant Develop-ment and Architecture, Plant Immunity, Molecular Breeding, Transgenics for crop improvement and other emerging areas based on plant genomics.

Institute of Life Scienceswww.ils.res.inThe Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), an autonomous institute, has been brought under the fold of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India in August 2002. The institute was earlier established on February 11, 1989 and



was under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of Orissa. The mandate of ILS is to undertake ba-sic and translational research in frontier areas of life sciences. The research in-terests of the faculty are in three major areas: (a) Infectious Disease Biology, (b) Gene Function and Regulation and (c) Translation Research and Technol-ogy Development. In addition, new collaborations with industry have been established to tap commercial potential of laboratory science.

ILS vision is to acquire insights into biology of pathogens, pathogenesis of disease progression and evolution of pathogens in the context of their rela-tionship to human genetics.

National Institute of Biomedical genomicswww.nibmg.ac.inThe National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG) is the first insti-tution in India explicitly devoted to research, training, translation, service and capacity-building in biomedical genomics.

Located in Kalyani, West Bengal, the Institute is currently function-

ing from an interim facility of about 120,000 sq. ft. of floor space, construct-ed on the 2nd floor of a local hospital. Laboratories, equipment (including flow-cell sequencers, whole-genome genotyping and gene expression plat-forms, array-CGH platforms, high-end computing platforms, etc.), bio-banking facility, office space and class rooms have been established.

The permanent campus of the Insti-tute is being constructed on a 30-acre plot of land, with academic blocks, stu-dent and faculty housing, guest houses, conference centre and other facilities. The vision of the institute is to enhance knowledge on human health and disease through genomics; to translate the knowledge using appro-priate technologies for promotion of

wellbeing and improvement of genet-ics-based healthcare.

Rajiv gandhi Centre for Biotechnologywww.rgcb.res.inAlthough started as a Kerala state supported institution, the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) be-came an autonomous national institute supported by the DBT, Department of Science and Technology in April 2007.The research programs at RGCB are designed clusters of investigations on the central theme of disease biology. This framework includes basic and applied programs in human disease, animal disease and plant disease. It has a cancer research program, a cardio-vascular biology program, infectious disease biology including emerging and re-emerging viral diseases, neurobiolo-gy, environment and disease, reproduc-tive biology and infertility, genetics of disease and the use of chemical biology in disease research.

The emergence of avian influen-za and prevalence of swine fever in the country has led RGCB to take up research on these animal diseases. Its plant biotechnologists focus on spice genomics to create new approaches for better resistance to disease in the important cash crops.

Translational health Science and Technol-ogy Institutewww.thsti.res.inA distinguished group of health care visionaries set up the Translation-al Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) in 2009 in Gurgaon. THSTI addresses public health issues of national priority through various niche research centres. Among those, six intramural centres (paediatric biology centre, vaccine and infectious disease research centre, Centre for biodesign

and diagnostics, centre for human microbial ecology, policy centre for biomedical research, drug development research) with interdisciplinary focus, two extramural centres (clinical devel-opment services agency and national biodesign alliance) and one partnership center (Population science partnership centre) are functioning currently to meet its objectives of contemporary translational research. THSTI integrates multidisciplinary scientific teams from the fields of medicine, science and technology for harnessing translation-al knowledge. The process is directed towards the production of biomedical innovations for use in various phases of health care.

National Institute of Animal Biotech-nologywww.niab.org.inNational Institute of Biotechnology (NIAB) is currently located within the CR Rao Advanced institute of Mathe-matics, Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS), University of Hyderabad. The Government of Andhra Pradesh has allocated 100 acres of land in 2012 within the campus of University of Hyderabad for the establishment of NIAB. The institute is aimed to harness novel and emerging biotechnologies and take up research in the cutting edge areas for improving animal health and productivity. The Institute’s focus of research will be on Animal Genetics and Genomics, Transgenic Technology, Reproductive Biotechnology, Infec-tious Diseases, Bioinformatics and Nutrition Enrichment. The institute aims at translational research leading to the development of novel vaccines, diagnostics and improved therapeutic molecules for farm animals. The Insti-tute plans to promote bio entrepreneur-ship by providing support environment for commercial tenants involved in the development of farm animal based products.


Infrastructure

Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Re-generative Medicinewww.instem.res.inThe Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) is a research based institute in Bangalore dedicated to the study of stem cell and regenerative biology. inStem empha-sizes collaborative research in stem cell biology and its mandate is to allow this cross-disciplinary, multi-pronged approach to research, straddle the divide between clinical and laboratory research in stem cell biology. In trying to answer intractable and challenging questions that face the field, inStem seeks to rewrite the paradigm of the research institute: without barriers and across disciplines.

Research at inStem, encompasses a wide range of topics in stem cell biology: from questions about the fundamental mechanisms that control differentiation and renewal, to clinical studies on the impact of stem cells on recovery from stroke/injury. The institute is also home to the Wadhwani Centre, a generous philanthropic donation dedicated to the study of stem cell biology of the nervous system as well as cardiomyopathies.

Some other prominent research and educational institutes across the country include:

Indian Institutes of Science Education and ResearchThe Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (SAC-PM) under the Chairmanship of Prof CNR Rao had recommended creation of five new insti-tutions devoted to science education and research to be named “Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research” broadly on the lines of IISc. Bangalore. Five such Institutes have been estab-lished at Kolkata, Pune, Mohali, Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram.

The vision of these institutes encom-passes creation of research centres of the highest calibre in which teaching and education in basic sciences will be totally integrated with state-of-the-art research. These Institutions are devoted to un-der-graduate and post-graduate teaching in sciences in an intellectually vibrant atmosphere of research and make edu-cation and career in basic sciences more attractive by providing opportunities in integrative teaching and learning of sciences. These institutes are unique in creating integrated Masters program in sciences, in order to provide entry into research at a younger age. In addition, the Institutes have integrated programs leading to Masters and PhDs to those who hold a Bachelor’s degree in science.

The admission in undergraduate courses in IISERs is through extended merit list of IIT-Joint Entrance Exam-ination, Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) and Direct Admission based on class X & XII performance in science stream.

List of IISERs:IISER Kolkatawww.iiserkol.ac.inEstablished in 2006, IISER Kolkata of-fers the Integrated BS- MS program, MS program, Integrated PhD program, PhD program and post-doctoral program.

IISER Bhopalwww.iiserbhopal.ac.inSet up in 2008, IISER Bhopal currently offers BS-MS (Dual Degree) program and Ph.D. program.

IISER Punewww.iiserkol.ac.inSet up in 2006, the Integrated Masters (MS) program at IISER Pune aims to in-tegrate the conventional bachelors and masters programs into a more holistic science education experience, bringing together conventional disciplines in the biological, chemical, mathematical and physical sciences.

IISER Mohaliwww.iisermohali.ac.inIISER Mohali has been established in 2007 to carry out research in frontier areas of science and provide quality science education at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. It offers Inte-grated Master’s level (M.S.) program, Doctoral program (PhD) and Integrated Doctoral program (Int. PhD).

IISER Thiruvananthapuramwww.iisertvm.ac.inThe institute was established in August 2008 and offers five year integrated MS and PhD programs in Mathemat-ics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and inter-disciplinary areas.

National Institute of Science Education and Researchwww.niser.ac.inThe National Institute of Science Ed-ucation and Research (NISER), Bhu-baneswar, is an autonomous institution under the Department of Atomic Energy set up in 2007. NISER facilitates the synergy between research and higher education in science and is comparable with the best institutions in the coun-try. NISER conducts an integrated 5 year M.Sc. programme in the core and emerging branches of Basic Sciences to students after their 10+2 Higher Second-ary schooling, an integrated MSc and PhD after BSc degree and PhD program after MSc degree.

NISER organises a unique nationwide entrance test National Entrance Screen-ing Test (NEST) to select the students for the 5 year -Integrated MSc program.

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Edu-cation and Researchwww.niper.nic.inNational Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) at



SAS Nagar, Mohali is the first national level institute in pharmaceutical sciences with the objective of becoming a centre of excellence for advanced studies and research in pharmaceutical sciences. The Government of India has declared NIPER as an ‘Institute of National Importance in 1998. It is an autonomous body set up under the aegis of Depart-ment of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India. Further the Indian Government has established six more NIPERs, at the following locations with the help of mentor institutes:-• Ahmedabad (Mentor Institute- B. V. Patel Pharmaceutical Education and Research Development Centre), Ahmed-abad

• Hajipur (Mentor Institute- Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna)• Hyderabad ( (Mentor Institute- In-dian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad)• Kolkata (Mentor Institute- Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata)• Guwahati (Mentor Institute- Govern-ment Medical College, Guwahati)• Rae Bareli (Mentor Institute- Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow).

The NIPER institutes offer a variety of academic programs in pharmacology. These include MS (Pharma) in biotech-nology, medicinal chemistry, medical de-vices, natural products, pharmaceutical analysis, pharmaceuticals, pharmacoin-

fomatics, pharmacology and toxicology, regulatory toxicology and traditional medicine.

M. Pharma in clinical research, pharmaceutical technology, pharmacy practice and MTech (Pharma) in phar-maceutical technology. In addition it offers an MBA (Pharma) in pharmaceu-tical management.

In addition to these profiled National Centres of Excellence and institutes, there is a comprehensive list of institu-tions (universities, research institutes and colleges) being provided in the last section of the booklet. These can provide the roadmap for higher education in the biosciences arena. They include the IISc, IITs, NCBS, TIFR, AIIMS, SGPGI among many others.

Biotech Science ClusterIn order to enable integrated growth of science, engineering, agriculture and medicine in a multidisciplinary environment and provide a fillip to entrepreneurship, the DBT took an initiative during 11th Plan to establish multi institutional regional science clusters. Currently three Biotech Science Clusters have been established which include: NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad; Bangalore Biotech Science Cluster, Bangalore and Mohali Biotech Science Cluster, Mohali.

NCR Biotech Science Cluster, FaridabadThe stakeholders in the NCR Biotech Science Cluster are Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, National Institute of Immunology, National Institute of Plant Genomic Research and National Brain Research Centre. The cluster aims to network the constituent institutions to create a comprehensive ecosystem for acceler-ating discoveries and facilitating trans-lation of these discoveries into real world solutions in the field of health-

care and agriculture. The emphasis is to create core technology resources allowing effective cluster wide access to technologies such as stringent contain-ment facilities for bio hazardous work, engineered animal resources, high end imaging, modalities for collection of large data sets such as proteomics, genomics, and metabolomics, the maintenance of large bio-library and high throughput screening resources. The cluster will eventually develop a clinical research centre as well as a network of off-campus partner institu-tional resources for clinical as well as population studies.

Bangalore Biotech Science Cluster, BangaloreA distinctively different biotech science ecosystem has been evolving in Ban-galore. This includes: National Centre for Biological Sciences, a broad-based institution for fundamental research in biological sciences; Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, an institution focused on cutting edge translational research and Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms, a not-for-profit Section 25 Company. The focus of this cluster range from basic biology; bioengineering; creation

and management of national mouse resource; translational research; entre-preneurship; manage and develop nov-el high end technologies for the biotech sciences; provide access and training on such technologies; and outreach programs via international meetings, courses and workshop.

Mohali Biotech Science Cluster, MohaliThe institutes of Mohali Biotech Sci-ence Cluster are: National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute; Centre for Agri-Food Bioprocessing; Indian Insti-tute of Science Education & Research; Institute for Nano Science & Technolo-gy; and a Biotech Park. This cluster will provide organizational structure and governance aimed at synergizing skills, facilities and resources for development of meta-structures to accelerate human resource development in trans disci-plinary areas in agri-food-health sector, for building strengths in innovations at the interface of different specializations in science, engineering, technology development and management through sharing of resources and skills, related to agriculture, food and health ■



CareersINTRODUCTION


This section will be of particular interest to the students as they are eager to know about their future career prospects after getting the much coveted degree in biosciences.

Students have a wide range of options to choose from. They can opt for a career in academics, research or join the growing biosciences industry. Still others with entre-preneurship skill can venture into opening new enterprises.

This section of the booklet focuses on the varied opportunities available, right from the traditional career choice of teaching and mentoring young minds to doing niche scientific research in conventional and not so conventional areas like sericulture, biore-sources, renewable energy, etc. It also covers in detail the major sub segments of the cur-rent biosciences industry--biopharmaceu-ticals, bioagriculture, bioservices, bioinfor-matics and the allied but equally important sectors like IPR and the biosuppliers.

Soaring in the (Bio) Skies

The BioPharma sector offers opportuni-ties to professionals from various allied fields as it encompasses many faculties like microbiology, biochemistry, molec-ular biology, immunology, chemistry, biotechnology and more.

“The opportunities for a candidate with biotech qualification are diverse and are in the area of R&D for discovery and development of products and process, development of bio-similar/bio-betters, manufacturing, quality control, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, registration, etc,” said Dr JN Verma, Director Lifecare Innovations, a Gurgoan based medical biotechnology company.

According to the annual ABLE-BioSpectrum Survey the Indian BioPhar-ma industry was worth about Rs 14,923 crore in 2012-13, registering a 17.7 percent increase over the previous


Careers BIOPHARMA

The BioPharma sector is very diverse and accounts for over 60 percent market share in the

Indian biotech industry. The segment has undergone intensive restructuring during the last decade and now the focus is on R&D, manufacturing and biotech based drugs. Many pharma companies have identified R&D as one of the key growth engines and the focus on dis-covering new drug entities or new drug delivery systems has created a demand for qualified trained professionals in related fields.

Talking about the market dynamics in the biopharma space, Dr VK Vinayak, Director, Yashraj Biotechnology Limited, a part of Yashraj group operating in the area of molecular diagnostics, stated that the current Indian pharma market is around 20-24 billion US dollars and it has the potential to reach 55-70 billion US dollars by year 2020. However, be-cause of slow growth, it is likely to reach only 35-40 billion US dollars by the year 2020. “The current biotech segment has a market of bio-products around 4-5 billion US dollars only, which is likely to reach

Opportunities

BioPharma Beckons with Diverse Opportunities

around 8-9 billion US dollars,” he added. “The usual rate of growth of both the

sectors is around 12-15 percent. However, during last two years, the overall growth rate is only around 9-10 percent. Delay in clearing permission to conduct clinical trials (that have been outsourced to India) by the regulatory bodies and other regula-tory hurdles are cited as the cause of slow growth of pharma market,” he shared.

DR JN vERMADirector, Lifecare Innovations

PROMINENT BIOPHARMA COMPANIES■ Bharat Biotech■ Bharat Serums and Vaccines■ Biocon■ Biological E■ Eli Lilly■ GlaxoSmithKline■ Haffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical■ Indian Immunologicals■ NovoNordisk India■ Novozymes India■ Reliance Life Sciences■ Serum Institute of India■ Tulip Group

year. According to their estimates, the Biopharma sector is currently growing at a CAGR of 13.6 percent over the past five years. Diagnostics, vaccines, and recombinant therapeutic proteins are the promising sectors of this industry.

Currently, traditional pharmacology is increasingly being considered as the downstream processing of biotech-based pharma. With this change in focus, the requirements of pharma companies at the entry level are also changing. Besides, regular pharma graduates and postgrad-uates, the industry is looking towards MSc and PhD candidates possessing specialized knowledge. Those who have inclination for innovation led entrepre-neurship and are equipped with risk taking ability may explore self-employing business opportunities. “Taking your own research to commer-cialization is the most satisfying possi-bility and would change you from a job seeker to job provider. Young biotech professionals may explore possibility of forming groups for business ventures,” advised Dr JN Verma.’

Key skills required Generally the Industry majors concur that they are looking at people with a good background in biotechnology/bio-chemistry/microbiology or allied areas with some basic technical skills. At the same time they should have good under-standing and reasoning capabilities, in addition to good communication skills and the ability to understand scientific literature.

The skillset would also depend upon on the role that the potential candidate has to the play in the company. For example, for research development activities in a biotech company, hand on expertise in the area of molecular biolo-gy, recombinant technology, cell culture,

microbiology/genomics/lifesciences are also needed. • Research and development at man-ufacturing sites: Developing, standard-ization and validation of analytic procedures and tools for generating physical, chemical and biological data on various batches of manufactured classically known/bio similar/live avirulent or attenuated viruses or other microbes and new/novel bio products as per regulatory requirements. Candidates with MSc/PhD in biotech/biochemistry/ microbi-ology/zoology or allied area are suitable• Hard core R&D: Designing and developing novel leads for new or novel bio products by utilising molecu-lar biology tools, recombinant technol-ogy, bio-informatics and computational tools, etc. Candidates with MSc/PhD in biotech/microbiology/biochemistry/bio-informatics/biocomputational expertise/zoology/lifesciences are suitable.• QC/QA unit: Quality control and quality assurance before release of bio-products by strictly following validated processes as per regulatory re-quirements. Candidates with BSc/MSc in biotech and allied areas are suitable.• Opportunities in other units like internal regulatory division, IPR unit, marketing, human resource departments and clinical trial sites management. Candidates with BSc/MSc in biotechnology/ microbiology/ biochemistry, MBA in biotechnology especially for marketing and human resource positions or MSc in clinical research/MBBS/MD for clinical trial sites management and monitoring of clinical trials.

Many opportunities available in the Biopharma sector along with the qualifications required and the scope of role fulfilment have been are listed by industry experts for the benefit of students.

DR vK vINAYAKDirector, Yashraj Biotechnology Ltd.

Dr. VK Vinayak opined that there are several challenging opportunities for a candidate with biotech degree. Depending upon the qualificationslike BSc (biotech), MSc (biotech), or degrees in allied subjects like bioinformatics, microbiology, biochem-istry, biophysics, genomics, genetics, zoology or life sciences, along with proper expertise/experience, candidates have opportunities in following units in biopharma/ industrial set up:• Manufacturing of classical, improved or new/novel biomolecules or genetically modified/ attenuated/avirulent viruses by utilising classical manufacturing or newer manufac-turing processes in disposable bag bioreactors under cGMP practices that may need P2/P3 containment facili-ties. By and large candidates with BSc/MSc (biotechnology/microbiology) are suitable. At some level candidates with PhD in biotechnology/biochemistry/


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expression of proteins in mammalian cells, immunology, bioinformatics and bio computational tools is needed. “For manufacturing, knowledge of cGMP practices, complete understanding of manufacturing processes and biosafety requirements is necessary. The under-standing of P2/P3 containment require-ment during manufacturing of microbes or certain viruses as vaccines would be an added skillset. Basically, potential candidate must have hands on experi-ence on technologies needed to develop a product,” explained Dr Vinayak.

Further, innovations and inventive innovations are needed both for the biopharma industry and basic under-standing of disease processes. Thus, special attention to identifying new targets for drug and vaccines develop-ments, the hand on expertise on re-combinant technology, mammalian cell expression systems, bioinformatics, bio-computational tools, bio analytic tools to characterise the products would be required. In addition, processes and tools to develop marketable bio product starting from identification of a lead, optimisation of the lead to assessment of lead efficacy in animal models to manufacturing at R&D level to process development clinical trial of a biopharma product. Appropriate understanding of ethical issues, biosafety concerns, good lab practices etc. would be essential.

HR managers of some leading phar-ma companies confirm that during the interview process they mainly see how the prospective candidate comes across or the “attitude” of the student. There are three important points that they keep in mind while selecting candidates: their basic qualification, any additional cours-es they have done, which adds value like bioinformatics or courses in bioinstru-mentation and good project work.

A common advice by pharma majors to aspiring candidates is to hone their skills. “Most fresh graduates are not job ready. Institutions imparting biotech related education should align their cur-ricula with industries requirements and good training/project/research opportu-

nities during the degree program in the speciality of interest within Bio-tech/ Biopharma industry,” pointed out Dr Verma.

To facilitate hands on training in the industry, the Department of Bio-technology, Government of India, offers the ‘Biotech Industry Training Program

(BITP)’ to B Tech and MSc biotech students to make them ready for job `in the biotech/biopharma industry. This program has demonstrated career enhancing possibilities.

It is generally seen that most Biosciences graduates and postgraduates (BSc, MSc, B Tech, MTech) ▶


◀ overwhelmingly aspire to pursue a career in R&D that has the least number of opportunities. Moreover R&D positions need a specialist with strong credentials in R&D. So the students should broaden their horizons and look beyond R&D into other aligned job categories like manufacturing, quality control, or marketing also available in a biopharma setup.

PROF gITA ShARMA, Research Director at Hyderabad based Tapadia Diagnostics has enlisted a few possible areas of opportunities and the expec-tation of role fulfilment.

01. Microbiology QC/QA test-ing and release Any product in pharma/cosmetics and food industry need these test for every product batch release. The rider here is most stu-dents passing out have no capability of handling products in a sterile/aseptic manner. They need to know:What are the tests as defined by differ-ent regulatory authorities permitting their release in the market• How to carry out these tests • What are the recommended limits for each product type • Sampling methods• Pharmacopeia and WHO recommendations, and limits • Make and maintain SOPs, batch records and release reports.• Trouble shoot in case of non- conformance

02. Microbiologist/cell biolo-gist in anti-bacterial discovery research groups For the evaluation of pharmacologically active small molecules for their bactericidal and bacteriostatic effect to come up with putative anti-microbial effect.

The emergence of multiple drug resistance has become a major health-care problem. Many initiatives are continuously being made to discover develop novel therapeutic molecules.

HIV and TB are also major thrust areas for novel molecules and bet-ter/ accurate and efficient diagnosis remains as an unmet need. Here again the student needs to know:• Identify the ligand binding activity of the active ingredient • How to make a formulation • What are the recommended protocol and organisms used for testing • How to grow and maintain these organisms• How to do a chequer board analysis for arriving at optimal concentration • Deriving at minimum inhibitory concentration, etc• What are the recommended organisms to do these tests• How to reach end points and cull unwanted molecules• The statistics governing this decision• Point of care diagnostics that may be used at rural health care centres

03. Cell biologist in Discovery Research group for cancer thera-peutics, and other metabolic diseases.• What cell lines / receptors to use • How to maintain these cell lines. • How to generate cell lines of choice.• Method of identifying its lineage genetic characteristics• Ensuring its status as “free from endogenous virus and other adventi tious organisms”• Identify the ligand and design cell line to study its ligand binding

activity with active ingredient • Studying its transport mechanism • Cell toxicity assay• Cell proliferative assay • Mutagenicity assay.• Cell Fusion Methods• Creating knock out cell lines.

04. To evaluate identify viruses and anti-viral agents: Basic methods of growing viruses, identify-ing them by doing a qualitative and quantitative estimation of these viruses

05. In a group that is involved in process development (both upstream and downstream) of biological enti-ties. Process scale up from test tube to large scale manufacturing.

06. Ability to down scale technology to screen best clone/ cell line

07. Characterisation of cell lines and evaluating its status on endogenous viruses, etc, especially if they are to be used as cells to manufacture biologics.

08. Characterisation of proteins to determine its Biosimilarity/purity /safety.

09. Molecular Diagnostic labs

10. Scientific writing

11. Project evaluation for funding

12. Regulatory Implementation arm

13. Transport /import/ export of bio logical material /chemicals /perish-ables/

14. Screening germplasms.

A final piece of advice for students is that even before they opt for biotech education, like in any other professional education stream, they should be clear about the career goal based on the opportunities available and the self-assessment of abilities. This is important as many a times teachers themselves lack clarity and require training for teaching, research and career counselling. Institu-

tions should also provide support in this direction to the students. “In this era of unstoppable proliferation of private universities and institutions churning out biotech graduates without analysing demand and supply scenario, it is important to proactively assess career path and take opportunity enhancing measures and networking”, said Dr Verma ■

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than last year.Back in India, according to the

annual ABLE-BioSpectrum Survey the size of the Indian BioAgri industry was about Rs 3,210 crore in 2012-13, registering a 5 percent increase over the previous year.

“The agribiotech sector has big scope for expansion, if other GM crops are also cleared for commercial release. If that happens, we expect a minimum market size of Rs 10-15 thousand crore. Apart from GM crops, there is a market for products developed through molecular breeding, or de-velopment of bioagents for better and eco-friendly nutrient delivery and pest control. These areas are still emerging, and their growth will depend on devel-opment of robust technologies along with strong quality control protocols for assured benefits to farmers,” said Prof GK Garg, Retired Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engi-neering, GB Pant University Pantnagar and Ex Director, Krishidhan Research Foundation Pvt Ltd, Jalna.


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The opportunity for students special-izing in agricultural biotechnology is in improving agricultural produc-tivity and making products suited to the Indian agronomy and markets. The most relevant agri industries that can successfully harness the benefits from biotechnology are the Seed industry, Fertilizer industry and Biopesticide industry.

Market ScenarioAlthough India approved Bt Cotton, the first and only genetically modi-fied crop approved in the country so far, for commercial cultivation way back in 2002, but after that no other genetically modified crops have been cleared. Nevertheless the potential of this sector is huge, judging by the fact that the estimated market size of seed sales for Bt Cotton itself is about Rs 4000-5000 crore out of the total Indian seed market of about Rs 9000 -10000 crore. Currently in India, 11 million hectares is under the cultiva-tion of Bt cotton.

Globally the acreage under GM crops is also steadily increasing, this being the 18th year of commercial cultivation of GM crops across the world. According to the International Service for Acquisition of Agri-Bio-tech Applications (ISAAA) an inter-national organization that tracks the GM acreages, GM crops have con-tinued to expand in 2013 at around 3 percent. The acreage under GM crops increased to 175.2 million hectares in 2013, about 5 million hectares more

OpportunitiesThe success of BT Cotton had triggered growth of R&D labs that were taking crop by technology seriously and had started biotech division which was taking improvement in diverse crops through GM and Molecular Mark-ers route. These were providing good employment opportunities to biotech scientist. However, moratorium on BT brinjal has discouraged the potential growth in this sector.

Echoing these thoughts Dr TM Manju-nath, Consultant in Agri-biotechnology & Integrated Pest Management and former Director, Monsanto Research Center, said “The growth of agribiotech industry has been slow mainly due to unreasonable delay in the regulatory ap-proval of new products. With the Prime Minister, agriculture minister and the new environment minister openly lamenting such delays and expressing support for agribiotechnology, the situation is most likely to improve in the near future”. “Research on a number

DR TM MANJUNAThConsultant, Agri-biotechnology & Integrated Pest Management

PROF gK gARgEx Director, Krishidhan Research Foundation Pvt Ltd

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of new products is at various stages of regulatory approval and once they enter the market, it would stimulate interest of more industries and academic bodies and there will be opportunities for more jobs”, he added.

Currently Bt brinjal, insect resistant rice and products containing the her-bicide resistance trait are ready but are awaiting approval from the concerned ministry for commercial release.

Apart from the seed industry, there are emerging opportunities in biofertilizer and biopesticide industries largely due to technology transfers from the public sector (the public funded research institutes).

There are also limited opportunities with current disease indexing through PCR or immunotechnologies. In fact this area offers entrepreneurial oppor-tunities also.

“Technology is fast becoming a clear differentiator in the Indian agri technology/seed market. Therefore the job opportunities for candidates with domain knowledge in the area of crop breeding, Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) and crop transformation are growing”, averred Dr KK Narayanan, Managing Director, Metahelix Life Sciences Ltd, a Bangalore based agricultural biotechnology company focusing on developing traits and technologies for crop protection and improved productivity.

PROMINENT BIOAGRI COMPANIES■ Agri Life■ Ankur Seeds■ JK Agri Genetics■ Krishidhan Seeds■ Mahyco■ Mavens Biotech■ Metahelix■ Monsanto India■ Nath Seeds■ Naziveedu Seeds■ Rasi Seeds

Job CategoriesAs many traditional seed companies have also branched out into agricul-tural biotechnology, the industry has requirements in the areas of research, technical support and marketing. Most of the companies are both into product development and marketing. Generally the qualifications required for research and development is a postgraduate, doctorate, post doctorate degree with specialization in plant molecular biolo-gy, biotechnology, tissue culture, plant breeding, seed technology, genetics, genomics, and proteomics, whereas, for a marketing role, a MBA, MSc Agri, graduate/postgraduate degree with relevant experience in sales and marketing is the preferred choice.Apart from research, job opportunities exist in teaching, product develop-ment, extension, marketing, research administration, etc. Depending on the domain specialization of the company, the job categories vary and accord-ingly the qualifications required also differ. “The entry level positions would be that of a junior scientist. Oppor-tunities for managerial positions in research are there; however, candidates should have the appropriate qualifica-tion plus proven experience,” said Dr Narayanan.

On the research front, first and foremost jobs are in the area of molec-ular biology and genetic engineering for the development of GM crops clubbed with discovery or technology transfers of unique beneficial genes. Expertise in technology search and transfer, IPR, and regulatory affairs can be in demand. The other area is molec-ular breeding where development and use of molecular markers for improved productivity and stress resistance are going to be much in demand.

“As the agri industry becomes strong, I foresee a growth in genomic based industry for line purification and molecular breeding support. Another area which is waiting for attraction and induction is doubled haploid technol-

ogies, especially, in vegetable crops for the development of hybrids with high productivity and better quality,” pointed out Dr Garg.

Key Skill SetsAs an employer in the agri industry, most persons look for excellent tech-nical skills and knowledge in domain area but so also bent of mind to visualize commercial advantage. Such techno-commercial persons are rare as the academic curriculum is packed only with technical side rarely if any there are components that are relevant to innovation and commercialization. “The ability to learn and an attitude to work in multi-disciplinary teams, will take students far ahead in the sector. Good grounding in the fundamen-tals, soft skills like communication, organized record keeping, and problem solving approach are some of the other traits that are valued among candi-dates”, said Dr Narayanan.“If a student is seeking a career in higher research or technology develop-ment, acquiring current trends in the domain with thorough understanding and expertise in basics techniques. A commercial bent of mind is absolutely essential which is nothing but common sense that how to develop a product that beside being beneficial also can be produced at mass scale at econom-ic price with ease in quality control,” advised Dr Garg.

Sharing some tips from his vast experience Dr Manjunath said, “Students must identify their own skill and aptitude and should be guided by them. The willingness to learn, share and work in a team; commitment and discipline; an urge to excel; and more-over, a very healthy attitude towards work and people form the backbone of a successful career”. So students must constantly muse on what can benefit farmers and consumers, how to reach the benefits to them and also ensure enough reasonable profit to industry to create a win-win situation ■

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Bioinformatics and biotechnology are multidisciplinary in nature. Special methodologies are char-

acteristic of both domains. Activities in these areas have existed since several decades. In the recent past, however, bioinformatics and biotechnology have emerged as a major subject of study, particularly in graduate (BSc, BE/BTech) and post-graduate (MSc, ME/MTech) programs. The true value of these subjects was masked by the ‘hype’ created around the time of reporting of the first human genomic projects. Bio-informatics and molecular biology are essential for basic and applied biology*. Even though many students had un-realistic expectations in terms of jobs/career, the actual ‘scope’ in these areas is likely to be there as long as human life persists.Like other sectors, there are more degree/diploma holders in life sciences, but real employable young-sters are less. This is mainly because the quality of related courses at many edu-cational organizations in India has not been of good standards. Hence, there is a large unmet need for graduates and post-graduates with ‘real’ capacities. If the students are careful in selecting

the organization for their study, they are more likely to find good jobs and, more importantly, grow quickly in their career. This article intends to provide a quick review of various aspects related to capacity development and career op-portunities in the bioinformatics arena.

what is my strength vs. weakness, and what type of job suits me?Finding an answer to such questions requires constant study of options available as well as self-assess-ment. There is a need to identify the strengths and weaknesses across sub-jects and find out the most suitable job for oneself. This can be done with the help of a nation-wide online job-suitability-assessment system (SOTS-JSA; www.shodhaka.com/sotsj-sa). The profiles of students/test-takers will also be made available for potential employers (companies and academic groups) so that they can be screened for job-interviews.

who can study these subjects?Bioinformatics and biotechnology courses need to include substantial amount of teaching in biochemistry, cell biology and molecular biology. Howev-er, it is a misconception that bioinfor-matics suits biologists better than other science students. Core expertise (see next sections and table 1) in bioinfor-matics require knowledge and skills from other science and technology areas. Hence, biologists* and non-biolo-gists perform equally well; many times, non-biologists do better than biologists in bioinformatics (observation by the author during his 11 years of teach-ing). It is sad that many students from statistics, physics, mathematics, com-puter-science and chemistry streams are not aware of the opportunities in bioinformatics.

User-end bioinformatics (UEB), molecular biology and core bioinformatics: While plenty of arti-cles/books@ have elaborated on the type of biotechnology activities, bioinfor

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matics domain has not been explained that well. It is convenient to consider a bioinformatician as someone with a specialization of one or more of the following expertises (also see the Table 1 above for more specific activities and corresponding bioinformatics capacities):

1. Creating and managing data-bases as well as software tools: These types of activities are best carried out by bioinformaticians with specific expertise. But a group can pool multiple types of expertise to develop databases and software.

The expertise required in under-standing biological experiments and

the research process is particularly high when the database creation involves data-curation (also called biocuration#). Curated data can be inputs for databases2, but biocurator(s) need not know much about databases or programming.

2. Developing new algorithms or computational methods for bioinformatics: Development of a rapid method to compare a sequence with millions of other sequences3 is a good example of such activity. Other examples include developing new methods of predicting genes, special-ized sequence analysis, genome-wide

or system-wide analysis of molecules and their interactions and rapid analysis of large scale data-sets from novel methods such as Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and mass spectros-copy.

3. Biological research using the knowledge and skills of computa-tional, biological and other science subjects: Common bioinformatics research areas include computational structural biology4, cheminformatics5 and mathematical modeling of molec-ular networks (eg, pathways or all or most interactions within a complete cell6.) Drug designing7 involves com-

Table 1. A broad classification of job-responsibilities and corresponding type of capacities required for them.

S.NO. jOB-RESPONSIBILITY CAPACITIES

1. Creating and/or maintaining software for biologists Independent programming in two or more languages (Perl, Bioperl, Python, Java, R, PHP, C, C++, html); basic operations in linux; good knowledge in mathematics and statistics.

2. Creating and/or maintaining databases Command over MySQL, oracle and decent/moderate capacities as mentioned in row 1 will also be required.

3. Creating molecular networks and mathematically modelling or simulating pathways or cells as a system (systems biology)

Same capacities mentioned above, in row 1, will help. Moderate to intense knowledge in biochemistry, particularly enzymology, and high-throughput data analysis will be required too. Depth of knowledge required in mathematics and statistics is even higher.

4. Studying structures of macromolecules (such as DNA or proteins) and/or their interactions, via computers

Clear knowledge in at least basic chemistry and physics, and the capacities mentioned in row 1.

5. Studying structures and chemical properties of small molecules (cheminformatics or chemoinformatics)

Almost same capacities as mentioned in the above row. But advanced knowledge of chemistry, and some understanding of pharmacology, will help.

6. Data analysis Ability to select appropriate databases and software from a biologist’s perspective, use them and interpret the results. Moderate to intense knowledge in cell and molecular biology are often essen tial. Linux operations and familiarity with programming can help.

7. Biocuration A good understanding of the research process, particularly the relationship between biotechniques, their applications and data interpretations will be needed. Experience in reading research papers. Moderate to intense knowledge in cell and molecular biology are often essential. Command over English language and ability to quickly understand research papers will help.

8. Data entry and management A basic understanding of biological concepts and databases. Training in a specialized domain of requirement is likely to be provided by the employer.

9. Clinical data analysis and management Multiple types of jobs that require medical and/or other biological domain knowledge. Some of the types of responsibilities need moderate to very reliable expertise in programming and/or statistics.


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putational structural biology. There are also many bioinformatics approaches employed by scientists in basic or ap-plied research.The above-listed exper-tises are often integrated; for example,a new algorithm may be used to develop new software, which is integrated into a database2. And, the actual purpose of all this could be to eventually address a research-problem such as understand-ing the regulation of gene expression. In fact, the next type of activity is also never a stand-alone expertise.

4. UEB: It is mainly about accessing and analyzing biological data. These ac-tivities require a general understanding of the process of research in life sciences and acquaintance with at least the most commonly used databases and software (there are too many of these resources; see www.startbioinfo.com). Despite being the simplest and most widely required type of activity, this perhaps is often taken too lightly in many of our teaching programs, including MPhil and course-works for PhD, across bio-logical domains. Most biology* students seem to lack the ability to pick the apt database or software for different type of research problems, and interpret the output of these resources. Anal-ysis of mass-scale data is particularly crucial for genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics - which pervade many biological problem-solving cases in the recent years.

Biology* students/researchers will benefit better if they have at least a broad understanding of the other core bioinformatics types, in addition to UEB. Similarly, bioinformatics of any type would be more complete if the students know the basic biotech-niques and understand how the data/information is obtained in molecular biology. Many have stressed the need of incorporating bioinformatics in different subjects at different levels8. Actually, UEB and training for molec-ular biology techniques should be an essential part of any bio-course, but are often neglected.

Degrees and CapacitiesAs with many other subjects, though there are lots of degree/diploma hold-ers in the subject, the number of good quality employable youngsters seems to be low in the recent years. It is import-ant to realize the significance of type of capacities (domain knowledge and skills, see table 1) and the required level of expertise. Unfortunately, the quality of bioinformatics courses at many educational organizations in India has not been of good standards. Students should not be carried away by the external glitter/glamour of organizations in India/abroad. In fact, many students who have done MS-abroad also may not be really learning much. Trying an MS degree abroad is a good idea only if the University/Institute is a reputed one and a scholarship is offered by the same.

One way to find the right place for higher education is to look for depart-ments or specialized institutes with good research publications in peer-reviewed journals having good impact factor (IF**). This is because, a good research work requires good facilities and knowl-edge, and they are also the key aspects for good learning. This is true for most higher-studies/courses in any science subject. Students can use pubmed## to get publications from a specific institute and names of the faculty members (using ‘affiliation’ and ‘author’ fields while searching). Students should be also cautious about low-quality-journals; they accept any article submitted to them, and colleges publishing in such journals are not perceived to be doing good quality research.

Obtaining PhD, and often a post doctoral research experience (usually 2-4 years), is a must if one intends to lead research project(s). The extent of inde-pendence in choosing research topic by a scientist is often severely limited when working in companies (where salaries can be higher), while in most academic organizations it is compounded with

multiple other responsibilities such as teaching and other associated respon-sibilities. Many other allied jobs (such as teaching, technical support, market-ing, scientific-unit-management, IPR management etc) may also sometimes require a doctorate degree. Fortunate-ly, several government-schemes offer financial support for bright candidates while studying PhD. Mere doctorate degree and post doctoral experience will not help. It is also important to have authorship in good research publications in at least moderate IF-journals. In other words, one has to attain best capacities for research, with proof.

Important notes: A. Multiple job-handling and multiple capacities are always better, but not at the cost of at least one type of reliable expertise.B. Clear conceptual understanding of fundamentals in biochemistry, genet-ics, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology, microbiology and immunol-ogy are essential for bioinformatics and biotechnology.C. At least a moderate and independent programming capacity is needed for most bioinformatics jobs.

where do I find jobs?There have been many fluctuationsin bioinformatics and biotech employers globally. It should be noted that the rapid changes in bio-technolo-gies (such as microarray and NGS), focus on biosimilars (macromolecules used for disease-treatments) etc.have also influenced the rise and fall of companies, departments and/or their strategies.

While there are many biotech-companies of various nature, there are fewer companies in India that can be identified with mainly bioinfor-matics activities. The article can only give examples. Strand Life Sciences (http://www.strandls.com) is known for production of commercial software useful for data analysis. Biobase


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(http://www.biobase-international.com), a multinational company - with a branch in Bengaluru & ‘Molecular Connections’ (www.molecularconnections.com) have been active in biocuration and program-ming domains. Several small companies have started recently. For example, Shodhaka Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. (www.shodhaka.com) is active in the areas of service providing (data analysis) for other scientists as well as training.

But many jobs are available outside specialized organizations as most biolog-ical research today requires bioinformat-ics and/or molecular biology expertise. Such requirements frequently occur in R&D centres of biotech and related com-panies as well as in academic research groups (please refer to the institutions given in the last section of the book).

Summary StatementsBioinformaticians and biotechnologists have roles to play in different types of companies and academic research divisions. Hence, even if the number of pure bioinformatics and biotechnology companies does not increase consider-ably in India or abroad in near future, bioinformaticians and biotechnologists will most probably continue to be in demand. However, the type of expertise required will be different depending on the type of the organization and/or responsibilities of the job. From the point of learning and capacity-building, it is essential to have an excellent concep-tual understanding of biology subjects

(e.g., biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology), and skills for bio-techniques and UEB.

By the time one completes the edu-cation (BE, BTech, MSc, MTech) he/she should be able to take up any respon-sibility, or to at least start executing the assigned tasks, with minimum help/guidance. To attain the right capacities one has to take apt courses. If main courses fall short for any reasons, addi-tional short courses, internships/proj-ect-works can be extremely useful, even after completion of formal courses. The real expertise comes only with years of work. Most importantly, making the best use of all such learning opportunities can help to be a ‘beginner with reason-able capacity and confidence’ ■

REFERENCES/NOTES:*Biology &/or life sciences, in this article, refers to any/all of these: biotechnology, molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, microbiology, biochemistry, zoology, bota-ny, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, agriculture, veterinary science, pharma-cology, health sciences & similar/related subjects.

@ FURThER READINg:• Career opportunities in biotechnology and drug development, Toby Freedman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008.• Career development in bioengineering and biotechnology, G. Madhavan, B. Oakley & L. Kun, Springer, 2008.** IF is a crude measure of utility or popularity of published articles; IF of most reputed journals ranges from approximately

0.9 (e.g., Current Science) to 32 (Cell).# Biocuration is the process of capturing the gist of sections from research papers, about experimental results & conclusions; it might also involve assessing &/or interpreting the reliability of scientific data in the context of specific biological events.## www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

ExAMPLE-ARTICLES:2. A novel tissue-specific meta-analysis approach for gene expression predictions, initiated with a mammalian gene expression testis database. PMID: 20699007, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/467.3. Basic local alignment search tool. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2231712.4. Designing artificial enzymes by intu-ition & computation. PMID: 21124375; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443871.5. Computational databases, pathway & cheminformatics tools for tuberculosis drug discovery. PMID: 21129975; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC30348356. When ubiquitination meets phosphoryla-tion: a systems biology perspective of EGFR/MAPK signalling. PMID: 23902637; http://www.biosignaling.com/content/11/1/52.7. Structure-based ligand design & the promise held for antiprotozoan drug discov-ery. PMID: 19103598; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673241.8. Educating biologists in the 21st century: bioinformatics scientists versus bioinfor-matics technicians. Bioinformatics 20 (14) p. 2159-2161. PMID: 15073013 http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/con-tent/20/14/2159.full.pdf+html?sid=1f9f8fd1-ffeb-4762-b2b4-1d041eeaaa3f

DR KShITISh AChARYA KFounder Director of Shodhaka Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd.

Dr Acharya has 22 years of research experience with about six years in industry and four years in USA. He hasbeen at IBAB (www.ibab.ac.in) for 11 years and is also the founder director of Shodhaka Lifesciences Pvt Ltd (www.shodhaka.com) since 2009. He has conceived and organized a unique and successful 14-months course titled ‘Laboratory course in bio-techniques’ with about 95 percent placement record in eight batches. With an experience in screening more than 500 candidates for several positions, he has also placed students in various organizations. He regularly gives talks, writes articles and conducts workshops on topics related to human resource development and career planning. He can be reached at [email protected].


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The biggest challenge in the phar-ma industry is the development of new drug molecules at an

affordable cost. Currently the approx-imate price of bringing a new drug to the market is pegged at four billion US dollars, which too is a conservative estimate. The pressures on R&D cost containment across the global phar-maceutical industry opened doors for a new working model that of contract services or outsourcing of some modules involved in the drug discovery chain.

The Indian BioServices or contract services market primarily consists of contract research, contract manufac-turing and clinical services. This has evolved into a big industry as India offers a strong manufacturing base at com-petitive costs, supported by a qualified engineering/medical base and scientific talent.

According to the latest BioSpectrum ABLE survey done in FY 2012-13, the overall bioscience industry (compris-ing of biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, clinical and contract research services, enzymes, bioagri, and bioinformatics) recorded Rs 23,524 crore in sales of which the BioPharma, clinical trials and contract research sectors accounted for 82 percent market share. The Bioservices

BioServices: An Evolving Industryindustry alone is worth 4,329 crore and has registered 15.5 percent growth over the previous year.

Notably from the students perspec-tive, the opportunities available and expertise required for contract research and manufacturing are the same as that in the biopharma sector. Hence the focus of the article is the clinical services segment. The CRO (Clinical Research Organizations industry) is a major employer of medical and scientific staff. Broadly the CROs are involved in conducting clinical programs/trials for external customers like pharma compa-nies; Conducting Bioequivalence and Bioavailability studies (BE/BA studies); Medical writing, Regulatory services; Clinical data management (CDM) ser-vices among others.

The Indian Clinical Services indus-try is about 15 years old and during the first 10 years (till 2009-10) the sector witnessed good growth. Post 2010, the sector and precisely the clinical trials industry took a hit due to lack of clear regulations governing the sector and widespread allegations of malpractices against the doctors and agencies con-ducting the trials.

This resulted in a slowdown in the industry and according to industry estimates, led to more than 60 percent dip in the clinical trials business during the past 3-4 years. In late 2013, after the sweeping changes were made to the rules of the Drug and Cosmetic Act 1940, which governs clinical trials, it is believed that the industry will gradually gain momentum.

Clinical trial is a data and quality intensive work and may involve lot of travelling. The scope of any error is very limited and involves high degree of both personal and professional ethics. India has been projected to grow in this field on account of adequate patient popula-tion having a wide spectrum of diseases, qualified medical professionals, good

communication network and IT capabilities.

In a CRO the job categories could be multifaceted like Clinical Research Coordinator, Clinical Research Investiga-tor, Clinical Research Associate, Clinical Research Physician, Study Coordinator, Regulatory Affairs Manager, Clinical ▶

Clinical TrialsClinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human subjects that are designed to answer specific ques-tions about biomedical or behav-ioral interventions (novel vaccines, drugs, treatments, devices or new ways of using known interventions), generating safety and efficacy data. They are conducted in a series of steps, called phases - each phase is designed to answer a separate research question.

Phase I: Researchers test a new drug or treatment in a small group of people for the first time to evaluate its safety, determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects.

Phase II: The drug or treatment is given to a larger group of people to see if it is effective and to further evaluate its safety.

Phase III: The drug or treatment is given to large groups of people to confirm its effectiveness, monitor side effects, compare it to com-monly used treatments, and collect information that will allow the drug or treatment to be used safely.

Phase IV: Studies are done after the drug or treatment has been mar-keted to gather information on the drug’s effect in various populations and any side effects associated with long-term use.

(Source: US National Library of Medicine)

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■ Anhvita BioPharma■ Clintec International■ Excel Life Sciences■ ICON Central Laboratories■ Lotus labs■ Max Neeman International■ Norwich Clinical Services■ Quintiles■ Semler Research Centre■ SIRO Clinpharm


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◀ Trials Auditor, Analytical Chemists, Trial Materials Manager,Clinical Project Manager, Medical Writers, Documen-tation Personnel, Lab Technicians, Data Manager/Biostatisticians, Business Development Manager, Drug Safety Associate, etc.

Talking about the need of infusing fresh talent into the industry, Nimita Limaye, Vice President, CDM, Medical Writing and Risk Based Monitoring, TCS said, “Currently, there is a dire need for qualified professionals in this industry. Though most of the companies have in house programs for further training in the

“Students should learn, adapt and move on”

President and Chief Executive Officer, Semler Research Centre

DR KRAThISh BOPANNA

relevant areas but the industry prefers to hire candidates having some prior knowl-edge about the industry and not just the theoretical information that the students gather during their college courses.” To cater to this requirement a large number of clinical research training institutes have come up in the country which offer the much needed orientation and a variety of courses related to clinical research indus-try. Students can take these courses after graduation or post-graduation studies.

Besides the educational qualifications, the CRO professionals put a premium on the attitude and the aptitude of the

candidate while hiring them. The roles in the clinical research industry can be diverse ranging from data to patient management, so graduates from medical, life sciences, statistics, finance, computer science, engineering and marketing can venture into this sector.

Currently estimated at 500 million US dollars, India’s clinical research market is projected to more than double and cross one billion US dollar mark by 2016 driven by favorable factors like diverse and acces-sible population, availability of low cost and effective resources ■

(SRC) is part of US based Arnold A Semler Inc. It provides a wide range of services, primarily in the areas of pharmaceutical development, bio-availability & bioequivalence studies, early & late phase clinical develop-ment, regulatory services and medi-cal & scientific writing to the global biopharmaceutical industry.“Ideally, in the clinical space, there is a high demand for pharmacol-ogy candidates (B Pharma, M Phar-ma) and in view of dearth of students with the relevant background candidates having biosciences/biotech background stand a good chance of entry. There are many opportunities available in the clinical research sector in pharmacovigilance, data management, medical affairs, regula-tory affairs, lab management, business development, patient management, etc.

Dr Krathish Bopanna comments about the CRO Industry dynamics and provides some tips to students on entering this industry. Banga-lore based Semler Research Center

The current clinical research market in India is about 400-500 million US dollars of which the phar-macovigilance segment alone is about 200 million US dollars. In the prevail-ing regulatory environment in India, the clinical services like data manage-ment, pharmacovigilance studies, etc, are doing good business but the clinical trials are not faring well.”

Sharing some finer points during hiring, he added, “While interviewing candidates, we look for good written and oral communication skills, the flexibility to get trained along with a strong foundation in science. Students should be passionate about what they do. They should keep reading; keep themselves updated as learning is a continuous process in this fast devel-oping sector. The mantra for students should be to learn, adapt and move on.”

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OpportunitiesThe sector is abound with opportunities for people from diverse backgrounds, which are predominantly in the area of sales and marketing, application support and technical services.

“Opportunities are growing every day with new emerging techniques and applications, more importantly in the advanced molecular diagnostics seg-ment. The job options could be in prod-uct marketing, as application specialist or even in sales of biotech products. Another job category can be as technical specialist for specific product applica-tions,” said Neeraj Gupta, Director Sales and Marketing, Imperial Life Science Limited. The company represents many leading global suppliers in India and provides complete solutions in instru-mentation, reagents, bioinformatics and consumables. Besides that, Imperial has a range of products for genomics, proteomics, cell culture, drug discovery and bioproduction labs.

The BioSuppliers is a niche segment unlike the biopharma or bioagri sector and so there is no one set pattern of job profile for required candidates. In fact it is difficult to group all the biosup-pliers together as they could be pure trading companies or manufacturers. Further, the companies can be based on the nature of equipment/instruments or reagents, enzymes etc., which they distribute or manufacture.

Nevertheless, the sector offers good career opportunity for graduates/post graduates and doctorates with bio or chemical engineering background with a couple of years of experience in a lab or industry. Depending on whether the company is dealing in generic or high tech products, equipment, consumables, disposables, etc., the profile of required

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candidates may vary from company to company.

For example, if the core competency of the organization is making reagents, diagnostic kits, enzymes, etc., then it will require candidates possessing post-graduation or doctorate degree in biochemistry, biotechnology, microbiol-ogy or related life science fields. And if the company is a distributor of biotech products, then it will require candidates having sound technical knowledge about the products along with strong sales and marketing background.

Key Skillsets“For each role the prospective employ-er is looking at domain expertise, for example, we are dealing with Microar-ray and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) based technologies and for that we are looking for candidates having the required exposure. If the educational courses offer students hands on expo-sure to these latest cutting edge technol-ogies, then the Industry can adopt them faster. Similarly for sales and marketing roles, a biotech focussed marketing or sales induction is a must for the candi-dates so that they are primed well before beginning their career”, said Praveen Gupta, Executive Director, PREMAS Biotech, which is a Gurgaon based Con-tract Research and Manufacturing Ser-vices (CRAMS) organization. PREMAS has partnered with Illumina in provid-ing high quality genetic analysis solution to the biosciences industry.

Concurring with his views, Neeraj Gupta said, “We require candidates with understanding and knowledge of advanced techniques and most impor-tantly hands on experience in such tech-nologies. This is now becoming the most limiting factor in hiring candidates. One

The BioSuppliers industry pro-vides instrumentation, con-sumables and software solution

and support to the biotech industry for advancing discoveries in basic research, studying diseases/animals/plants at the micro level and accelerating the drug discovery process.

There is a large range of biosupplier companies operating in the country. These include large multinationals like Agilent Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bio-Rad India that have set up subsidiaries in India and supply sophisticated instruments and equip-ment to aid scientific discovery. Along with the multinationals there is a large array of India based compa-nies which manufacture and supply key equipment and consumables to the biosciences sector.

According to the annual BioSpec-trum-ABLE survey, in 2012-13, the BioSuppliers industry registered a growth of Rs 5,324 crore in revenues, which amounted to 9.13 percent growth over the previous year. Elaborating about the market dynamics, Mayank Kumar Srivastava, Marketing Program Manager, LifeSciences Group, Agilent Technologies India said, “Currently in India the total life sciences suppliers market across different verticals like aca-demia, pharmaceutical, clinical sector, food testing, forensic testing, etc. is over 1 billion US dollars; whereas the total analytics business in India is over 700 million US dollars”. Agilent Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis (LSCA) provides instruments, software, services and con-sumables to the life science and chemi-cal analysis markets. Currently Agilent has over 1500 professionals engaged in marketing, sales and customer support, R&D, engineering services and support and transaction processing in India.


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should focus on not only theoretical knowledge but also try to acquire practi-cal experience for advanced techniques. In the different domains of life science one should have focused segment expertise.”

HR Managers of leading biosuppli-er companies have indicated that they require graduates/postgraduates with a basic biological background and any ad-ditional qualifications would add value. The candidates should possess integrity, team-playing capability and the ability to work independently. Teamwork, self-motivation, perseverance, technical skills and a positive attitude are some of the other attributes that they look for in a candidate.

Elaborating about the job opportuni-ties at Agilent, Mayank said, “At Agilent India we have three main job categories: application support, service support and sales and marketing. The qualities that we look for in candidates are an extrovert attitude, good communication skills, basic technical knowledge along with analytical skills.” “Previous experi-ence in a wet lab, bioinformatics compa-ny or market research/analysis projects is an added advantage. Although prior experience is desirable but not neces-sary as we also hire freshers and go for

campus recruitments to institutions like SRM University, Tamil Nadu, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Tamil Nadu, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, where we place a premium on the ability to think strategically and analyse business dynamics. From the qualification perspective we look for B Pharma/M Pharma, B Tech Biotech/M Tech Biotech, M Sc Biotech/Biochem-istry students,” he added. The product portfolio at Agilent spans a broad range of analytical techniques, including: Gas Chromatography and Gas Chroma-tography/Mass Spectroscopy; Liquid Chromatography and Liquid Chroma-tography/Mass Spectroscopy; ICP-MS DNA microarrays and bioanalyzers; Measurement tools for nanotechnology along with a selection of supplies and consumables.

Summing up the expectations of the industry, it can be concluded that a cou-ple of years of either sales experience in a similar company or a couple of years of research experience in a lab or industry helps since most of the companies are technology-intensive. Specialization in a particular area is a definite plus. In fact, the trend is towards higher educational qualification in addition to basic sales and marketing skills, as the companies

believes in not just selling a product but in helping the customer complete his entire research process successfully us-ing their respective products. Therefore, it is essential for the employee to have a scientific mind and a good rapport with the customer.A final piece of advice for the students is that they should get some industry perspective before they start on a career path in the industry. There is growth and opportunity in each stream (sales, marketing, application support, technical service, etc,) and one should carefully chose the arena based on their inherent skill sets ■

PROMINENT BIOSUPPLIER COMPANIES■ Agilent Technologies India■ BD Biosciences India■ Beckman Coulter Life Sciences ■ Bio-Rad India■ DSS Imagetech■ HiMedia Laboratories■ Imperial Life Science■ Sartorius India■ Shimadzu Analytical India■ Thermo Fisher Scientific■ Waters India

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India’s biotechnology industry has evolved in a challenging environment of sub-optimal funding, inadequate

infrastructure and weak regulation. What is commendable is the sustained growth momentum the sector has delivered over the years and the scale that many segments have realized.

diverse cross section of industries from pharmaceuticals to agriculture, industrial enzymes and informatics.

Furthermore, synthetic biology is gaining great prominence in developing new diagnostics, novel vaccines and drugs and a number of value added nutritional and food ingredients.

Another evolving field of study is the area of bio-markers and companion diagnostics, which is the future of new medicine that will personalize therapy and optimize the benefits of biotech drugs.

Another frontier area is DNA-based biometrics which can far outweigh the benefits of retinal and fingerprinting technologies of today and emerge as the most reliable identification technology of the future.

Unequipped for IndustryWhile specialised life sciences skills are needed to address all these opportunities, a wide gap currently exists between the quality of human capital available and the needs of the industry.

A lack of necessary laboratory infrastructure at many Indian colleges means many biotech graduates have not probably used a basic biotech tool such as a gel apparatus. Such lacunae make their undergraduate knowledge inadequate for an industry setup.

The need of the hour is therefore to equip students not only with theoreti-cal skills but also help them specialize in their chosen field of biotechnology through a rigorous multidisciplinary project oriented approach that encom-passes practical training on sophisticated laboratory instruments.

About 40,000 biotechnology students pass out every year from various colleges across the country. However, the skills gap denies most of these graduates em-ployment opportunities at the over 500 biotech companies in India.

On an average, 300-500 hopefuls apply for every new biotechnology

high Quality Talent to Fuel Biotech growthKIRAN MAZUMDAR ShAw CMD, Biocon

The sector is currently valued at about 11 billion US dollars, having grown at a CAGR of nearly 20 percent over the last 10 years. It is estimated that enabling policies can create a favourable busi-ness environment capable of generating biotech revenues of 100 billion US dollars by 2025.

The success of the Indian biotech sector is attributable to a large pool of English speaking scientific and engineer-ing talent and an educated technical work force that has enabled cost competitive R&D and manufacturing to provide India with a significant competitive edge over many other nations. India now aspires to position itself as a leading global innova-tion hub for biotechnology.

The path ahead is fraught with challenges of mounting global competi-tion which in turn also offer enormous opportunities of growth. Success will largely depend on the availability of high end talent, easy access to capital and simpler regulation. The reality of the day is that our talent pool is shrinking, our regulatory environment has become dra-conian and access to capital is difficult. Of these, we must pay urgent attention to the growing skill deficit that the biotech sector faces in our ability to develop biosimilar drugs that will augment India’s pharma success in generic drugs; genetically modified crops, biofuels and enzyme based green technologies.

Our academic institutes of learning and research have focused on developing large numbers of qualified personnel but not necessarily with the skills and quality attributes sought by industry to compete globally. It is vital to fix the skills deficit if we are to attain our global aspirations.

Rising Demand for Specialized SkillsToday, the rapid pace at which scientif-ic knowledge is advancing puts a high demand on highly skilled scientists and engineers. We need to push the bound-aries of genetic engineering in order to find innovative applications across a

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related job vacancy but most are rejected as they are just not industry ready.

Many Indian biotech students, who can afford the fees, choose to go abroad for higher studies, attracted by the possi-bilities of working in state-of-the-art labs and the aspiration of working for leading biotech innovators.

Those without the wherewithal for a foreign degree, typically apply for jobs in biotech and pharma companies or universities and research institutes in India. However, only a handful find the employment of their choice and most resign themselves trapped in underpaid technical, marketing and administrative roles in unrelated sectors like the BPO sector. Another common complaint of new recruits is unattractive starting sal-aries compared to the IT sector. This is on account of the investment that biotech companies need to make to train them before they are job-ready.

Need for Bold Education InitiativesTo increase their chances of employabil-ity, biotech graduates in India need to be trained effectively to make them indus-try ready where they can partake in the journey of transforming India through the power of biotechnology. Moreover, we simply have to expand the talent pool if India’s biotech sector has to grow and compete globally.

The Government of Karnataka under the Millennium Biotech Policy-II has set up 12 Biotech Finishing Schools (BTFS) across the state. These institutes aim at imparting professional skills to biotech graduates to make them employable across the sector. BTFS enrols nearly 150 students every year.

As a responsible corporate citizen, Biocon has also spearheaded an initiative that will provide the biotech industry the best professionals with the right orienta-tion and training. We have set up the Biocon Academy as a one-of-its-kind Centre of Excellence for Advanced Learning in Applied Bio-Sciences.

Biocon Academy will focus on developing the spirit of experimentation, application of knowledge and innovation skills among bio-scientists in India. It will enable them to unlock their poten-tial and foster excellence in the biotech sector. Biocon Academy is committed to bridging the current gap that exists between academic knowledge and industry skills.

By collaborating with leading academic institutions globally, Biocon Academy aims to bring world class training programs for biotech students in India and thus develop a new cadre of life sciences professionals with special-ized skills.

A Brand New Start Biocon Academy has partnered with Keck Graduate Institute, California, in this important endeavour.

KGI is uniquely qualified, through its outstanding faculty and its state-of-the-art infrastructure that includes the Amgen Bioprocessing Center, to partner Biocon Academy in this endeavour.

As a premier technical institute, KGI’s training and education programs have built a very strong capability for the US Biopharma sector. Through this partnership we hope to emulate the suc-cess of the KGI learning model in India and build a robust biotech sector.

The ‘Biocon KGI Certificate Program in Biosciences’, our flagship program in collaboration with KGI, provides a multidisciplinary best-in-class 16-week program in biosciences that will equip graduates and post-graduates with the skills needed to make them employable in the biotech sector.

With a broad-based curriculum encompassing R&D, Production asper GMP, Quality Assurance, Regulato-ry, Product Development and Profes-sional skills, these programs are aimed at addressing the skill deficit of the Indian biotech sector.

The course has been designed to give students a deep insight into the workings of the biopharmaceutical in-

dustry through classroom sessions and hands-on training.The first batch with 30 students started in Jan 2014. These students from diverse backgrounds are being trained by subject matter experts at Biocon in real life business situa-tions. The classroom sessions are being anchored by renowned KGI faculty from Claremont, California.

In addition to technical sessions and classroom assignments from KGI, students are getting hands-on expe-rience at various facilities of Biocon. While focusing on the technical skill development, the course is also provid-ing an opportunity to these students to hone their professional skills through dedicated training.

This contemporary industry-oriented course curriculum is designed to prepare students with the skills need-ed to succeed as employees at Biocon and other leading biotech companies of the world.

In keeping with Biocon’s commit-ment to affordability and greater access, the company is offering a merit scholar-ship that covers up to 75% of the course fee for meritorious students chosen through a rigorous selection process. In addition, Biocon is also assisting the students to avail of study loans from reputed banks for the rest of the course fee.

The current focus of the Academy is to successfully train the first batch of students to find good placements within the biopharma industry. It plans to start the second batch in June 2014 and aims to develop at least 100 professionals in the first year.

Biotechnology can be a powerful tool in addressing the country’s challenges of meeting the food, education and health-care needs of millions. It can play a very positive role in enhancing the quality of life of the people.

If India is to emerge as a Bio-Econo-my by 2025, the development of indus-try-ready human capital for the biotech industry is of vital importance. Biocon Academy hopes to make a significant contribution to this ambitious goal ■

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EDUCATION & RESEARCH

In India there is a large network of higher educational institutions which offer fruitful and satisfying

career opportunities in biotechnology/biosciences stream in the academia.

According to UGC statistics by the end of XI Plan (by March 2012), the number of Universities in the country was 574 (44 Central, 129 Deemed and 397 State Universities and four Insti-tutions established under Special State Legislature Acts) and the total number of colleges was 35,539. Most of the uni-versities offer higher education in life sciences including specialized streams like biotechnology, microbiology, genetics, biochemistry, etc. In addition, a large number of postgraduate and degree colleges both in the public and private domain offer courses in modern biology.

The universities are considered cradles of innovation and knowledge creation. All of them offer avenues, by way of securing grant/projects, for pursuing advanced research in the chosen field of interest in addition to teaching. Research in universities has three-tier effects concerned with quality of under-graduate and postgraduate education and value of research. The universities are the source of generating high calibre manpower and repositories of national intellectual wealth in science and technology sector, which if chan-nelized properly, can lead to socioeco-nomic development.

Thus, pursuing a career in education and research is highly satisfying for the faculty members as they not only get to pursue their passion in research but simultaneously also train students in modern sciences using sophisticated equipment in the cutting edge research areas. Incidentally the scientists and researchers employed as faculty have more freedom on the direction of their specialized research as compared to those working in the biotech industry.

Nurturing Future MindsThese (academic institutions) are

probably the largest pool of employers of scientists and researchers as qualified and trained faculty in the area of bio-sciences. Students should clear the Na-tional Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by the UGC for Assistant Professorship/Lectureship as the first step towards a career in teaching.

An off repeated comment of the biotech industry insiders is that the quality of students coming out from

them to strive for the best, it makes the dream of his/her life come true.

Research A majority of the trained scientists and researchers in the biosciences realm are absorbed by the various National and State level research laboratories and institutions across the country. Dif-ferent Ministries (Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture) under the Government of India have set up these scientific research institutes to spear-head developments both in basic and applied sciences.

Students with research leanings have a variety of institutes to choose from to further a career in research in the Government sector. For example there are 37 laboratories and 39 field stations under the CSIR, India’s largest R&D or-ganization; ICAR governs 99 institutes and 53 agricultural universities, making it one of the largest national agricultural systems in the world; 31 institutes under the ICMR are spearheading biomedical research; the DST has 21 S&T institu-tions and professional bodies under its umbrella; while the DBT funds and supports all Indian universities, re-search organisations, non-governmental organisations and companies/industry working in the area of biotechnology. The basic qualification required to enter any good laboratory is a post graduate degree with a CSIR-UGC/ICMR/DBT fellowship and/or a good GATE score.

The central and national research institutions are well equipped with the state of art facilities, sophisticated labs, advanced equipment, internationally trained senior scientists and a dynam-ic research environment. They offer research avenues in modern biology cutting across sectors from medical, agriculture, environment, animal hus-bandry, marine sciences, etc ■

the universities is not up to the indus-try standards and there is a huge gap in skills of students as required by the biotech industry. The faculty members can play a major role in this direction. They can mentor students and set new benchmarks for quality training in their respective institutions.

The journey from a student to a teacher shaping young minds is quali-tatively very satisfying. When a teacher motivates his pupils, guides and inspires

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SERICULTURE

Sericulture involves growing of host plants, rearing of silkworms, along with the mechanical tasks of reeling, twisting, weaving and marketing of various value added products and services. The sector offers research opportunities in areas of modern molecular biology and its application towards improving silkworm races and the host plant for better productivity.

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gation of the silk host plant, which has helped to harvest quality cocoons. New silkworm hybrids have been developed and disease forecasting and forewarn-ing technology has been fine-tuned to minimize pest population in sericul-tural areas. This area provides R&D

opportunities for biosciences students. Sericulture in India is mostly man-

aged by the Central Silk Board (CSB), established in 1948, as the nodal agency under the Ministry of Textiles, which is responsible for the development of the silk industry in the country.

Sericulture has reaped many benefits by the adoption of latest technologies. At the level of host

plant and silk worm improvement, modern biology has played an import-ant role and today suitable techniques have been developed for clonal propa-

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India has the unique distinction of being the only country producing all the five known commercial silks, namely, mulberry, tropical tasar, oak tasar, eri and muga, of which muga with its golden yellow glitter is unique to India. India is the second largest producer of silk in the world and has 15.49 percent share in global raw silk production. All the countries except China and India have been witnessing a declining trend in raw silk produc-tion in the last two decades.

Research and DevelopmentScientists working in sericulture R&D are constantly putting their efforts to resolve issues in major areas of sericulture such as silkworm and host plant improvement, pest and disease

CSB RESEARCH AND TRAIN-ING INSTITUTES IN INDIA

1. Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute (CSRTI), Mysore2. Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute (CSRTI), Berhampore3. Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute, (CSRTI), Pampore 4. Central Muga Eri Research and Training Institute (CMERTI), Lahdoigarh5. Central Tasar Research and Training Institute (CTRTI), Ranchi6. Central Silk Technological Research Institute (CSTRI), Bangalore7. Central Sericultural Germplasm Resources Centre (CSGRC), Hosur8. Seri-biotech Research Laboratory (SBRL), Bangalore 9. National Silkworm Seed Organisation (NSSO), Bangalore

management, and reduction in cost of production by developing new innova-tions and technologies for improving the quality of silk fibres to match with international standards. The CSB has also been collaborating with both in-ternational and national agencies and universities involved in sericultural research to harness their technical ex-pertise in highly specialized fields and also to pool resources for the develop-ment of new technologies in frontier areas of sericulture research.

Over the past few decades, the silk industry made good progress with re-gard to productivity and quality of the output. The productivity of mulberry plantation in terms of silk which used to be less than 40 kg per hectare per year has reached 86 kg per hectare per year besides enhancing India’s capa-bility to produce silk of international grades. This could be possible due to evolution of high yielding mulberry varieties.

The CSB has established a series of research and training institutes across the country for the development of sericulture. All the institutes have specific mandates and notably there is a laboratory dedicated to modern biol-ogy research as well. The Seri-Biotech Research Laboratory (SBRL) at Ban-galore, established in 1993, conducts research on frontier areas of modern molecular biology and its application towards improving silkworm races for better productivity.

The other institutes under CSB include the Institutes at Mysore (Karnataka) Berhampore (West Bengal) and Pampore (J&K) that deal with mulberry sericulture. The one at Ranchi (Jharkhand) deals with Tasar culture. The institute established at Ladoigarh, Jorhat (Assam) deals with Muga and eri-culture. The Regional Sericulture Research Station (RSRS / RTRS) for mulberry and non-mul-berry has been functioning for the dissemination of research findings and for tackling the regional field issues of the industry.

Besides, a network of Research Extension Centres (RECs) and its sub units for mulberry and non-mulber-ry are also functioning to provide extension support to sericulturists. In order to provide R&D support in post cocoon sector, the Board has estab-lished a Central Silk Technological Re-search Institute (CSTRI) at Bangalore. In addition, the CSB has also set up a Silkworm Seed Technology Laborato-ry, (SSTL) in Bangalore (Karnataka), a Central Sericultural Germplasm Resource Centre (CSGRC) at Hosur (Tamil Nadu). A total 16 projects have been funded by DBT/DST under CSB R&D institutes.

The volume of R&D done under the various CSB umbrella institutes is reflected in the sizable number of tech-nologies developed and transferred to the end users. During 2007-2012 (the XI Plan) 303 research projects were concluded, 120 technologies were de-veloped and out of that 60 technologies were disseminated, 36 technologies were commercialized, 10 technologies were patented and 30368 persons were trained under various training pro-grammes organized by R&D institutes. While in 2012-13, 38 new Research projects have been initiated and 22 research projects were concluded till March 2013 resulting in dissemination of 7 viable technologies, out of that 3 have been filed for patenting.

Thus technological interventions have improved the quantity as well as the quality of sericultural production, encouraging more people to adopt sericulture as a profitable business. To-day the Sericulture industry provides employment to approximately 7.65 million persons in rural and semi-ur-ban areas in India.

The information in the above article contains excerpts from a report brought out by the Central Silk Board (CSB) on the performance of the Indian Silk industry in December 2013 ■

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ENVIRONMENT & BIORESOURCES

The Environment and Bioresourc-es sector does not offer “classi-cal” career opportunities as some

of the other sectors like the BioPharma, BioAgri. Nevertheless, it offers students niche opportunities for nurturing a career in research and development and taking a research idea to the finished product stage with their vision.

Environmental biotechnology is an evolving field and with the current thrust on environment consciousness, this field is coming in the limelight. For students of biotechnology and allied streams there are many defined oppor-tunities in the areas of renewable energy and sustainable transport; waste water management and solid waste manage-ment; and biodiversity conservation and its sustainable utilization.

Renewable ener-gy and sustainable transportToday biofuels is a much talked about subject, which is probably one of the most well-known innovations of bio-technology. Biofuels are fuel manu-factured from plant materials such as sugarcane molasses, jatropha and other oil seed plants. There are also efforts to develop fuels from algae and animal waste. The biofuels reduce the need for standard petroleum-based fuels and de-crease the carbon emissions responsible for climate change.

India boosts of a National Biofuel Policy aiming at the production of bio-fuels and a National Bio-diesel Board to promote and finance organizations active in cultivating and processing oilseed for bio-diesel production. In In-dia there are about 400 species of trees bearing non-edible oilseeds suitable

of further research for production of bio-fuels. The Indian strategic approach has been to utilize waste and degraded forest and non-forest lands for cultivat-ing nonedible oilseeds for production of bio-diesel. The aim is to achieve technologies based on non-food feed stocks and avoiding the issue of food vs. fuel security.

• Emerging technologies for second generation bio-fuels including conver-sion of ligno-cellulosic materials to eth-anol such as crop residues (such as the stalks of wheat and corn) and special biomass crops, forest waste, biomass to liquid fuel, bio-refineries• Emerging technologies for third gen-eration biofuels such as algae• Technologies for end-use applications like development of engines for trans-portation sector

These priority areas offer pointers to students in the life sciences and bio-engineering arena to explore R&D and processing opportunities in this sector.

Incidentally, biofuels also offers en-trepreneurial opportunities as has been the case with Sea6 Energy, a Bangalore based start-up Company, which is de-veloping a technology to grow and con-vert seaweeds into biofuel. The compa-ny was started by a group of graduates and researchers from IIT Madras, who have been working together on syn-thetic biology and micro-algal biofuels for more than 2 years and understood the inherent advantages of seaweeds and macro-algae. They founded Sea6 Energy to create a renewable alternative to fossil fuel. The young entrepreneurs are mentored by senior biotechnology industry professionals and the company was awarded “The Emerging Company of the Year” at Bangalore Bio 2012.

The DBT is also running an Energy Bioscience Program under which the Department has established a network of more than 60 universities, research institutes and industry in close partnership, which are working to realize the goals set in National Biofuel Mission. Under the program, technolo-gies for bioethanol and biodiesel are be-ing scaled up whereas technologies for bio-butanol and bio-hydrogen produc-

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There is scope for R&D and scaling up of technologies in all segments in-cluding feedstock production, bio-fuels processing and end-use applications. The priority areas in the R&D policy on biofuels have been defined as: • Bio-fuel production through culti-vation of non-edible oil seeds on waste lands• Advanced conversion technologies for first generation of biofuels (sugar, starch, vegetable oil, or animal fats)

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tion are readyfor scale up studies. Three Bioenergy Centers have been set up in the country specifically to strengthen the research base in the biofuel area and to promote the translation of processes and technologies from research to scale up and commercialization.

The Bioenergy Centres are:

DBT-ICT (Institute of Chemical Technology) Centre for Energy Biosciences focuses on developing a cost effective technology for bio-ethanol production from any given biomass, developing a bio-refinery approach for selected biomass and other biofuel technologies such as bio-diesel, bio-hydrogen and bio-meth-ane.

DBT-IOC (Indian Oil Corpora-tion) Centre for Advanced Bioenergy Research works on ligno-cellulosic based biofuels, algal research and gas fermentation.

DBT-ICGEB (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Bio-technology) Centre for Advanced Bioenergy Research was set up to strengthen the existing capacity in synthetic biology and to promote the cutting edge research in biofuel area.

Besides the DBT initiative, some of the other institutions working on the development of biodiesel are the Aditya Biotech Research Center in Raipur, Indira Gandhi Agricultural Universities, Raipur, Baba Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai, National Afforestation and Eco-development Board (NAEB) of the Ministry of Environment and Forest, National Oilseed and Vegetable Oil development Board (NOVOD), Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute in Bhavnagar.

In addition, there are institutions focussing on biomass research like the Sardar Patel Renewable Energy Re-search Institute (SPRERI), The National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI). A few other organizations involved in biofuel research are Bharat Renewable Energy Ltd. (BREL); Praj Industries,

which provides technology platforms to the stakeholders in the biofuel industry; Centre for Conservation and Utilization of Blue Green Algae, IARI, Delhi; Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur where algae-strains for biobutanol pro-duction are being cultivated; National Institute of Ocean Technology; and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) where the Energy-Environment Tech-nology Development (EETD) Division focuses on products and services based on renewable energy technologies and resource efficiency.

waste water treatmentBioremediation is the use of microbes such as bacteria to clean and neutralize hazardous waste. To contain the pollu-tion from industrial effluents, bioreme-diation strategies are increasingly being used. First the contaminated land and water sites are assessed and then clean-up strategies are designed which put microbes to work. This is an area which required the services of biotechnolo-gists and researchers from other allied areas like microbiology, biochemistry, etc. Industrial effluents, especially for paper and pulp industry, electroplating, distil, tannery, dye and refineries are among the main industries where efflu-ent treatment is required. The related area of biodegradation of spilled oils, pesticides, biomass like cellulose/pectin, xenobiotics and plastics also offers R&D opportunities to students.

Some of the prominent institutions working in this field are: National Environmental Engineering Researches Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur, which has developed projects for microbial desul-phurisation of fossil fuel, detection of pathogens in drinking water, biosurfac-tants from wastes through microorgan-ism, bioscrubbers for removal of odours from industrial emission through microbial cultures; Center for Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI) which has standardized technology

for degradation of starch factory waste water; Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR) in Lucknow which has developed protocols for degradation of pesticides; Sarder Patel University in Anand, Gujarat which has developed procedures for bio-degradation of dye and textile industry. The university has also invented a pilot scale technology for effluent treatment.

TERI is another institution active in this area which has undertaken projects with oil zapper technology for oil treatment in various refineries in the country. Its Energy-Environment Technology Development (EETD) Division has undertaken projects on biodegradable plastics and composites and cost-effective ash filters for sugar cane juice clarification and wastewater treatment.

Apart from effluent treatment, restoration of degraded lands especially in mining intensive areas offers work opportunities to students. In addition, students with a strong biosciences base can also foray in the development of biosensors required for detection of pollutants, especially residues of pesticides. Like the Visva Bharti Univer-sity, Shantiniketan, West Bengal, has developed technology for biosensors for detection of pesticides residue to detect organophospates, like carbonate residue and metacide.

Another developing area of interest is Industrial biotechnology or ‘White Biotechnology’, sometimes also referred to as ‘Green Chemistry’. This is a grow-ing field that seeks to replace hazardous chemical processes and products used in science and industry with plant-based materials, enzymes and bacteria. Some Indian companies operating in this area are Novozymes India, Advanced Enzymes, Rossari Biotech, Maps (India) Titin Biotech, Lumis, Anthem, etc.

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with the growing population and rapid developmental activities across the globe. Modern sciences like biotechnol-ogy are increasingly being used for the conservation, evaluation, and utilization of biodiversity. Though an offbeat career choice, students with an inclination towards R&D have a good scope in the area of bio-diversity conservation and its utilization for developing commer-cially important products.

To better manage the bioresources, The National Bioresource Development Board (NBDB) was set up in 1999 under DBT to evolve a broad policy framework for R&D for sustainable utilization of bioresources. Under the NBDB various programs are being pur-sued on inventorisation and character-ization, prospecting of bioresources for novel genes and gene products, biomol-ecules and compounds and technology development of value added products from natural resources.

An interesting on-going projectunder the Board is the National Mission program on microbial prospecting

which involved partnership of 9 nation-al institutes and universities along with Piramal Life Sciences Ltd., (PLSL) as an Industry Partner in a unique public-pri-vate partnership model. This program has contributed to the collection of microbes from different biodiversi-ty from all over India (the Western Ghats, North East, mangrove, marine environment, polluted sites etc.). The largest collection of microbial cultures (nearly 2,50,000) was screened for four different therapeutic targets. And about 1000 cultures shall be taken in the next phase of the program for identification of novel drug scaffolds.

Some other research activities under the Board include: Microbial prospecting for industrially import-ant compounds; Prospecting of other natural resources – fungi, lichens, etc; Chemoprospecting for high value phytochemicals from Seabuckthorn which is a rich source of antioxidants and finds immense use in nutaceutical and cosmaceuticals; Prospecting and product development of non-timber

forest product- Gums, resins, tannins, mucilage, etc.

Another important area of study is the conservation and sustainable utilization of medicinal plants. India is home to around 6000-7000 species of medicinal plants of which about 960 species are estimated to be in trade. Currently the Indian medicinal plants and their products account of exports in the range of Rs 10 billion, while the domestic trade of the AYUSH (Ayurve-da, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) industry is of the order of Rs 80-90 billion. The mandate of conservation and cultivation along with coordination of all matters related to medicinal plants rests with the Na-tional Medicinal Plant Board (NMPB), Department of AYUSH, under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The significant areas of research in medicinal and aromatic plants are their conservation, production of secondary metabolites and development of drugs from plant sources/metabolites ■


Marine Biotechnology and AquacultureIndia has a long coast line of about 8000 km. Using bio-technology tools and techniques the vast marine resource are being explored for new foods, drugs, nutraceuticals, cosmaceuticals and energy sources. The application of ma-rine biotechnology in human health is an expanding area as the pharma companies are on a lookout for new drug targets. Bioactive molecules from marine systems are being studied for antibacterial, antiviral and anticancer agents. Exploration of marine enzymes is another growing area of research and development. Formulation of health supple-ments, probiotics, and novel foods items can be envisaged using marine bioresources. Development of biomaterials, bio-adhesives, bio-flocculent, bio-surfactants, medi-cal implants, biopolymers, bio-plastics, novel enzymes, biosensors from marine sources offer interesting areas of research. Students with a sound base in marine biotechnol-ogy and aquaculture can use their expertise to pursue R&D in these areas and develop novel products.

In addition, to the development of products directly affecting human health and nutrition, biotech tools and

techniques can be used to improve aquaculture production and productivity. Some areas of focused biotech applica-tions include:

Species characterization: Using biotechnology molecu-lar markers to discriminate individuals, populations, stocks and sister species of commercially important and endan-gered species

Health: Health of cultured organisms and the disease im-pact; Developing disease diagnostics like oligonucleotide probe for monitoring vibrio counts in hatcheries; Vaccine development for aquaculture.

Advanced rearing techniques: Advanced breeding and farming techniques for aquaculture. For example using bacteriophage therapy in improvement of shrimp larvae as an alternative to antibiotics in aquaculture

Nutrition: Invention of new feedstock; Development of alternate fish feed supplements and probiotics for improv-ing fish health and its production

Thus there are many opportunities for students in the research sector (in the various public funded research institutes and National Centres of Excellence) to pursue an active career as a marine biologist/scientist.

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important to qualify if one has to take up IPR as a profession. There are web-based free courses available such as WIPO which students can make use of, while, NALSAR is paid corresponding course.

PK: With the increasing awareness about patents, currently most courses have a dedicated subject for acquainting students with the regulatory issues and IPR. Thereafter, students can pursue various diploma courses in IPR, or can even pursue full time LLB. Students can also appear for patent agent exam-ination conducted by patent office under the ministry of Commerce and Industry.

Q.What are the different job roles available in the segment?

NP: IP Analysts, Patent Associate, Patent Analyst for fresher

PK: Different job roles include techni-cal and legal consultants in various com-panies. These days, law firms also prefer to hire subject matter experts depending upon the needs of their clients. Once sufficient experience is gained, one can also practice as independent consultant providing services to various companies and law firms.

Q. What are the key skill sets that a perspective employer looks for in a potential employee?

NP: Broadly the students should pos-sess analytical ability, diligence to search various free patent databases, patent

Q.What are the opportunities for a student with Biosciences/Biotech do-main knowledge in the current Law industry?

NP: Student can explore the Intellec-tual Property Rights (IPR) field, specif-ically Patents, where they can make use of their domain knowledge along with Patent Law in order to get into Biotech/Pharma Intellectual Property (IP) niche sector. This may be an in-house IP de-partment of an R&D organization or an Independent law firm. Various options are available wherein student can explore their interests into areas such as patent analytics, patent search, patent portfolio, patent drafting, patent prosecution, pat-ent infringement, opinion and freedom to operate among others.

PK: With the recent regulatory de-velopments in life science sector, legal professionals with relevant technical background are always in demand. Legal issues pertaining to new plant variet-ies, biodiversity, genetically modified products, and the like, require expertise combining both legal and technical skills, and hence, there exist numerous opportunities for students with Biosci-ences/Biotech domain knowledge.

Q.What additional courses/exams does a candidate need to clear to be-come suitable /eligible for this domain?

NP: The Indian Patent office conducts patent agent exam every year which is

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reading-understanding, interpretation of claims of patent specification, patent drafting skills and knowledge of The Indian Patent Act.

PK: Apart from thorough understand-ing of technical subject matter and rel-evant laws, the employers always prefer candidates who possess skills to apply their knowledge to real life issues.

Q.What should be the areas of focus/special attention for a student during his higher studies?

NP: If a student is aspiring to be a part of the challenging IP field, he/she should focus on understanding the Pat-ent Law and Patent Drafting (read max-imum patent specification from various domains using free patent databases available on internet, like the Google patents). Awareness about these two shall help to strengthen and broaden the overall perspective of the candidate. A sound knowledge of patent laws and patent drafting will also facilitate the students in clearing the Indian Patent Agent Exam.

Q. Your advice to career aspirants in this sector

NP: One has to always keep abreast of latest Amendments in Patent Laws. Learning is constant an on-going pro-cess in the IP sector, therefore students should read maximum patent specifica-tion and patent case laws. Be open and

Intellectual property rights have assumed increased importance in the biosciences realm over the past two decades. The changes in biotechnology and intellectual property protection that have occurred since the eighties have made private enterprise possible in many broad research areas. Today IP is treated as a separate subject of study in many course programs. This field offers a niche career opportunity for life sciences students inclined towards legal matters.

We bring to you in depth insights of two Life Sciences professionals turned legal experts, Nilesh S Pandit (NP), Manager, Corporate IPR Group, TCS, Pune and Prity Khastgir(PK), Patent Lawyer and expert, at Tech Corp Legal LLP, New Delhi on making a career in the IP segment. Both of them have successfully migrated into the IPR arena.

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Recent trends in the field of Intel-lectual Property (IP) are encour-aging to say the least. Data shows

a significant increase in the number of filings in each category of IP, especially in Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks.

There have been a number of changes in the Indian IP Law during the past one decade. India being a WTO/TRIPS signa-tory was under International obligation to comply with the standards set by the Trea-ty and in this direction, made substantive amendments to its Patent Law. Effective January 1, 2005, a transition from a process patent regime to a full-fledged product patent regime took place which has significantly boosted innovation.

More and more Indian companies are trying to turn innovators and recent industry surveys reinforce the same. Quantum jump in R&D costs with an associated jump in investment is required for putting a new technology in the mar-ket place. Hence the need to protect the knowledge from unlawful use has become expedient. The product patent regime will encourage both the Indian and the


liberal to widen the scope of your ability and learn beyond your domain knowledge. This is the real key to sustain in this sector.

PK: Students should focus on various topics of their curriculum with a broad approach that can be related to industry trends and news. One should always keep himself abreast with latest developments rather than focussing too much on academics. Another preferred approach should be to keep regular track of happenings in developed nations like US so that getting knowledge of latest trends becomes an asset ■

NILESh S PANDITManager for Corporate IPR Group, TCS, Pune

PRITY KhASTgIRPatent Lawyer and expert, Tech Corp Legal LLP, New Delhi

Nilesh S Pandit is responsible for In-House IP Management for Patents, Invention Mining, Patent Valuation, Patent Portfolio, Patent Usage, Solution Envisioning, Office Actions, IP Com-munity development within organization and IP awareness, FTO Search. He has close to 14 years of professional experience having Master’s Degree in Microbiology and a degree in Law (LLB). He is an Indian Patent Attorney and qualified the Indian Patent Agent exam in 2004; he has worked at reputed IP Law firms and managed In-house IP at Corporate Level.

Prity Khastgir is a Biotech and Pharmaceutical Indian Patent Attorney at Tech Corp Legal LLP, an Indian Intellectual Prop-erty law firm based in New Delhi. She also serves as Director at Tech Corp International Consultants Pte. Ltd. (Singapore), wherein she advises clients regarding freedom to operate (FTO) studies for their new product or service and search for possible foreign IP rights that could be infringed. With her multi-juris-dictional experience, she gives her clients insights in protect-ing and enforcing their intellectual property rights in several countries.

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multinational companies to invest more in Research & Development and patent activities out of India.

In last few years, careers in IPR (espe-cially patent law) have caught the atten-tion of a growing number of scientists. An increase in patent related issues, such as, Patent Oppositions and Litigations, have led to a substantial need, among pharma-ceutical and biotechnology companies, for individuals with strong educational back-ground in the life sciences and having key patent skills such as searching, drafting, filing, prosecution and other pre and post grant issues. Today, many such compa-nies, engaged in research-driven activities, are employing patent professionals with increasing frequency to patent the out-come of their research activities.

In India, there are two types of profes-sionals who can file and prosecute patents before the Indian Patent Office (IPO). The first, a “patent agent,” registered with the IPO. The second, a “patent lawyer” or “patent attorney”, has, in addition, earned a law degree and passed a bar exam, which allows him / her to repre-

sent clients in the courts. To become a patent agent you must possess a science / technical degree and pass the patent agent exam conducted by the IPO. In the event, that you possess a science / technical degree and have not passed the patent agent exam, you can still opt for a career in patent law and perform key tasks such as, searching, drafting of patent applica-tions, drafting response to office actions, etc. You will be able to file and prosecute patents either after you clear the patent agent exam and / or earn a law degree from a recognized university. As a patent professional your job is to meet clients to learn about their inventions and to clearly describe in writing how to make and use an invention, laying down claims for what makes it “novel” and “inventive” as set out in the Patent Act of the jurisdiction where you propose to file the patent application. This is not an easy task and requires a thorough understanding of science, the relevant patent laws and good writing and communication skills.

Before you begin to draft a patent application, you may be asked to assess

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the patentability of the subject invention, which involves identifying the rele-vant prior art by researching the patent literature, technical (patents owned by other companies) and scientific literature (published papers, articles, etc.). Based on this information retrieved, you will advice the client on whether the subject inven-tion is useful, novel and nonobvious in light of the relevant prior art. The relevant prior art is also used while drafting the patent claims, i.e., by defining the scope of the invention in light of what is already known in the field. In addition to patent drafting, patent agent / associate are also involved in “prosecuting” pending patent applications. Prosecuting patent applica-tions involves drafting response to several examination reports issued by the Patent Office rejecting the patent application. The drafting of response may involve narrowing the patent claims in order to distinguish the subject invention from the prior art identified by the Patent Examin-er or provide arguments to emphasize and illustrate the patentability of the subject invention. The objective is to convince the Patent Examiner (at the Patent Office) that the subject invention is patentable. Here too, the knowledge of relevant sci-ences, patent law and good writing skills are essential.

Similar to patent agents, a patent attorney prepares, file and prosecute patent applications. In addition, a patent attorney / lawyer deals in enforcement of issued patents through litigation. For example, during the development of a new drug, the patent attorney may be involved to study the patents owned by other parties and advises the client regarding the scope and validity of these patents so that the client’s drug develop-ment work avoids infringing on valid patents of all other parties. Patent attor-neys, in addition to the law degree, must have the technical background to under-stand the inventions they are supporting.

As a patent professional you can find job opportunities in many settings, not just at law firms. Patent professionals work in corporate, knowledge process outsourcing companies, IP law firms,

state and central governments (including Indian Patent Office), private institutes, and research organizations. Working with a company, you are likely to specialize, as most companies are focused on a narrow area of science (i.e., therapeutic mono-clonal antibodies). The objective to work with a company is to protect and expand the intellectual property assets of the company by filing new patent applications and protecting the existing ones.

As a patent professional working at a K/LPO, you will be involved in services related to searching, mining, analyzing, and managing patents and patent-re-lated information for corporations and attorney firms around the world. Patent related off-shoring services to India have increased in recent years and companies are always looking to hire professionals with strong technical and patent skills.

IP Law Firms are an attractive option for both fresh and experienced technical professionals. People having advanced degrees in their core technical areas are often picked up by the Law Firms and offered lucrative jobs. These Law firms use a mix of lawyers and technical people to handle contentious and non-con-tentious cases before the Indian Patent Office and tribunals such as the Intellec-tual Property Appellate Board (IPAB). Cracking the Indian Patent Agent Exam is a must for only a Registered Patent Agent can appear before the Patent Office. Students who take professional help in equipping themselves with knowledge in Indian Patent Law as well as the Patent Cooperation Treaty definitely stand a bet-ter chance of qualifying the exam. Patent professionals without law degrees often assist patent lawyers in preparing a case, but only patent lawyers can represent a client in court.

On the other hand, as an Examiner at the Patent Office, you are involved in examining patent applications, under-standing the technology described in the applications, and assess the state of the art (i.e., the science) to determine whether the proposed invention is new and non-obvious. As a Patent Examiner, you may be involved in evaluating a wide range of

technology / patent application, but you will still have a specialty. You can find jobs with institutions, such as a university or a research organization (say, CSIR). Here, you may get to work with a wider range of technologies, with patentable ideas emerging from disciplines as far apart as, say, mechanical and biotechnology. You may also get to evaluate the potential of research outcome and help identify companies that might be interested in licensing the technology.

The patent law field has numerous opportunities, and people with specific expertise have opportunities to move up. Future trends in field of patent law will require skills to monetize patents and help clients in buying, selling, licensing, cross licensing of patents. This is a common method for revenue generation from a patent portfolio that companies are pur-suing at a growing rate. In such situations, patent professionals will be involved in negotiation of the terms and drafting of agreements.Most scientists who become patent professionals are attracted by the prospect of staying close to cutting-edge science without being tied to the bench or to one particular project. Making the decision to switch to a career in patent law requires weighing and balancing many factors. But if you have the appropriate skills and enjoy analyzing and communi-cating about scientific innovations, patent law could be your ideal career ■

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Atulya Nath is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 23 years of industry experi-ence. He is currently the CEO of Global Institute of Intellectual Property (GIIP), one of India’s leading IP training insti-tute with focus to train engineers and scientists for a career in patent law.

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The current biopharma and research space is replete with opportunities for students with

biosciences domain knowledge. Most of the topics/subjects taught in the

colleges can evolve into potential ca-reer opportunities like: Evaluation and identification of viruses and antiviral agents; Upstream and downstream processing of biological entities; Char-

acterisation of proteins to determine its biosimilarity/purity/safety; Charac-terisation of cell lines and their evalu-ation; etc …I can go on with a long list of opportunities and though these top-

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ics are covered to some extent in most syllabi, but unfortunately the focus and depth is lacking. The academics, in an attempt to be all inclusive, make the syllabi so exhaustive that detail and its relevance in terms of application is lacking. The students in turn are car-ried away with the bandwagon dreams and not equipping themselves with ground realities.

Interview anyone and the typical responses received from students are that they wish to do R&D /cloning/genetic engineering/genomics and that their expected salary should be in the range of twenty to forty thousand per month. But somewhere along the line they are lost and a misguided lot who end up frustrated or as dropouts from biology turning to IT, management, etc.

Their long term goals, commitment and inner values of integrity are being diluted in an environment of materi-alism. Education, methodologies and policies need to be addressed. The teachers are unwilling to give their whole and soul to resource develop-ment. Parents and students too are in a never ending race giving little attention to fundamental knowledge as much as to personality development.

The Government on its part has initiated many supportive programs. However returns on these programs are yet to be witnessed. Sadly, teaching at any level is the last profession/job one aims for. Most of those who are in it are there due to lack of alternatives. It is more a job and not a profession with inner consciousness to be the ar-chitects of human resource. This needs serious rethinking/radical changes in approach. The faculty at teaching insti-tutions are lured to obtaining research grants from DBT/CSIR and the like, where the weightage is on Innovation. How does Innovation come? In an anx-iety to write for grants, teaching goes for a toss. The students too look at the PG programs as stop gap arrangement while preparing for so called eligibility tests to seek admission overseas. They

are asked to memorise facts and fig-ures very early on in school. Few of the teachers at school are there to motivate them or instil values or curiosity. This is because they are there, as they did not make it elsewhere and economic needs drive them, not the thirst to share the marvel of science. Students in turn are those who did not make it to medicine. Even most of those who enter the medical stream are there not because of a genuine interest or deep seated aspirations but more as a status symbol and end up as mass money making machines. This again is a con-sequence of misplaced societal values where we all together are responsible for this cycle of events leading to over-all frustration among students. The poor (not in monetary terms) students are rushed through so many things that they come out as misfits lacking any holistic perspectives.

There is no emphasis on teaching in terms of approach to basic technol-ogies, so much so, that more than 90 percent of the students coming out with masters in any allied field of life sciences are not confident. They, in fact, need to be taught the basics like how to make molar solutions, how convert milligrams to nanograms or to dilute expensive biological material or chemical moieties to femoto moles. The students do not even know simple principles of colorimetry/fluorescence etc. In today’s environment of using extremely small volumes and weights they are simply unemployable. They talk of cloning and genetic engineering but know nothing of what next or how to go about even to be employable in a diagnostic lab, where they fare no bet-ter than the DMLTs. Even for routine ELISA’s, they cannot interpret the final read outs.

To add fuel to fire, the work force is tilted more towards the female gender.A girl is twenty two years by the time she has done her masters and from the family perspective the hunt for a suitable groom starts. Let us say with all the givens, a proactive thinking

organisation recruits and trains them (giving due credit that they are quick learners), and instils a sense of identity in them. The girls succumb to familial and societal pressures, get married and go where their husbands are. So lo behold, the organization is back to square one. This cycle repeats itself a few times and it takes no time for even the proactive institution /person to be cautious, as once bitten twice shy.

To summarise within the givens my humble suggestion to the students is:Learn your basics well; Aspire being aware of your limitation; Address your ability before you aspire for your returns. It is easy to get away blaming everything around you for your inad-equacies. But it is your life, so learn you must, even if it has to be on your own and in the current googling world you can learn many things on the web So dream and design your dream with your own expertise ■

Prof Gita Sharma is currently engaged in enabling affordable diagnostics and molecular genetics to the general public. With over 40 years of teaching and research experience, Prof Sharma has had successful work stints in the indus-try at Zydus Research Centre, Magene LifeSciences, Claris LifeSciences and Xceleris Genomics lab.

PROF gITA ShARMAResearch Director Tapadia Diagnostics at Hyderabad

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There are no short cuts in science so there cannot be any short cuts and easy gains in career path of

any one who wishes to reach the top of his/her profession. The one who denies hardships can never achieve the heights in his/her profession. The same rule ap-plies to a career path in biotechnology.

It is important to have rational thinking while looking at development of a career in the biotechnology are-na. In the advanced dynamic world of science and technology it is important to have the minimum qualification, which is PhD degree, in biotechnology or relat-ed subject to make entry in the competi-tive professional world of biotechnology. In addition to this, to top up, special-ized training is needed in the field in which one decides to pursue a career. For example if someone is interested in business then a degree in business administration will be helpful. Those who wish to pursue a career in intellec-tual property management then training in this field is required. Similarly if there is inclination towards making a career in clinical research, then knowledge and experience in this field is necessary. Those who wish to go in the field of bio-pharmaceutical production, quality assurance, quality control, pre-clinical studies or regulatory affairs; they need to have good training and hands on experience in the respective area. Other

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biotechnology fields will have their own requirements of training in their own specialized areas.

Experiences have shown that parents and students expect job opportunities in biotechnology immediately after BSc and MSc and very few students are in-clined towards pursuing higher studies such as PhD. Here parents as well as students are required to understand that the jobs which will be available immedi-ately after graduation or post graduation may not lead in future to the top level positions. The professional growth may stop at basic level position and at that time it may be very difficult to consider going back to further higher studies.

It is known to all that the syllabus that has been taught to biotechnology students in the most of the universities is inclined more towards development of students for research purpose. When student try to opt for job placements in the corporate world then they are lost in between the gap of what they have learnt in the university and the skill set that is required by industry and the corporate world. The biggest challenge in teaching syllabus that can suit the requirement of biotechnology industry is the scarce availability of skilled faculty.

If the industry actively comes for-ward in collaboration with universities to generate expert human resource that suits the skill sets required (by the

industry) then this gap could be filled. This requires involvement of the industry along with the university, right from designing syllabus, selec-tion of eligible students for the course, providing industry experts as visiting faculty, summer training, short term projects, internships, dissertations, thesis work, etc.

The Biotechnology industry is tech-nocratic so there should be scope in the universities to deign and execute tailor crafted courses as per the requirements of super specialized skilled areas of the industry to generate techno-oriented, technocratic super specialized pool of young biotechnologists ■

DR. SMITA SINghANIACEO, SMIBIO Services, Pune and Ex-Director, Symbiosis School of Biomedical Sciences, Symbiosis International University, Pune


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Outstanding PerformersDR. SUMAN gOvILAdviser, HRD Division,Department of Biotechnology

Realizing the importance of trained manpower for meaningful R&D and

production activities in the area of biotechnology, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) initiated an integrated human resource development program way back in 1985-86 comprising of post graduate teaching program in biotechnology, fellowships for doctoral and post doctoral research and short term training courses for upgradation of skills of mid-career scientists in research institutions and faculty engaged in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. In specialized areas lacking indigenous expertise, overseas associateships to train our scientists in leading overseas laboratories are also being provided.

The DBT started MSc teaching program in biotechnology in 6 universities in 1985-86 and the

programs have been expanded to cover 70 universities keeping in mind requirement for specialized manpower e.g. agricultural, medical, pharma, marine, environmental, industrial biotechnology and regional aspirations. These universities were selected on the basis of in-house expertise, infrastructural facilities and proximity to institutions engaged in biotechnology research. The Department provided one time non-recurring grant for purchase of equipment, liberal recurring grants for consumables, books and journals, summer/winter training, travel etc. To ensure quality, students for DBT supported teaching program are selected through common entrance test conducted by JNU on all India basis or IIT-JAM or written test conducted by university. All selected students are offered studentships. Initially, few faculty positions were also supported by the department for a plan period based on undertaking from State

Government/Controlling Ministry to take over the faculty positions once the DBT support comes to an end. Creation of faculty positions, selection of quality students and provision of liberal recurring grants to provide practical training to MSc students improved teaching and research in biotechnology and allied life science fields. The Department has tried to keep track of first placement of students coming out of these teaching programs. Students are doing extremely well in national competitive tests for JRF by CSIR-UGC, DBT, and ICMR. Placement analysis shows 50-70 percent students take up PhD in leading national laboratories like IISc, NCBS, TIFR, NII, NCCS etc. 12-15 percent students take up jobs in industry, 10-12 percent students pursue PhD in prestigious overseas laboratories. Several of these students have become faculty members in universities and research institutions and have attained senior positions in biotech industry in the country. It was felt that showcasing profiles of some of the outstanding performers would serve as role models for young students in the field of biotechnology and would inspire them to achieve greater heights. To name a few Dr. Sanjeev Galande, a student of M.Sc. Biotechnology from Pune University has been awarded prestigious National Bioscientist Award by DBT, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award by CSIR in 2010 and is senior scientist at NCCS, Pune, presently on deputation to IISER, Pune.

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Several post doctoral studentsunder DBT-RA program are also occupying senior faculty positions in universities and research institutions (Prof. Anand K. Kondapi at University of Hyderabad, Prof. Prabhjeet Singh, GNDU, Amritsar, Dr. R. Narayanan, IISC, Bangalore) and biotech indus-tries (Dr. S. Thippeswamy, CMD, Dr. Swamy’s Lab Pvt. Ltd., Dharwad).

It is expected that the students and faculty members whose contributions have not been included in this article would also provide their details so that contributions made by DBT in creating manpower in biotechnology could be substantiated for benefit of present and future students and faculty members. The leaders could also play the role of mentors and hand hold young students in shaping their career. Students could also form alumni networks which could also update employment and training opportunities.

Dr. Rajesh Gokhale, a M.Sc. Biotechnology student from IIT, Mumbai is Director, IGIB, Delhi. Dr. Rajeev Soni, a M.Sc. Biotech student from JNU, New Delhi is Senior Manager, R&D at Novozymes in Bangalore..

The examples are innumerable. However, efforts to document these success stories have not been made. Request from Ms. Rolly Dureha involved in preparation of Biotech Career Ready Reckoner supported by DBT triggered the reaction and DBT requested coordinators to provide contact details of achievers which were followed up by interviews with candidates. The objective is to create a platform to highlight the achievements of some of the students so that others would be inspired. The cases covered in this article are on the basis of inputs received from the coordinators of DBT supported teaching programs and it is

only an illustrative list. Similarly, faculty members involved

in DBT supported teaching programs are actively associated in different policy decisions of DBT through participation in Task Forces of DBT, have received extra-mural funding on competitive basis and have risen to leadership positions such as VCs of universities, Directors of research institutions etc. As an example, Prof. Pramod Tandon, ex-VC, NEHU, Prof. D. Deobagkar, ex-VC, Goa University, Prof. A.S. Kolaskar, ex-VC, University of Pune, Prof. K.C. Upadhyaya, ex-VC, MS University, Baroda, Dr. Rakesh Bhatnagar, ex-VC, Kumaon University, Nanital, Prof. Jairup Singh, ex-VC, GNDU, Amritsar, Prof. W.N. Gade, VC, University of Pune, Dr. B.K. Konwar, VC, Nagaland University have all been involved with teaching programs and policy making in the field of biotechnology in the country.

The Biotech Mentors

Many members of the teaching faculty associated with the DBT supported PG teaching programs have not only mentored students, guided research programs, added value to the course curriculum but have also risen to senior positions in many prominent Indian universities across the country with their vision and rich experience. A snap shot of some of them.

PROF DILEEP N. DEOBAgKAREx-Vice Chancellor, Goa University

An academician par excellence, Prof Dileep N. Deobagkar is the ex-Vice Chancellor of Goa University. Prior to joining Goa University, he was Profes-sor of Molecular Biology and Director of Institute of Bioinformatics and Bio-

technology, University of Pune, where he played a major role in the establish-ment of the Bioinformatics institute. In addition, Prof. Deobagkar also worked as Head of the Departments of Zoology, Microbiology, Biotechnology and Director of Bioinformatics Center at the Pune University. He completed graduate and post-graduate degree courses with distinction and first rank from Shivaji University, carried out doctoral research (Ph.D.) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

With the basic training of research in molecular biology received at IISc, Bangalore, he has worked in the Inter-national research centres of repute such as the National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

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ment for rare and high value biological products particularly ophalmic grade hyluronic acid which has been commer-cialized. At the University of Pune he was Professor of Biotechnology before taking over as Vice-Chancellor. As Vice-Chancellor he has brought in automation in governance particularly in examinations, established collabo-rations with high ranking Universities abroad, given boost to the research initiatives, launched many students - centric schemes and schemes for attracting talents at faculty level etc.

DR RAKESh BhATNAgARDean, School of Biotechnology, JNU

A top notch researcher, Prof Rakesh Bhatnagar has been working in the field of Anthrax for the past 20 years. He has to his credit the development of genetically engineered vaccine against anthrax. The technology of recombinant anthrax vaccine has been transferred to Panacea Biotec Ltd and the vaccine has successfully undergone Phase I and Phase II human clinical trials.The DNA vaccine against Rabies has been developed in his laboratory. Prof Bhatnagar joined the prestigious Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU) in 1989 and has been associated with the institution in various capacities. Currently he is the Dean, School of Biotechnology at JNU. Prof Bhatnagar did PhD in Biochemistry from Na-tional Sugar Institute in Kanpur, post which he gained research experience in overseas institutions like Freiburg Uni-versity, Germany; CHU, Caen, France; NIH, USAMRIID among others. With

he introduced sweeping reforms in university governance, financial man-agement, and quality management. He has published more than fifty research papers in national and international peer reviewed journals.

In addition, Prof Kolaskar has served as the Director of Bioinformat-ics, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Virginia, USA, where he in-troduced the culture of research in the non-profit service organization such as ATCC. He is the formerAdvisor to the National Knowledge Commission of India instituted by the Prime Minister of India and Managing Director DSK Global Education and Research Pvt Ltd, which introduced for the first time in India, a new and novel model of higher education that includes major training programs in animation, gaming and industrial design offered in collabora-tion with Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Valenciennes, France.

PROF wASUDEO N. gADEVice Chancellor, University of Pune

Dr Wasudeo Namdeo Gade is the cur-rent Vice Chancellor of the University of Pune. Prior to this, he was the Di-rector, Board of Colleges and University Development. Dr Gade did his BSc in Biology from Nagpur University and later did his MSc (Life Sciences), MPhil and PhD in Life Sciences from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Del-hi. He continued his research in France and Sweden. Before joining University of Pune, he served as a Scientist at Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR, New Delhi) for 20 years. He was involved in technology develop-

group at the Yale University, USA and the Freie University, Berlin, Germany. There are over 60 research papers to his credit which are published in National and International refereed journals.Right from the advent of biotechnology discipline at the Depart-ment of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, Prof Deobagkar has been a member of various committees at the DST, CSIR, UGC and also DBT where the plans for National policies and re-search in modern biology and biotech-nology were developed.

PROF AShOK S. KOLASKAR Ex-Vice Chancellor, University of Pune

Prof. Ashok S Kolaskar has a career of over 30 years marked by numerous accomplishments in bioinformatics research, teaching, mentoring and managing large academic institutions with outstanding success acknowledged by numerous national and international awards, fellowships and recognitions.He is one of the first few scientists in the world to pursue research in bioinfor-matics and pioneered the establishment of the network of Distributed Informa-tion Centers (DICs) in India in the late 80s to initiate and promote bioinfor-matics research in India. Prof Kolaskar has been a Professor of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at Pune Univer-sity since 1986 and has been teaching postgraduate programs and mentoring Ph.D and M.Phil students for the past 28 years at various universities globally. In 1988 he founded the Bioinformatics Center at the Pune University. Prof Ko-laskar served as the Vice Chancellor of Pune University during 2001-06, where

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over 123 research publications to his credit, he is also a reviewer of many international journals like Infection and Immunity, FASEB Journal, Vaccine, Molecular Immunology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, etc.

DR KC UPADhYAYAAdvisor, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Noida

An able administrator and academician, Dr Kailash Upadhyaya was among the first in India to have sequenced two plant genes in late eighties. Currently he is an Advisor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida. Prof Upadhyaya obtained PhD from Pennsylvania State University, USA in 1971, following which he gained research experience at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware. On returning to India in 1973, he joined Genetic Unit, Depart-ment of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. In 1975, he joined the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He served JNU as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor and Dean, School of Life Sci-ences; Director of Genetic Engineering Unit and Director of Admissions. He was also Vice-Chancellor of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2002-05). While at JNU, he established a molecular genetics labo-ratory and started teaching courses on genetics, molecular biology, molecular genetics and genetic engineering. His research centred on characterization of heat shock proteins; isolation, charac-terization and regulatory controls of

calmodulin (CaM) and phenylalaline ammonia-lyase (PAL) genes from Arabidopsis; and functional character-ization of retrotransposons from plant and rat genomes. Over his long research career, he has mentored a large number of students including more than 28 PhD students.

Dr Upadhyaya along with his colleagues was instrumental in setting up DBT-supported Centre for Plant Molecular Biology (CPMB) in the School of Life Sciences at JNU which was upgraded in 1998 as National Cen-tre for Plant Genome Research. He also worked for establishing the National Institute for Plant Genome Research. Prof. Upadhyaya has been Max-Planck and Senior DAAD Fellow in Germany and a Senior Fulbright Fellow in USA. He is an elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi; and the National Academy of Sciences, India, Allahabad.

“Biotechnology helps in Making More with Less

DR SUNIL S PANDEDirector, Rajiv Gandhi Biotechnology Centre, RTM Nagpur University

Dr Sunil S Pande is currently the Di-rector of Rajiv Gandhi Biotechnology Centre, Rashtrasanta Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur. He is also working as course co-ordinator of DBT-MSc teaching program at the university. In addition, he is the principal investiga-tor of the University Grants Commission (UGC) R&D project on ‘Development

of Nutraceuticals’ and co-Investigator of another UGC R&D project on ‘Devel-opment of Biosensors’. With over 25 years of teaching experience, Dr Sunil Pande has 55 publications, 7 books, 5 monographs to his credit. He is the research supervisor for over 30 MSc and 9 PhD students and a reviewer in British Biotechnology Journal, African Journal of Microbiology Research and Journal of Scientific Research and Reports.

Q. Why did you choose to make bio-technology/life science as your field of study/specialization?A. I was a bit of a rebellious youth. In the 70s, I became active in environmen-tal causes, focusing on fermentation technologies, biofertilizers and biological control of disease producing insects. I studied microbiology at University level in Maharashtra. The topic of choice for me was biological control of disease spreading arthropods. Then genetic en-gineering came along, and I was excited. Suddenly, it was possible to replace dirty chemistry with clean, natural biology. Using nature’s own resources, you could create a closed loop based on biodegrad-able materials; you could design your own crops and also go for personalized medicines. We could mirror nature’s system in the industrial environment – in fact; nature could drive the industrial environment.

Just like biofertilizers, biopesticides can provide a choice and savings. We can provide a choice and saving in other areas, too: Plastics and polymers based on renewable biomass; Renewable chem-icals instead of industrial ones; Animal feed that promotes greater nutrient ab-sorption and reduces harmful by-prod-ucts in animal waste. Biotechnology can separate plant matter in its building blocks so we make the best possible use of our resources. That’s food and fuel and feed and fiber and chemicals from the same plant. That is making more with less. And that is what the world needs; this thought about Biotechnology fasci-nated me a lot. Also think about the jobs that we are creating to do this: Jobs

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“Lifesciences Poses an Exciting Challenge in Research and Teaching”

DR PRABhJEET SINghProfessor and Head, Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar

Dr Prabhjeet Singh is currently Profes-sor and Head, Department of Biotech-nology, Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar. Post completion of MSc in Botany from University of Delhi, followed by Doctorate in Plant Physiol-ogy from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, he opted for a career in plant molecular biology. The opportunity for venturing into this research stream was provided by the award of DBT sponsored Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1990-1991), under the aegis of which he got the opportunity to carry out research on DNA fingerprinting of plants in the laboratory of Dr Lalji Singh at Centre for Cellular and Molec-ular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad.

Dr Prabhjeet Singh joined Guru Nanak Dev University at Amritsar in 1991 as a founder faculty member in the Department of Biotechnology. Since then he has been involved in teaching MSc students and has supervised five doctoral thesis and guided more than 40 MSc students for their project dissertations. He has executed more than ten research projects sanctioned by different funding agencies viz., DBT, AICTE, CSIR, etc. The findings of these

for farmers to grow food and fuel; Jobs for people to bring the biomass to the refineries; Jobs for people to use microbes for biofertilizers and biope-sticide production, etc. In that sense, I believe the journey of biotechnology has just begun. It is a journey that will move biotech out of the laboratory and onto the table of global economy, global health and global welfare. The world’s economies need us.

Q. What is your advice to the aspiring biotech/life science students?A. As biotechnology applications exist across healthcare, agriculture, food processing and industry, virtually any college major in a life science stream is likely to find a biotech application. As a nation, aspiring Biotech/Life Science students must take a serious look at everything from intellectual property and patent policy to economic policy, including such things as access to capital, incentives, and tax policy,how we invest in science, our reimburse-ment policies and of course, regulatory policy and regulatory reform.

All of these areas matter mightily to the robustness of the ecosystem—and they affect each other in powerful ways -- but too often they operate in silos. We are missing opportunities for syner-gy, and leadership, that we cannot afford to lose.

PROF BOLIN KUMAR KONwARVice Chancellor, Nagaland University

With a rich research experience in both industry and academia, Prof Bolin Kumar Konwar has been the Vice Chancellor of Nagaland Univer-

sity since 2011. He did PhD from Im-perial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, University of London in Plant Biotechnology in 1992. He was also offered DIC in Microbial Genet-ics. Prof. Konwar joined the Assam Agricultural University at Jorhat in 1984 and served there in various capacities. In 1995 he joined the Tock-lai Experimental Station, Tea Research Association as a Biotechnologist and later became the Head of the Bota-ny and Biotechnology department. During his stint at Tocklai, he worked on tea tissue and protoplast culture, genome analysis, genetic transfor-mation and microbial degradation of tea litters. After serving eight years in Tocklai Experimental Station, Tea Research Association, in 2002 Prof Konwar joined the Tezpur University, as Professor of Biotechnology and took the responsibility of Headship of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology for consecutive 6 years and thereafter became the Dean, School of Science and Technology. He has over 85 research publications in referred national and international journals, 44 proceedings publications and over 90 seminar presentations. Prof. Konwar and his scholars depos-ited 08 DNA sequences in gene banks and filed 03 patents.

Being the Principal Investigator, he carried out 12 major research proj-ects funded by DBT, CSIR, Tea Board, Ministry of Commerce, NMPB, ICAR and ONGC. More than 40 M Sc (Agril Biotech and Mol Biol & Biotech) and 09 PhD research projects were completed under him; and 05 scholars have been pursuing Ph D research under his supervision in metage-nomics, biofuel, bioinformatics, yeast genomics and alcohol production.



biology, which have thrown light on the role of immunophilins and calmod-ulin-binding proteins in plants.

AspirationsAs a teacher, to strengthen the funda-mental concepts of the students to the extent that they are able to apply this knowledge for exploring and exper-imenting with new ideas of higher level of learning, ultimately leading to creative new applications. As a researcher, to translate the basic research carried out in our lab on plant molecular biology into economically viable agricultural solutions.

“Biotechnology Integrates the Strengths of Engineering and Miracle of Life”

DR PRATAP KUMAR PATIAssociate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar

Dr Pratap Pati is working as Associate Professor in Department of Biotech-nology, Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) Amritsar. Since the past 14 years, he has been engaged inteaching and research at GNDU. Soon after completing Ph.D from CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Biore-source Technology, Palampur, Dr Pati joined the Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences at GNDU as a lecturer and has since served the university in various capacities.

studies have been published in about 50 different journals of national and international repute. Dr Singh is on the panel of referees for reviewing manu-scripts for publication in more than 30 international journals, including Na-ture. He is also on the panel of referees for reviewing applications for research grants submitted to different funding agencies.

On choosing biotechnology as a career choice Understanding the different facets of living system and its regulation is one of the most challenging tasks. The application of modern biotechnological tools provide an opportunity to modify the living cell not only for commercial purpose but also for unravelling some of the fundamental biological mysteries.

Trials and tribulations in careerAs founding member of the Depart-ment of Biotechnology in Guru Nanak Dev University, it was a challenge for me and my colleagues to build up the requisite infrastructure, which will meet the research and teaching aspirations of the students. However, with active support of one and all in the Universi-ty it was possible to prevail over these challenges. Passion for teaching and research, combined with sincerity and hard work has ensured, relatively, a smooth career graph.

Significant achievements till dateAs a teacher and mentor, it is a matter of great satisfaction that I have con-tributed to the generation of trained human resource in biotechnology, an important field of science in the present context. Several of our alumni are oc-cupying important positions in national and international institutes/universities. As a researcher, studies carried out by our lab in collaboration with eminent scientists have resulted in identifying genes in wheat, which have the poten-tial to enhance the tolerance of crop plants under different abiotic stress con-ditions. Our studies have also addressed some fundamental questions in plant

Through international fellowships, Dr Pati gained post-doctoral research experience at CIRAD, Montpellier, France and Department of Horticulture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ken-tucky, USA. Currently, he is working in the area of biotechnological interven-tions in medicinal plants and studying the role of phytohormones in stress management. Conferred with the INSA Teachers Award in 2012,Dr Pati has been a committee member for prepara-tion of syllabus and framing guidelines of DBT-JRF program. He is also a com-mittee member for mentoring Colleges under Star College Scheme of DBT.

Q. What excites you about the field of biotechnology?A. “Life science” interested me right from my school days. During the course of my higher studies, I realized the im-mense potential of biotechnology and its far reaching impact on the society. Biotechnology being truly an interdisci-plinary subject provides ample op-portunity, competency, technique and tools for the benefit of humankind. It is integrating the strengths of engineer-ing and miracle of life. Biotechnology has immense scope as it spans across various fields like pharmaceuticals, bioinformatics, agriculture, horticul-ture, green technology, fuel, bio-service sector etc. Harnessing the potential of IT, biotechnology is now entering a new domain of synthetic biology and in silico biology. Being a part of this new revolution is very exciting. As a teacher, when I motivate young minds, guiding and inspiring them to strive for the best, makes my dream of life come true.

Q. What have been the challenges in your career path so far?A. There is no short cut to success and the same is true for research as well. When I joined as a lecturer, I realized that it was not easy to initiate indepen-dent research without funds and lab. I utilized the time in reading, crystal-lizing my thoughts and building novel concepts for my research. Until I



The high AchieversThe list of students, graduating from the DBT biotech PG teaching program, who have made a mark for themselves in research, aca-demia and industry both in India and abroad is a long one. Many of them are pursuing research with international collaborations, working as senior scientists, turning entrepreneurs or occupying senior positions in the industry. The following section captures the views and brief profiles of a cross section of these quick ‘learners’.

In any case professionalism should be adopted and mediocrity avoided. Students should have positive attitude about life. They should remember 3Cs of life: Conviction, Commitment and Confidence. Imbibing 3Cs with determi-nation, hard work and honesty, I am sure one can easily achieve the goal in life.

“Focus on Understanding the Basic Mechanisms of Life Processes”

PROF. ANAND K KONDAPIProfessor, Molecular Therapeutics, Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Hyderabad

Dr Anand K Kondapi is Professor in Molecular Therapeutics at Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics,

received my first grant, I had to manage research through Master’s student. I learnt in my life that hard times never last long but tough people do. I honestly feel that one should have a dream, and passion to chase it.

Each day is a challenge for research-er but when you are surrounded with motivated students and you have high level of positive energy, the profession becomes a cherishable journey.

Your message for Biotech/Life Science students Being an interdisciplinary subject, students from any stream with sound understanding of fundamentals of biology can contribute to biotechnol-ogy. Realizing the accelerating power of biotechnology, I feel exciting career opportunity awaits both young re-searchers and entrepreneurs trained in biotechnology. To harness the benefit of bio innovation, both Government and Private sector are coming forward in extending financial and infrastructural support. Since biotech industry relies on intellectual capital, human resource is critical and employability is higher in this sector. Depending on aptitude, biotech aspirants have multiple career options. They can choose academics, research or join industry. Still other with entrepreneurship skill can venture into opening new industries.

University of Hyderabad. He has over 20 years of teaching and research experi-ence in this area with 55 publications, 9 patents granted/filed, and has guided 15 students for PhD thesis. Dr Kondapi completed Masters and Doctorate studies from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.

Talking about his journey into the biotechnology field, he said “As a physical chemist with PhD degree from Andhra University, my interest was to understand molecular recognition that occurs among biological molecules in progression of biological function. Hence, I chose NBTB Research Associ-ateship from 1990 to 1993 at Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and DBT Overseas Associateship in 1996 to work at National cancer institute, NIH and Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, USA.” “I have been addressing basic mecha-nisms in disease progression with an aim to develop therapeutics in cancer, HIV and neuronal senescence,” he added.In order to be successful in the bioscienc-es arena he emphasized that “Student should focus on understanding the basic mechanisms of life processes; Based on the mechanisms, student should able to model a functional system; Based on a functional model, student should able to create a technique with potential appli-cation in science.”


Q. What have been your significant achievements till date? Your aspira-tions for the futureA. My most significant achievement, in addition to my publication in the various high impact journals, is the success of antimicrobial peptides DPK-060 in phase-II clinical trials for patho-genic infections. This was the molecule on which I worked extensively during my PhD studies in Sweden and later outsourced to the company Dermagen in Sweden. My future aspiration is that I would like to estab-lish myself as a leading scientist in the biotechnology field by developing new drug molecules (peptides/ pigments) for lung and skin infections, especially for the pathogens which are specific to the Indian subcontinent.

“Your Job will become your hobby”

DR RAJEEv SONISenior Manager, R&D at Novozymes

Rajeev Soni is a PhD. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the University of Cambridge, U.K. and has over 20 years of research and develop-ment experience including industry and academia. An alumnus of Jawa-harlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi (Dr Soni did MSc Biotechnology from JNU) he has been instrumental in the design and management of state of the art molecular biology labs at Lidak (Avanir) Pharmaceuticals, La Jolla, USA, De Montfort University, Leices-ter, U.K., The Naval Research Lab, Washington D.C., USA, Ranbaxy

“Let Passion, Zeal and Love towards the Subject drive You”

DR MUKESh PASUPULETISenior Scientist, Microbiology Division, CDRI, Lucknow

Dr Mukesh Pasupuleti is presently working as Senior Scientist in Micro-biology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute at Lucknow. His research interest involves designing, testing and optimising (both in vitro as well as in vivo), various antimicrobial agents especially for bacterial and fungal infections. Dr Pasupuleti completed his Masters in biotechnology from Calicut University, Kerala and PhD in clinical medicine from Lund University, Sweden. Post PhD, he gained research experience at various reputed international research institutions like the Centre for Micro-bial Diseases and Immunity Research, University of British Columbia, Canada and the Lund University, Sweden. Prior to joining CDRI, he was working as the Research Assistant Professor, SRM Research Institute, SRM University, Chennai.

Q. How did you gravitate towards the field of biosciences?A. There are two incidents which moved me towards the field of life science. The first one, when I was young, around ten years, I read a newspaper article which proved beyond any doubt for the first time that cancer can also be caused by “virus”. The second one occurred when I was around fourteen.

I read the book “Genetic Engineering” by Sandya Mitra. To be modest, I do not say that I understood everything at that time, but somehow it really fascinated me to explore more about life science. I decided to pursue my basic higher education in genetics, as I thought that, if you need to modify something, you should first understand how it is built. After having bachelor’s degree in genet-ics as major subject, I moved to pursue biotechnology from University of Cali-cut, Kerala. Even today when I suggest or do an experiment myself, I wait for the results as anxiously as a small boy wait-ing for gifts on his birthday. This type of anxiety and zeal to know the unknown pushed me to opt for a career in biotech-nology research.

Q. What have been the trials and tribulations in your career path so far?A. The first turbulent phase in my life was the time when I was trying to find a good lab to do a PhD. At that time in order to do a PhD you need to clear the CSIR exam. Unfortunately at that time the exam paper leaned more towards the basic sciences, while we were trained in the cutting edge areas. So it took some time to sit back and learn things according to the exam format. The second most trying period in my career was to find a job which would give me an opportunity to grow myself in this field. I think there is a large dis-parity in the number of students getting a biotechnology degree and the number of them getting employed. I have described in details the hardships that I faced during my job search in the article “Luring and fooling foreign-trained young Indian researchers” published in Current Science Volume 101 - Issue 08: 25 October 2011. The most frustrating thing which I now encounter with stu-dents who come to join for PhD or re-search is the lack of basic practical skills and experiment data analysis. They expect that every experiment should be successful and give benefits in short time.



biotechnology, Gurgaon, India and at PREMAS, Gurgaon, India.

In 2005, he turned a ‘technopre-neur’ and founded Premas Biotech, along with a team of entrepreneurs and investors and served as President and COO from inception till January. 2012. He was responsible for in-house and contract research and development. He managed marketing and business development aspects of the business as well and has keen understanding of the life science market in India, Europe and USA. He is currently serving as Senior Manager, R&D at Novozymes in Bangalore.

His area of specialization is varied and includes Innovative drug discov-ery research for Cancer and Infectious diseases focusing on both NCE’s and Bio-therapeutics, CRAMS (contract research and manufacturing services), enzyme engineering for biofuels, de-velopment and refinement of systems for protein expression in E.coli, yeast and mammalian cells, fund raising, strategic planning, consulting for bio-similar and novel bio-therapeutics and business development in the biotech sector.

Q. What is your current profile?A. I am currently, serving as Senior Manager, R&D at Novozymes where the role is to lead a group of people working on various enzymes for dif-ferent applications. I am also manag-ing the molecular biology aspects of various ongoing projects in protein engineering and diversity. Develop-ment and refinement of systems for enzyme expression in Aspergillus and Bacillus systems. In addition, I am also involved in people development and managing a team of highly motivated individuals to deliver projects in a successful and timely manner.

Q. What attracted you to biotech-nology/life science?A. From my school days I was intrigued by biology as a subject and wanted to understand and learn more

about living beings and their process-es. Biotechnology was the apt subject to understand the same and apply the knowledge for the benefit of mankind.

Q. How do you see your professional journey so far?A. My stay at the University of Cam-bridge to read for my Ph.D. degree was full of adventures, surprises and achievements. The journey since then has been exciting with plenty of ups and downs albeit associated with great learning experiences. One of them was starting a contract research organisa-tion by securing venture capital fund-ing and running the same for more than 5 years.

Q. What have been your significant achievements till date? Your aspira-tions for the futureA. Significant achievements are the following:a) Discovery of G1 cyclins in plantsb) Discovery of a specific small mole cule inhibitor of Cdk4c) Development of a synthetic nuclease for bioterrorismd) Stint as a biotech entrepreneur

Aspirations for future is to be involved in cutting edge technological discover-ies that can a) Benefit human and animal healthb) Provide us with sustainable energy solutions.

Some wisdom nuggets for the current crop of biosciences studentsMy advice to students is that they should follow their dreams to the fullest and leave no stone unturned to achieve them. Success only comes from hard work and perseverance and there is no short cut to it. If you enjoy and have passion for what you do, your job would become your hobby.

“Need to set a Focussed goal”

ChANDAN KUMARScientific Officer-D, Isotope Applications & Radiopharmaceuticals Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai

Chandan Kumar is currently hold-ing the ‘Scientific Officer-D’ post in Isotope Applications & Radiopharma-ceuticals Division of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, under aegis of Department of Atomic Energy, Gov-ernment of India. He joined the Radio-pharmaceuticals Division in 2006 and is an alumnus of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhu-baneshwar from where he did MSc in agricultural biotechnology. In 2013 he submitted PhD thesis at Homi Bhabha National Institute, BARC, Mumbai. With 12 publications to his credit, he has developed a single vial kit for cardiac imaging with his colleagues at BARC. In addition he has also devel-oped osteosarcoma cell culture model for the in-vitro testing of bone pain palliation agents at Bhabha Research Centre.

Q. How did you decide on your field of specialization?

A. In the current global scenario, people are mainly suffering from two major challenges --health issues and food security. I believe that food scarcity can be solved by the sound food distribution, storage and proper transportation facilities. But in spite of healthy food, people are suffering from



agent. He has also initiated a research programme in area of skin pigmenta-tion, with particular interest in vitiligo.

Dr Gokhale is an alumnus of IIT Mumbai, from where he did MSc biotechnology from the department of Biosciences and Bioengineering. He completed his PhD degree from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in the area of protein folding and stability and then carried out Postdoctoral work at Stanford University in polyketide synthases and secondary metabolite biosynthesis. He is recipient of several awards includ-ing, Swarnajayanti Fellowships, Shanti Swaroop Bhatanagar Prize and National Bioscience Award for Career Devel-opment. He is a member of several scientific advisory committees and is also a section editor of Tuberculosis journal and on the advisory board of Natural Product Reports.

“have an Innovative Attitude”

DEEPANKAR RAMTEKEManager, Merck Specialities, Gujarat

Deepankar Ramteke is an alumnus of Rashtrasanta Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur, from where he completed MSc biotechnology. Cur-rently he is working as Manager with Merck Specialities Pvt Ltd in Gujarat. Merck Specialities is the Indian sales organization of the global Merck Group of Darmstadt, Germany, which supplies the Indian market with high-quality pharmaceutical and chemical products. Mr Ramteke’s message to the students

deadly diseases like cancer, cardiovas-cular diseases, etc. so I have chosen to work in the health sector, primarily on cancer diagnosis and therapy, and made cancer biology as my field of specialization.

Q. What is your advice to students?

A. There is a need to set a focussed goal. Further, just fixing a goal is not enough but work hard towards achieving it.

DR RAJESh S. gOKhALEDirector, IGIB, Delhi

Dr Rajesh S. Gokhale is the Director of CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Inte-grative Biology (CSIR-IGIB). Prior to this he was a faculty at National Institute of Immunology (NII) in the area of Chemical and Systems Biology. In his capacity he has led interdisci-plinary initiatives that have spawned new avenues in the area of functional genomics research and healthcare. Dr Gokhale is also Co-founder of Vyome Biosciences (VYOME), a biopharmaceutical company developing best in class drugs for dermatology care utilizing genomics knowledge.

Dr Gokhale’s scientific contributions have earned him international recog-nition in understanding tuberculosis pathogenesis, with a focus to under-stand complex cell envelope coat of my-cobacterium- a unique feature of this pathogen. His research has provided new insights into the chemico-cellular trestle of mycobacteria, providing new opportunity to delineate remarkable dormancy dynamics of this infectious

is: Set high goals and pursue it with passion; Have an innovative attitude and patience to overcome difficulties; and welcome people who can take challenges.

“Make Sure you Love what you Choose to do”

DR MRIDUL MUKhERJIAssociate Professor, Division of Pharmaceutical sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA

Dr Mridul Mukherji is an alumnus of the University of Calicut, Kerala from where he did Masters in biotechnology. Currently he is Associate Professor, Division of Pharmaceutical sciences, School of Pharmacy at the University of Missouri in Kansas city, USA.

Passionate about research and teaching, Dr Mukherji said “I have loved biotechnology/life science research and teaching more than any other profession in life. But I had to work extremely hard to succeed. And unfortunately, just hard work doesn’t guaranteed success in re-search. One has to be very lucky as well.

Sharing his significant achievement till date, he said, “It was to determine the oxygen sensing mechanism at mo-lecular levels in cells.” Advising students he stated “Make sure you love what you choose to do. Work hard and honestly. There are no sort cuts in life. You got to learn everything the hard way. Seek good advice.” ■



The vision of all stakeholders of the biotech community is to make the Indian Biotech Industry a 100 billion dollar industry by 2025. Currently there is a vibrant and dynamic biotech environment in the country with high levels of innovation and entrepreneurial zeal. There is an increased academia-indus-try interface as well. In this encouraging ecosystem there is a need to attract more students to the bio-sciences domain, inculcate the culture of innovation at the university level, promote entrepreneurship, strengthen the incubation centres and connect the universities and research institutes even more closely with the industry. The Department of Science (DST) and Technology and the Department of Biotechnol-ogy (DBT) are playing an active role in creating the future techno-entrepreneurs. A look into the various schemes launched by the DBT and DST to help, handhold and mentor the entrepreneurs.

Empowering the Technopreneur

Encouraging Entrepreneurship: The BIRAC way

BIRAC is actively engaging with innovation researchers whether they are university academics, first-gen-eration entrepreneurs involved with spinoff firms or small start-ups (possibly based at incubation centers), or even medium-sized and large enterprises already in the business for taking discovery to product development.

In order to support innovation, en-trepreneurship and taking the leads beyond the discovery stage, the

Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) a section 25 “Not for Profit Company” of Government of India was incor-porated on 20th March 2012. BIRAC is the Department of Biotechnology’s Interface agency, which serves as a single window for the emerging biotech industries. Some important schemes of interest for students under BIRAC are:

Biotechnology Ignition Grant support: Supports and nurtures high risk early starters and their concepts

The Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) scheme is for potential entrepre-neurs from academia, start-ups or an incubatee (researchers, PhDs, medical degree holders, biomedical engineering graduates) who have an exciting idea which may be in the nascent and plan-ning stage and there is an unmet need for mentorship and initial funding. This scheme is designed to stimulate commercialization of research discover-ies by providing very early stage grants for the development and maturation of those discoveries into marketable prod-uct or intellectual property (IP), in par-ticular to help bridge the gap between discovery and invention. The funding is in the form of grant in aid, limited up to Rs 50 lakhs, and the period for the study is 18 months.

The BIG scheme is being imple-mented through 5 BIG Partners across the country: IKP Knowledge Park, Hyderabad; Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), Bangalore; Foundation for innovation and technology transfer, New Delhi, NCL Venture Park, Pune and KIIT Bio-incubator, Bhubaneshwar with the aim of supporting 150 BIG incubatees. Four calls have been announced since June 2012 and 643 proposals

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“BIRAC is playing a critical role in encouraging innovation by handholding and mentoring the biotech entrepreneurs. In addition it is providing some level of risk mitigation to investors supporting the biotech enterprise. Through its various schemes like the BIG, SIBRI, BIPP it supports early and late stage innovation research. BIRAC has also strengthened 11 existing bio incubators across the country and approx. 70,000 sq.ft of bio incubator space has been cre-ated to support start up. During the past five years, through BIRAP (Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Program) and now BIRAC, the DBT has been instrumental in supporting 50 start-ups, 150 companies and has resulted in the development of 15 new tech-nologies, 10 products and 26 IPs.”“In a new initiative, beginning this year, BIRAC in association with the National Innovation Council and the Biotech Industry has launched the University Innovation Cluster program. This Program will support the Universities to proactively create vibrant ecosystems that can seed, foster and nurture innovation.” Elaborating about the University Innovation Program, she added “the program aims to en-courage young student with bright ideas with right handholding and mentoring towards entrepreneurship. The basic criterion is that they must have an aptitude for research and development and be able to lead the idea to the critical stage. Five universities have been selected to participate in Phase-I of this initiative, which will commence in April this year. There is also a provision for fellowships in the pro-gram. Initially there are six fellowships per centre, which would be expanded later”.

Adviser, DBT & Managing Director, BIRACDR. RENU SwARUP

were received in these four calls. 36 BIG (applicants with whom agreements has been signed) innovators in areas of Bio-medical Devices, Healthcare, Bioenergy, Industrial processes have been awarded the grants.

University Innovation Cluster: A BIRAC-National Innovation Council initiative jointly with the Biotech Industry to encourage student entrepreneurs.The University Innovation Cluster launched in January 2014 aims to nurture a culture of applied research and innovation among researchers, early in their careers. This initiative catches the students young, provides professional mentoring and support needed with a focus on fostering the local ecosystems.

With this initiative, BIRAC has developed a focused strategic action plan to foster the culture of innovation and techno-entrepreneurship in Indian Uni-versities. This will support the Universi-ties to proactively create vibrant ecosys-tems that can seed, foster and nurture innovation.

Under the initiative, a Cluster Innovation Centre in Biotechnology (CIC-B), hosted in the university, will be the nerve centre to manage the Univer-sity Innovation Cluster activities. Along with facilitating the creation of networks, partnerships between stakeholders to strengthen the innovation ecosystem, the CIC-B is envisaged to provide pre-in-cubation support to innovative ideas, innovators for effective translation into products thereof. Such support will include technical trainings, IP manage-ment, technology business management, access to risk finance among others.

All programs currently operated by BIRAC will be accessible through the UIC initiative and participant univer-sities will be encouraged to creatively leverage existing programs for maximum gain. The program would also aim at leveraging existing resources from com-plementary private and public support programs and institutions.

The five Universities selected to participate in the Phase-I of this initiative are:

1. Anna University, Chennai2. Punjab University, Chandigarh3. Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore4. University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

5. University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.

These universities will shortly set-up CIC-Bs and will initiate innovation-focused activities in the near future.

With enthusiastic support promised by all stakeholders of the Biotechsector, this initiative is envisaged to

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ten existing Bio-incuBators

■ ZtMBPD at iari, new Delhi

■ entrepreneurship Development centre (trademark: Venture center), ncL, Pune

■ iKP Knowledge park, genome Valley, Hyderabad

■ gujarat state Biotechnology Mission (gsBtM), Department of science and tech, government of gujarat

■ iit Madras

■ Biotech incubation centre, Btic facility, Hyderabad

■ foundation for innovation and technology transfer (fitt), iit Delhi

■ siDBi innovation and incubation centre (siic), iit Kanpur

■ Kiit incubator, Bhubaneshwar

■ society for Biotechnology incubation center, genome Valley, Hyderabad

start showing positive results as early as the end of the year.

Contract Research Scheme: Apart from the above student-centric schemes, there is a Contract Research Scheme (CRS) to facilitate the academia-industry interaction to take forward the research leads of academic universities and research institutes through validation andtranslation by Industry.

SBIRI and BIPP:BIRAC also supports early stage research for proof of concept valida-tion via its Small Business Innovation Research Initiative (SBIRI) scheme and partners with industry for high risk discovery led innovation research under the Biotechnology Industry Partnership Program (BIPP).

In fact, the SBIRI scheme has been DBT’s pioneer program for promoting small and medium enterprises focusing on scientific innovations. During the financial year 2012-13 the Department sanctioned 30 new projects focused on development of biosimilars, transgenic crops, laboratory equipment, co-culture model, animal feed manufacturing among others.

While the Biotechnology Industry Partnership Program (BIPP) is the government partnership with industries on a cost sharing basis to support path breaking research in frontier futuristic technology areas having major economic potential and mak-ing the Indian industry globally competitive. BIPP supported innova-tion research for the development of appropriate technologies in the area of agriculture, health, bio-energy, green manufacturing, when the scale of the problem has serious consequences for social and economic development. This advanced technology scheme is focused on high risk futuristic technologies and is mainly for viability gap funding. The uniqueness of this scheme is that it is for “breakthrough research” which enables product and process develop-

ment and is patentable, with IP owner-ship rights resting with the Industry.

The SIBRI and BIPP have created visible impact through public private partnerships, especially in promoting high risk innovative R&D catalysing collaborative efforts specifically be-tween the industry and the academia. It is noteworthy to mention that indus-try’s contribution in these schemes has been equally significant thus highlight-ing the fact that these two schemes are true representative of the national policy of empowering the PPP model. It is estimated that these two schemes have attracted about Rs 700 crore from the industry against an investment of Rs 500 crore from the Government.

Bio-incubator support scheme:In order to foster techno entrepre-neurship in biotechnology, BIRAC has Bio-incubator Support Scheme (BISS) for strengthening and up gradation of the existing bioincubators and also to establish new world class bio-incu-bators in certain strategic locations. Ten existing Bio-incubators across the country have been strengthened and

approximately 70,000 sq.ft of bio-incu-bator space has been created to support start- ups.

During the FY12-13, the Faridabad Bio Cluster has been identified to estab-lish as a world class Bio incubator with focus of medical devices, biopharma-ceuticals and diagnostics.

Capacity building:Notably, BIRAC also supports entrepre-neurship development through capacity building, mentoring and other facilita-tion for technology transfer, network-ing, etc., for the incubator and other start-ups. BIRAC has entered into an agreement with the Cambridge Centre for Entrepreneurship learning (CEL) to support Start up Entrepreneurs mentor-ing for a 2 week program at Judge Busi-ness School, Cambridge. The CEL also works with ABLE and conducts a series of workshops for students and young entrepreneurs across the country ■

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The National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), established in 1982 by the Government of India under the aegis of Department of Science & Technology, is an institu-tional mechanism to promote knowledge driven and technology intensive enterprises. The Board aims to integrate innovation and entrepreneurship in academia, through various initiatives with a view to translate knowledge to wealth and convert “job-seekers” into “job-generators”.

Linking S&T to New venture and Employment Creation

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Technology Business Incubators (TBIs): Technology Business Incu-bator (TBI) is a flagship program of NSTEDB for transforming innovative and knowledge based start-ups into sustainable businesses by providing modern functional space coupled with the specialized business support services for the start-ups, that is, technical expertise from the host institute, seed stage funding, men-toring and networking etc. Till date 72 TBI’s have been supported by the Department, which are usually located in and around an R&D or academic institution. This program has nurtured over 1600 start-ups, out of which 900 companies have successfully graduated resulting in employment generation for more than 28,000 persons with tentative turn-over of Rs.817 crore. NSTEDB through its various programs and initiatives is continuously work-ing to strengthen the key components of innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem to nurture techno-entrepre-neurship in the country.

Seed Fund to Incubators: The basic idea of providing seed fund is to equip the Science and Technology Entre-preneurs Park (STEP) or TBI with the much needed early stage financial assistance to be provided to deserving ideas/technologies of start-ups under incubation. This would enable some of these innovative ideas/technologies to graduate to a level where they can then be fit for seeking normal lending com-mercial banks /FI’s route in their way to the successful commercialization process. Thus the proposed assistance is positioned to act as a bridge between development and commercialisation of technologies. By getting timely support of the seed fund, over 60 start-up com-panies have taken their ventures to the next level by way of enhancement in total revenues, validating prototypes, securing market orders and raising external funding through angels/VCs.

Some Important Programs of the Board are:The Power of Ideas: National Sci-ence and Technology Development Board has partnered with The Eco-nomic Times and Centre for Innova-tion, Incubation and Entrepreneurship for implementation of India’s largest innovation scouting and promotion program The Power of Ideas to scout, select, mentor and reward the innova-tions on pan India basis cutting across all sectors.

DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program (IIGP): DST & Lokheed Martin Glob-al Inc. supported India Innovation Growth Program is a unique, bi-national, strategic public private partnership initiative representing government, industry and institute designed to foster and integrate intellectual capital, innovation val-ue chain, landscape and ecosystem in the country. The IIGP Program being implemented by Department in partnership with Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and FICCI, has added further impetus to the ongoing efforts through knowledge partnership from Stanford Graduate School of Business(GBS), Stanford Univ., USA. It taps nearly 1000 inno-vations through pan India road shows. Through a structured screening, 50 innovators are shortlisted for a week long training and mentoring through GBS team in India. At the end of the competition, 20 best innovations are awarded a cash prize of one lakh each. Top 10 Innovators are selected for a week long Silicon Valley Ecosystem Exposure visit in USA. In additions technology expos are held at few cities to show case the selected innovations, which also provides a platform for market outreach.

Innovation and Entrepreneur-ship Development Centres: In addition to the TBIs, the Board promotes Innovation and

Dr Anita Gupta is Director at National Science and Development Entrepreneurship Development (NSTEDB). She has over 20 years of work experience in academic, research and in managing Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India’s initia-tives on technology based entrepre-neurship in partnership with leading technical institutions of the country. In an interview she outlines the active ingredients required for entrepreneur-ship.

Q. Do you see a rise in the entrepre-neurship culture among the science community in the country?

A. The trend is continuously evolv-ing. During the last 5 years, India has witnessed an increasing interest and passion amongst young S&T students, graduates and professionals towards creativity, innovation and entrepreneur-ship. All this indicate a positive shift and a mind-set orientation for serious entrepreneurship and a gradual evolu-tion of a conducive ecosystem in a steady manner.

“Be the job generator and change agent of your society”

DR ANITA gUPTADirector at National Science and Development Entrepreneurship Development (NSTEDB)

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◀ Entrepreneurship Development Centre (IEDC) in education insti-tutions. The IEDCs aim to promote innovation amongst the students of Science and Technology and helps in developing institutional mechanism to create entrepreneurial culture in academic institutions to foster growth of innovation and entrepreneurship amongst the faculty and students. The students are encouraged to take up innovative projects as a part of their curriculum and are supported to

Q. What is your advice to students who are on the brink of graduation from their professional courses look-ing for career avenues?

A. If you are creative, a risk taker and passionate then go for entrepreneur-ship. Do not look for a stable job as an ultimate goal of your career. Have courage to take the path less travelled, be the job generator and be a change agent of your society.

Q. How do you see the performance of the TDB and NSTEDB since these programs were initiated?

A. Our role is largely limited to facili-tate entrepreneurship through various programs, initiatives and funding sys-tem which creates a conducive and an enabling environment to foster knowl-edge, skills and appropriate networks for technology based entrepreneurship to sustain, scale and flourish in the marketplace. Over the years, there has been good amount of success and learning, which enables the Depart-ment to continuously work towards enhancing the effectiveness and adding value through new initiatives.

Q. Are there any new programs/ini-tiatives under TDB or NSTEDB slated for the future towards encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship?

A. All the institution based programs of NSTEDB aim at tapping innovations and strengthening the market value chain through series of initiatives and programs. Be it scouting of innovations through “Power of Ideas”, conducting Business plan competitions at collegiate level, instilling creativity and inno-vation culture through establishment of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Cells at technical colleges and Universities, providing incubation support to fledgling technology based start-ups by setting up of Technol-ogy Business Incubators hosted by academic institutes, providing timely seed support to start ups in incubators both by NSTEDB and TDB and fiscal

incentives to start ups in incubators, etc. All these initiatives focus on orienting the academic environment towards entrepreneurship. Some good efforts have been already been made by the government but more needs to be done as there are still miles to go …

Q. Despite the various support initia-tives launched by the government, there are a sizable science student population not being able to secure jobs. How can they channelize themselves?

A. There are other factors leading to the present job scenario. First and foremost is the knowledge and skills imparted at graduate level, which do not make a student job or industry ready. There are gaps in what the job market needs and what is available. Most of the students are still “work in progress but not in the finished product stage” as an analogy to production work in a factory. All the Institutions should ideally have an entrepreneurship devel-opment cell to give initial exposure on innovation and entrepreneurship both to students and faculty to create positiv-ity about it. Such initiative would go a long way in channelizing and moulding students towards entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship awareness and read-iness courses should be taught at uni-versities and institutions which would be motivate students and they would in a position to take entrepreneurship as a career option at any stage later in their life with confidence, pride and dignity.

develop a working prototype.

Training Programs on Entrepre-neurship: In addition to the above pro-grams the Board also plays an important role in orienting the students towards entrepreneurship. For sensitization, awareness creation, capacity building and knowledge enhancement on various aspects of entrepreneurship NSTEDB supports organizations for conducting various modules of training programs across the country.

Besides the efforts of the NSTEDB, under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the Technology Development Board (TDB) also playsa crucial role of supporting entrepre-neurs and acting as a bridge between development and commercialization of technologies.

The mandate of the TDB is to provide financial assistance to the industry and other agencies attempting development and commercial application of indige-nous technology or adapting imported technology for wider domestic applica-tion. In addition to the direct support to industries, TDB networks with technology focused Venture Capital Fund (VCF) to support technologically innovative viable ventures. This is done with the objective to spread itself by pro-viding support to early stage ventures for SMEs having innovation and innovative products/services.

TDB also provides financial assis-tance to Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) and Science & Technology Entre-preneurs Parks (STEPs) under Seed Support System for Start-ups. The assistance is positioned to create techno entrepreneurs. The magnitude of this scheme can be gauged by the fact that so far TDB has provided financial assistance of Rs 100 lakh each as grant to 36 (Thirty Six) Technology Business Incubators(TBIs) and Science & Technology Entre-preneurs Parks (STEPs). This scheme has benefited entrepreneurs from STEPs and incubators in various fields ■

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“First Learn and then venture into Entrepreneurship”

With over two decades of research experience in the biosciences arena,

Dr Manjula Das has donned many hats--a researcher, chief scientific officer, and an entrepreneur. Cur-rently she heads the Drug Discovery Services and Bioanalytical division at BIONEEDS, a Bangalore based leading preclinical Contract Research Com-pany. She has been instrumental in setting up the Drug Discovery Service division at the company. Earlier in 2007, Dr Das turned an entrepreneur and started Abexome Biosciences, where she was the cofounder, director and the chief scientific officer. After 5 years, when the investors wanted to exit the business, she moved out of the company.

Post a PhD from IISc and post-doctoral research at Mc Gill University Canada and MIT USA, Dr Das has spent about 13 years at management positions, incidentally all in start-up biotechnology companies. On her return to India, with her own project from MIT and McGill Dr Das became one of the first employees of Metahelix,

DR MANJULA DASDirector, Drug Discovery Services, BIONEEDS, Bangalore

now a leading bioagri company, where she was involved in setting up the bioinformatics division. Dr Das then moved to another start-up, Connex-ios Life Sciences, as its chief scientific officer where she started the wet lab for drug discovery in the area of Diabetes. She moved from Connexios to start Abexome, a specialized service and product company.

In this interview Dr Manjula Das outlines the essential prerequisites for being an entrepreneur.

Q. How did you decide to turn into an entrepreneur?

A. Coming from Academia (IISc, McGill and MIT) I wanted to work in a broader set up where I can address and direct a whole program rather than trying to solve one particular problem in one confined lab. I believe biology practical research needs a bigger arena than isolated labs in In-dian academia. I felt Industry was the right set up for me. However, at that point did not find any right “Indian” industry where I could use my complete potential. Hence, decided to try my own.

Q. What have been your major learnings while treading this path?

A. 1. The biggest learning is green-horn entrepreneurship is the most dangerous career that one can select! One needs to first gain experience working in an appropriate industry, preferably a midsize start up for at least 5-10 years. Making business with

honest science is a ‘subject’ to be mas-tered before claiming that ‘I am an entrepreneur’.

2. Choice of source of funding is the next most important things. This would also come from experience in an Industry.

3. Sound knowledge of finance or a trusted chief financial officer (CFO) is a must in any start up.

Q. What are the key qualities required to tread the path of entrepreneurship?

A. 1. Courage: To face adversities. It is not easy to be an entrepreneur

2. Intellect: To predict the reaction of your action

3. Good Health arising from Healthy habits: To sail through the constant tension

Q. What is your advice to students who want to start on their own?

A. First learn and then venture. Do not trivialize entrepreneurship.

Q. The Department of Biotechnolo-gy has launched various schemes to help, handhold and mentor entrepre-neurs? Have you benefited from these schemes, if so then how?

A. The support of DBT during my journey as an entrepreneur has been tremendous to say the least. I am encapsulating my interaction with DBT and the support received from them under various schemes in the following points:

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1. SBIRI: While at Abexome, we received a grant of Rs 20 lakhs under this scheme. There was an extremely fair and scientific evaluation of pro-posal and milestones. At Abexome we were told not to offer the visiting evaluation committee any food and we did not even offer coffee during the site visit! However, they permitted us to offer only coffee during the milestone evaluation meetings. My only negative comment about the SBIRI scheme was that how come well established com-panies get the funding meant for Small Business Initiatives?

2. BIPP: This is a very good scheme. At Abexome, we received a soft loan of Rs 1.8 crore. Once again there was an extremely fair and scientific evaluation of proposal and milestones. During one of the evaluation meetings at Delhi they even arranged for my conveyance to and fro the airport since there was a declared bandh.When Abexome was abruptly shut down by the investors, the BIRAC team was most kind to me on their email and phone communications. I offered personal help, but I have not been approached by them. Although, I do not know the situation with the projects now, but what I want to tell is that DBT, though BIRAC goes out of their way to support you if you are do-ing technically good work. You do not need to have any ‘connection’ to DBT or a pedigree.

3. CRS: This is the best scheme of DBT as of now. It utilizes the tech-nical capability of the academia and the market experience of the industry. Though it is not for entrepreneurs but then DBT’s job is not only to build en-trepreneurs. The Department should look at matured product development, which CRS does. While at Abexome, we got qualified for a presentation for a CRS proposal. However, I did not attend the meeting since by then Abexome was declared to be closed.

4. SPARSH/BIG: DBT is probably the only government body in the whole world which offers such opportunities to individual entrepreneurs. However, I think that evaluation of entrepreneurs should be also on the basis of their capabilities to carry a project through to the market, not only on the technical part.

I feel that trying to make entre-preneurs right from colleges is not a very good approach. People with no industry experience should not be given SPARSH or BIG as just a novel and technically sound proposal is not enough to take a product or idea to the market.

5. BITP: This is one of the best running programs of DBT. In Abex-ome, nearly 50 percent of my scientific strength was built through this program over 4 years. And the rest 50 percent also could have been through the same if the timeline and management of the program was little more predictable.

The DBT team is extremely rich in technical knowledge since they en-tirely comprise of the best academicians in the country. But, they severely lack the market experience of requirements or processes. This is slowing down DBT’s success of contribution to the industry ■

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hubs of Technological Entrepreneurship

New Address for Biotech Pursuits in UP

Set up in 2005 on eight acres of land, the Lucknow Biotech Park is a meeting point of industry,

research institutes and the academia. The Park is essentially a technology incubator that offers incubation and development of bio business facilities to start-up companies. Running two of its facilities in the public private partner-ship (PPP) mode, it also offers a good example of the PPP model and how science, biotechnology and entrepre-neurship can be clubbed for the benefit of stakeholders and society at large.

Leveraging the human resource pool, knowledge base and facilities of the nearby CSIR and ICAR institutes, like Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research (IISR), Central Institute for Sub Tropical Horticulture (CISH), etc., the Park provides incubator facilities to start-ups to fine tune the technol-ogies, upscale production of biotech products to pilot plant scale, get quality assurance by using NABL accredited analytical service of the Park. It assists them in establishing biotech enterprises. The Park also provides consultancy for

established units to source elite planting material, biotech fertilizers and other inputs. Jointly set up by the DBT and Department of Science and Technology, Government of Uttar Pradesh, the Park has close to 50,000 sq.ft. air-conditioned area for bio-business and incubation facility apart from the Bio R&D units for the entrepreneurs for setting up their R&D and production facilities. An additional three acres of land has been leased out to biotech companies as build to suit space. The park has also developed 20,000 sq.ft. commercial wet lab building that accommodates nearly 18 wet lab suites.

Facilities under PPP modeTwo of its facilities, the Biofertilizer unit and the Tissue culture and Hardening facility are running successfully under the PPP mode. The Biofertilizer unit runs under public-private partnership with Hindustan Bioenergy and produc-es biofertilizers, biopesticides, organic fertilizers, plant growth promoters, micronutrient mixtures, etc. While the Tissue culture and Hardening facility at Biotech Park is spread over 2000 sq. ft. area having the capacity to raise and multiply Banana, Potato, bamboo plant-lets. Its capacity is 10,000 to 1,00,000 plants /batch and it can produce about 2 million plants/annum. Currently

BIOTECH COMPANIES AT THE LUCKNOW PARK

■ Aakaar Biotechnologies■ ABC Genomics (India) Pvt. Ltd.■ Acadia Research Lab. Pvt. Ltd.■ ACS Informatics Pvt. Ltd.■ Amor Herbals Pvt. Ltd.■ Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - POP■ Chandan Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.■ Chiara Naturals Pvt. Ltd.■ Genetech Biolabs Pvt. Ltd.■ Hindustan Bioenergy Ltd.■ India Pesticides Ltd.■ Lifecare Innovations Pvt. Ltd.■ Nuvivo Biosciences Pvt. Ltd.■ Sheel Biotech Ltd.■ SKIES Life Technologies Pvt. Ltd.■ Technology Parks of India■ Super Biofresh Pvt. Ltd.

There are around 150 Incubators and Science and Technology Parks currently functional in India. Both, the Central and State governments are setting up biotech parks, incubators as well as pilot projects to promote and encourage entrepreneurial ventures in biotechnology and provide a template for promo-tion of biotech start up companies. Some of the prominent Biotech parks include Alexandria Centre for Science and Innovation, Hyderabad; IKP Knowledge park, Hyderabad, International Biotech park, Pune; Lucknow Biotech Park, Lucknow; Golden Jubilee Biotech Park, Chennai and Ticel Bio Park also in Chennai. In order to gain an insight into the working of a biotech park and its role in entrepreneurship development, the case study of the Lucknow Biotech Park is being given here.

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the facility is leased out under public - private partnership to Sheel Biotech, New Delhi.

Jatropha genetic enhancement programThe Biotech Park is extending major support in providing the feedstock for the States biofuel program. The Park has developed an expertise in nurseries, cultivation and genetic enhancement of Jatropha curcas. It has two DBT sponsored R&D programs on Jatropha genetic enhancement. The Park also coordinates activity of 25 odd centres that receive funding from DBT for Jatropha R&D. It has raised several lakh saplings of Jatropha from selected mother stocks, which are available for the industry and farmers.

Honing entrepreneurship skillsThe Park is also providing a shot in the arm to the entrepreneur skills of scientists. It plays an important role in the initial establishment of start-up companies not only by way of provid-ing incubator and upscale facilities but also by providing information about possible business avenues; facilities and incentives available under the Government of India and State Gov-ernment Biotech policies, availability of special grants, schemes and loans as well as information about requirements for registration and obtaining IPR. The Park is currently nurturing about 17 entrepreneurs under its wings.

FacilitiesThe Biotech Park’s GLP/GMP com-plaint facilities include a Technology Incubation Centre with laboratory modules, common instrumentation facilities, biobusiness support centre, up scaling/processing of plant based lead molecules, tissue culture facility, pilot plants for biopesticides / biofertil-izers, hardening and macropropagation facilities, diagnostic development facility. The park also has common facilities for storage, common effluent treatment plant, incinerator and waste disposal system ■

about incentives available (like Service tax exemption) under Government biotech policies/grants, schemes for grants and loans, information and ad-vice about IPR. It provides facilities of solvent extraction, aqueous distillation, plant tissue culture and biofertilizers. The NABL accredited analytical and quality assurance unit of Park helps its companies and local institutions in product development, standardization and quality control. The Park also pro-vides common effluent treatment plant, uninterrupted power and water supply, conference hall, meeting rooms, cafe-teria, 24X7 hours security are the other few facilities provided by the park.

It is too early to have success stories as Park became fully function-al recently and most of the units are start-ups. Hindustan Bioenergy Ltd., the company working in the field of biofertilizers and biopesticides under Public Private Partnership with Biotech Park, has expanded its activities in 28 acres of land outside the Park. They have been instrumental in providing biofertilizer and biopesticides to usher organic cultivation in Uttar Pradesh and other States. Another success story is of raising tissue culture banana plants for the State. Biotech Park tissue culture facility is a lead tissue culture unit in the State which is functioning at commercial scale and serving UP. The production of tissue culture raised high quality G9 variety banana plants at the Park has led to reduction in price of banana plantlets from Rs 22 to Rs 14 per plant leading to increase in banana cultivation in the State.

Q. Do you see a shift in the mindset of researchers towards entrepreneur-ship?

A. There is a slow but gradual shift in the mindset of the students/re-searchers. Most of the researchers venturing into entrepreneurship are not fully aware about the value of the core strength, business plans and the emptive markets. There is a need of continued guidance.

“There is a gradual shift towards entreprneurship”

DR PK SEThCEO, Lucknow Biotech Park

In an interview, Dr PK Seth points out the opportunities at the Lucknow Biotech Park.

Q. How had the environment changed in the country towards biosciences entrepreneurship during the last decade?

A. The initiatives taken by the De-partment of Biotechnology, Govern-ment of India, States like Karnataka and professional bodies like ABLE & CII are bringing an enabling envi-ronment towards biosciences entre-preneurship during the last decade. Biotech Park and incubators set up by DBT and DST are also contributing to this change. DBT-BIRAC provides a great stimulus in this regard.

Q. What are the various oppor-tunities /facilities that the Biotech Park offers to a start up? How many success stories have emerged from the park?

A. Besides offering ready to use laboratories of different sizes to suit the need of a start up, shared facilities etc., the Park provides single window service and useful guidance to them. This includes information on business avenues based on the facilities at the incubator centre; sourcing of tech-nologies and facilities available with R&D institutions/Universities/medi-cal institutions, access to expertise of accomplished scientists, information

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Contact:Dr. Suman Govil, Adviser, HRD Division

Department of Biotechnology (Ministry of Science & Technology) 6th Floor, Room No. 606, Block-2, CGO Complex, Lodi Road,New Delhi-110003 | Telefax : 011-24369610 | Email : [email protected]

“PRODUCING INDUSTRY READY MANPOWER IN BIOTECHNOLOGY”

Institutes PROFILES

Acharya N.G. Ranga Agriculture University

Type: Public (State University)

Year of Setup: 1964

Courses: B. Sc. (Ag.), B. Tech. (Food Sci.), B. Tech. (Ag. Engg.),B. Tech. (Ag. Engg.),M. Sc. Ag. Biotechnology, M. Sc. Food Science & Technology, M. Sc. Environmental Science and Technolo-gy, M.Tech Ag. Engg., Ph. D. Agricul-ture(in various desplines)

Contact Person: Dr. T.V.K. Singh (Dean of agriculture)

Email: [email protected],[email protected]

Phone: 040-24014050

Address: Acharya N G Ranga Agri-cultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500030, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.angrau.ac.in

Type: Private

Affiliation: J.N.T. University

Approved: AICTE and PCI

Year of Setup: 1995

Courses: B.Pharm and M. Pharm

Contact Person: Dr. Talasila E.G.K. Murthy( principal)

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 09912342094, 08643-223202, 08643-224144

Address: Bapatla, Guntur (District),Bapatla-522101, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.bcop.ac.in

Bapatla College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: JNTAU, Andhra Pradesh

Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 2003

Courses: D. Pharmacy; B. Pharmacy; M.Pharmacy (Pharmaceutics, Phar-maceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Analysis & Quality Assurance,Pharma-cology, Pharmaceutical Technology,-Pharmaceutical Analysis), Pharmaceu-tics (Drug Regulatory Affairs), Pharm. D (Doctorial in Pharmacy), Pharm. D (P.B), Ph.D

Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Chakka Gopinath (Principal)

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Phone: 08565-251865

Address: Annamacharya College of Pharmacy, New-boyanapalli, Rajampet-516126, YSR District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.ancpap.in

Annamacharya College of Pharmacy

Andhra University


Accreditation: NAAC ‘A’

Courses: B.Tech. Biotechnology, M.Tech. Bio-informatics, M.Tech. Bio-medical Engineering), M.S. Molecular Biology and Biotechnol-ogy, M.Tech. Bio-technology, M.Sc. Biochemistry, Biotechnology,Agri-cultural Biotechnology,Microbiology Botany,Zoology, B. Pharmacy,M. Pharmacy,Pharma.D


Phone: 0891-2575464, 2844222

Address:Andhra University, Visakhapatnam-530003, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.andhrauniversity.edu.in

Acharya Nagarjuna University


Accreditation: ‘B’ Grade by NAAC

Year of Setup: 1976

Courses: M.Sc. Zoology, Bio-chemistry, Biotechnology, Botany, Microbiology, Nano-Biotechnology, Nano-Technology, M.Tech Biotech-nology

Contact Person: Prof. C. Rambabu (Principal, University College of Sciences)

Phone: 0863-2346170 /600, 0863-22346114

Address: Acharya Nagarjuna Univer-sity, Nagarjuna Nagar, Guntur-522510, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.nagarjunauniversity.ac.in

Adikavi Nannaya University


Year of Setup: 2006

Courses: M.Sc Zoology (Animal Biology and Biotechnology); M.S. Biotechnology (5-year integrated program); M.S. Microbiology. (5-year integrated program); Ph.D in Life and Health Sciences

Contact Person: Dr A Matta Reddy, Associate Professor & Head of the Department


Phone: 0883-2472617

Address: Adikavi Nannaya University24-09-3, R V Nagar, Rajahmun-dry-533105, Andhra Pradesh,India

Website: www.nannayauniversity.info

Andhra Pradesh


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Bharat Institute of Technology-Pharmacy

Gokaraju Rangaraju College of Pharmacy

Food and Drug Toxicolo-gy Research Centre

Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology

G. Pulla Reddy College of Pharmacy

Care College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Jawaharlal Nehru Techno-logical University (JNTU), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh


Year of Setup: 1999

Courses: B Pharmacy; M Pharma-cy –Pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, Pharmaceutical Analysis & quality assurance , pharmacology, Hospital & clinical pharmacyPharm.D; Post baccalaureate

Contact Person: Dr.Lakshmi Sivasu-bramanian (Principal)


Phone: 08414-252265

Website: www.bitpharmacy.com

Type: Private

Affiliation: Osmania University


Year of Setup: 2003

Courses: B.Pharmacy & M. Pharmacy courses in pharmaceutics, pharmaceu-tical chemistry, pharmaceutical analy-sis & quality assurance and industrial pharmacy

Contact Person: Dr. C.V.S. Subrah-manyam(Principal)


Phone: 040-32912927, 040-2304 8800

Address: Gokaraju Rangaraju College of Pharmacy, Nizampet Road, Bach-upally, Hyderabad-500090, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.grcp.ac.in

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1978

Courses: Research in fungal toxins, pesticide residues, food additives, heavy metals, pharmacokinetics, diet & chronic degenerative disorders and nutrient-drug interactions. The Centre is also engaged in environmental monitoring as well as biomonitoring to study human exposures to carcinogens/toxins in the environment and their biological impact.

Contact Person: Dr.(Mrs) Kalpagam Polasa (Principal)

Phone: 040-27197200

Address: Food and Drug Toxicology Research Centre, National Institute of Nutrition, Jamai-Osmania, Hyder-abad-500007, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.ninindia.org

Type: Private

Affiliation: JNTUH, Hyderabad

Approved: AICTE

Accreditation: ‘A’ from NAAC

Year of Setup: 2002

Courses: B.Tech in Biotechnology


Phone: 042-95226000

Address: Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nizampet Road, Bachupally, Kukatpally, Hyderabad- 500090, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.griet.ac.in

Type: Private

Affiliation: O.U. Hyderabad

Approved: AICTE AND PCI, New Delhi

Year of Setup: 1994-95

Courses: B. Pharm; M. Pharm; Ph.D

Contact Person: Dr. B.Madhava (Principal)

Email: [email protected] , [email protected]

Phone: 040-23515513, 040-23517222

Address: G.Pulla Reddy College of Pharmacy, opposite Pilar no. 23 (pvnr express highway), Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad, India

Website: www.gprcp.ac.in

Type: Private

Affiliation: Kakatiya University, Vidyaranyapuri


Courses: B.Pharmacy; M.Pharmacy (Pharmaceutis, Pharmaceutical Analy-sis & Pharmacology); Pharm. D

Contact Person: Dr. P. Manjula(Principal)


Phone: 9441640437,9866503925,8125352044, 9490109074

Address: Care college of Pharmacy, Oglapur (vill), Atmakur (Mandal),Warangal-506006, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.carecollege.com

Andhra Pradesh


Institutes PROFILES

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Hindu College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur


Year of Setup: 1999

Courses: B.Pharm, M.Pharm, D.Pharm


Phone: 0863-2221935, 0863-2217783

Address: Hindu College of Pharmacy, Amaravathi Road, Guntur-522002,Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.hcopgnt.com


Accreditation: ‘A’ Grade by NAAC

Year of Setup: 1976

Courses: B.Sc, M.Sc, B.Pharma , M.Pharm


Phone: 870-2438022, 2432911, 2461488, 2446377

Address: Kakatiya University, NH 7, Warangal-506009, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.kakatiya.ac.in

Kakatiya University


Approved: ‘A’ Grade by NAAC

Accreditation: M.Tech, PhD(Biotechnology)

Courses: Mr. Saida Naik L (Assistant Professor & Head)


Phone: 040-23158661 - 8664.

Address: Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kukatpally, Hyderabad-500 085, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.jntuh.ac.in

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Type: Public (Autonomous University)

Courses: M.Tech and Ph.D in Bioinformatics

Contact Person: Prof. P. J. Narayanan (Director)

Email: [email protected],[email protected],[email protected]

Phone: 040-66531000

Address: International Institute of Information Technology, Gachibowli, Hyderabad-500032, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.iiit.ac.in

Indian Institute of Chemical Technology

Type: Public

Affiliation: CSIR, New Delhi

Year of Setup: 1944

Courses: Research Institute in the area of Chemical Sciences and main areas are: Analytical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Energy & Environment, Engineering Sciences, Inorganic & Physical Chemistry, Lipids Science and Technology, Organic Chemical Scienc-es, Polymers and Functional Material; Provide PhD programs

Contact Person: Dr. (Ms.) M. Lakshmi Kantam (Director )


Phone: 040-27193030

Address: IICT, Hyderabad-500 607, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.iictindia.org

Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 2007

Courses: Research in biology and chemistry and PhD prgrams

Contact Person: Dr. A. Venkateswarlu(Director)


Phone: 040-66571500

Address: Dr. Reddy’s Institute of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad Campus Gachibowli, Hyderabad-500 046, Andhra Pradesh India.

Website: www.ilsresearch.org

Andhra Pradesh


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KVSR Siddhartha College of Pharmaceutical Sciences

National Centre for Management of Agricultural Extension

Malineni Lakshmaiah College of Pharmacy

National Institute of Nutrition (NIN)

National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM)

Maharajah’s Post-Graduate College

Type: Private

Affiliation: Acharya Nagarjuna University


Year of Setup: 1994

Courses: B.Pharm, M.Pharm, Pharm D

Contact Person: Dr.G.Devala Rao(Professor & Principal)

Phone: 0866-2479775, 0866-2493347

Address: KVSR Siddhartha College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Siddhartha Nagar,Vijayawada-520010, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.kvsrsiddharthapharma.edu.in

Type: Public (Autonomous Institute)

Year of Setup: 1987

Courses: Provide post graduate diploma in Agri business manage-ment

Contact Person: Shri. B. Srinivas (Director)


Phone: 040-24016702-709

Address: National Institute of Agricul-tural Extension Management (MAN-AGE), Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500 030, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.manage.gov.in

Type: Private

Affiliation: Acharya Nagarjuna University

Year of Setup: 1999

Courses: B.Pharm, D.Pharm

Contact Person: Dr. Pallerla Bhaskar


Phone: 08598-237345

Address: Malineni Lakshmaiah COllege of Pharmacy, Kanumalla, Prakasam, Singarayakonda-523101, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.malinenicolleges.ac.in

Type: Public

Approved: Recognized by many national and international agencies as Centre for conducting advanced as well as ad-hoc training courses in nu-tritionand laboratory animal sciences

Year of Setup: 1969

Courses: Ph.D programs

Contact Person: Dr.(Mrs) Kalpagam Polasa (Director)


Phone: 040-27018083

Address: National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad-500007, Andhra Pradesh, India


Type: Public

Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 1976

Courses: Innovative training and research programmes in the specialized areas of Agricultural Research and Education Management; Post Graduate Diploma in Management-Agriculture (PGDMA); PG Diploma in Technology Management in Agriculture (PGD-TMA)

Contact Person: Dr Surender Lal Goswami(director)


Phone: 040-24581300, 040-24581444

Address: NAARM, Rajendranagar, Hy-derabad-500407, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.naarm.ernet.in

Type: Private

Affiliation: Andhra University, Visakhapatnam

Accreditation: ‘A’ grade by NAAC

Year of Setup: 2008

Courses: M.Sc biotechnology

Contact Person: Prof. K. Hanuman-tha Rao (Principal)

Phone: 08922-224295

Address: Maharajah’s Post Graduate College, Phool Baugh, Vizianagaram District-535002, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.mrpgcollege.org

Andhra Pradesh


Institutes PROFILES

Nizam College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)

Supported in Year: 2008

Accreditation: “A” Grade by NAAC

Supported Departments: Genetics, Biotechnology and Microbiology

Contact Person: Prof. Naidu Ashok(Principal)


Phone: 040-23234231

Address: Nizam College, Basheerbagh, Hyderabad-500001, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.nizamcollege.ac.in

National Research Centre for Oil Palm

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1995

Courses: Conducting and coordinat-ing research on all aspects of oil palm conservation, improvement, produc-tion, protection, post-harvest technol-ogy and transfer of technology.

Contact Person: Dr. M.K. Nair(Director)


Phone: 08812-259532, 08812-259524

Address: National research Centre for Oil Plan, Directorate of Oil Palm Research, Pedavegi-534450,WestGodavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.dopr.gov.in

Osmania University

Type: Public ( State University)


Year of Setup: 1918

Courses: (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. Degrees


Phone: 040-27682363

Address: Osmania University,Admin-istrative Building, Osmania University Campus, Hyderabad-500007, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.osmania.ac.in

Type: Private

Affiliation: JNTUA, Andhra Pradesh


Courses: Diploma in Pharmacy (D. Pharm); Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm); Master of Pharmacy (M. Pharm); Pharmaceutical Analysis and quality Assurance; Pharmaceutic; Phar-macology; Pharmacy Practice; Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm. D) and Pharm D (PB); Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D - Full-Time) in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Contact Person:Dr.Y. Padmanabha Reddy (Principal )


Phone: 08554-255646, 08554-255548

Address: K R Palli Cross, Near SK University Anantapur District- 515 721, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.riper.ac.in

Raghavendhra Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & ResearchType: Private

Affiliation: Affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai

Approved: Pharmacy Council of India, AICTE, Indian Nursing Council, lAP, New Delhi

Year of Setup: 1992

Courses: Diploma in Pharmacy (D. Pharm.); Bachelor of Pharmacy (B. Pharm.); Master of Pharmacy (M. Pharm) (Pharmacology, Phar-maceutics, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacy Practice)

Contact Person: Prof. D.Ranganayaku-lu (Principal)


Phone: 0877-3247670,2237670

Address: Sri Padmavathi School of Pharmacy, Mohan Gardens, Vaishnavi Nagar, Tiruchanoor, Tirupathi

Website: www.sapthagirigroup.com

Padmavathi College of Pharmacy

P. Rami Reddy Memorial College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: JNT University, Hyderabad

Approved: PCI and AICTE New Del-hi, Govt of A.P.

Year of Setup: 1997

Courses: B.Pharmacy

Contact Person: Sreenivasulu. M(Principal)


Phone: 91-08562- 246212, 91-9346284850, 9390046015

Address: P. R. R. M. College Of Phar-macy, 1-35, Prakruthinagar, Utukur, Kadapa-516003, YSR District,Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.prrmcp.org

Andhra Pradesh


InstitutesPROFILES

Shri Vishnu College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Andhra University, Visakhapatnam

Approved: AICTE, New Delhi

Year of Setup: 1997

Courses: B.Pharmacy, Pharm.D and M.Pharmacy.

Contact Person: Dr.K.Prasad (Prin-cipal)


Phone: 08816-250863

Address: Shri Vishnu College of Pharmacy, C/o Shri Vishnu Educational Society, Vishnupur, Bhimavaram-534201,West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.svcp.edu.in

Type: Private

Affiliation: Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Approved: AICTE, PCI, New Delhi & Govt. of A.P.

Year of Setup: 1997

Courses: Diploma in Pharmacy; Bach-elor of Pharmacy; Master of Pharmacy (Pharmaceutics); Master of Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Analysis); Master of Pharmacy (Pharmacology); Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D); Pharm-D (Post-Baccalaureate)

Contact Person: Dr.Panuganti Balraj


Phone: 08542-247420, 09848126763

Address: Seshadrinagar, Mahabub-nagar-509001, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.ssrcp.com

Type: Private

Approved: AICTE& PCI

Year of Setup: 1994

Courses: B.Pharma, M.Pharm(Phar-macology, Phartmaceutics, Pharma Analysis & Quality Assurance, Medic-inal Chemistry, Pharma Management & Regulatory Affairs)

Contact Person: Dr. Khaja Pasha (Principal)


Phone: 040-24198012, 040-65221764

Address: Shadan College of Pharmacy, Peerancheru,Himayat Sagar Road,Hyderabad-500008, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.shadanpharma.com

Shadan College of Pharmacy

Smt. Sarojini Ramulam-ma College of Pharmacy

Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur

Sree Vidyanikethan College of Pharmacy


Year of Setup: 1981

Courses: B.Sc(Biochemistry-Biotechnolog-Microbiology, Botany-Zoology-Chemistry); B.Tech. And M.Phil & Ph.D. Biotechnology

Contact Person: Prof. R.R. Venkata Raju(HOD)


Phone: 08554-255703(O), 08554-272139(R)

Address: Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur-515003,Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.skuniversity.org

Type: Private

Affiliation: Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 2004

Courses: B Pharma

Contact Person: Dr. C.K. Ashok Kumar(Principal)


Phone: 0877-2236716, 0877-2236717

Address: Sree Vidyanikethan College of Pharmacy, Sree Sainath Nagar, Tirupati, A.Ranganpet-517102,Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.vidyanikethan.edu

Sri Padmavathi Mahila Visvavidyalayam,Tirupati (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Year of Support by DBT: 2003-04

Courses: M.Sc. General Biotechnology

Sanctioned Student Intake: 15

Mode of Admission: JNU-Common Entrance Test (CET)

No. of Faculty Members: 16

Contact Person: Dr. R. Usha (Associate Professor)


Phone: 0877-2284529, 0877-2100027

Address: Deptt. Of Biotechnology, Sri Padmavathi Mahila Visvavidy-alayam, Tirupat-517502, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.spmvv.ac.in

Andhra Pradesh


Institutes PROFILES

Type: Private

Affiliation: Kakatiya University


Courses: B.Pharm, M. Pharm

Contact Person: Mr. K. Sudheer Kumar(principal)

Email: [email protected],

Phone: 0870-3255522, 0870-2433700

Address: Sri Shivani College of Phar-macy, No. 22-07-96/1 Site No.45-48, Mulugu Road ,Near Doctor’s Colo-nyDist :Warangal-506007, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.sscpwgl.com

Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering Technology

Sri Padmavathi School of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur

Courses: B Pharm, M Pharm-Pharma-cology, Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacy Practice, Pharm.D (Post baccalaureate)

Contact Person: Prof. D.Ranganayaku-lu(Principal)


Phone: 0877-2237670

Address: Sri Padmavathi School of Pharmcy, Mohan gardens, Behind R.K. Kalyanamandapam, Vaishnavi Nagar,Tiruchanoor(P)-517503 , Tirupati, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.sripadmavathicolleges.com

Type: Private

Affiliation: Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad.

Approved: ICTE, Pharmacy Council of India

Year of Setup: 1997

Courses: B-Pharm, M-Pharm( Quality Assurance, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmaceutics

Contact person: Dr. Anupama Koneru(Principal)

Email: [email protected] [email protected]

Phone: 040-23280222, 040-23280233

Address: Sultan-ul-Uloom College of Pharmacy, Mount Pleasant, 8-2-249 Road no.3, Banjara Hills, Hyder-abad-500034, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.sultanuloompharmacy.ac.in

Sultan-ul-Uloom College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Kakatiya University,

Year of Setup: 1995

Courses: B.Pharmacy, M.Pharm (Pharmaceutics, Industrial Pharmacy, Pharmacology, Pharma Analysis), Pharm D, Pharm D (PB)

Contact Person: Dr.B.Suresh (Principal)


Phone: 870-2567303

Address: St.Peter’s Institute of Phar-maceutical Sciences, 2-4-1211,Vidy-anagar,Hanamkonda,Waran-gal-506001, Andhra Pradesh,India

Website: www.stpeters.in

St. Peter’s Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Type: Private

Affiliation: Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Approved: AICTE

Accreditation: NAAC accredited

Year of Setup: 1998

Contact Person: Dr. M. Muralidhar (Principal )

Email: [email protected], [email protected],

Phone: 09581993399, 08572-246339, 245044

Address: Sri Venkateswara Col-lege of Engineering & Technology, R.V.S. Nagar, Tirupati Road, Chit-toor-517127, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.svce.ac.in

Sri Sathya Sai Insti-tute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam

Type: Private(Autonomous University)

Courses: Undergraduate: B.Sc.(Hons.) in Biosciences; Postgraduate: M.Sc. Biosciences with specialization in either: (a)Biotechnology or (b)Mycology and Plant Pathology; Research: M.Phil., Ph.D.

Contact Person: Dr. B S Vijayakumar (HOD)


Phone: 08555-287239

Address: Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (Deemed to be University),Vidyagiri, Prasanthi Nilayam-515134, Anantapur Dist., Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.sssihl.edu.in

Sri Shivani College of Pharmacy

Andhra Pradesh


Institutes PROFILES

University Arts and Science College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)

Talla Padmavathi College of Pharmacy

The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics

The National Centre for Laboratory Animal Sciences

The Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology

Type: Public (Autonomous Organi-zation funded by the Department of Biotechnology)

Affiliation: University of Hyderabad

Courses: Ph.D. program

Contact Person: Dr. Gowrishankar J (Director)


Phone: 040-24749445, 040-24749446

Address: Center for DNA Finger-printing and Diagnostics [CDFD] Bldg. 7, Gruhakalpa, 5-4-399 / B, Nampally,Hyderabad-500001, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.cdfd.org.in

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1976

Courses: Established for spreading knowledge on the care, breeding, management and experimentation using laboratory animals in biomedi-cal research

Contact Person: Dr.(Mrs) Kalpagam Polasa (Director)

Phone: 040 -27197201

Address: National Centre for Labora-tory Animal Science, National Institute of Nutrition, Jamai-Osmania Hyder-abad-500007, Andhra Pradesh, India


Type: Public(Autonomous Centre)

Courses: Basic Research, Biomedi-cine and Biotechnology, Genetics & Evolution, Genomics, Cell Biology & Development,Molecular Biology and Structural Biology, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Infectious Diseases, Com-putational Biology & Bioinformatics, Ph.D

Phone: 27160222-31, 040-27160232-41

Address: Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Habsiguda, Uppal Road, Hyderabad-500007, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.ccmb.res.in

Type: Private

Affiliation: The Kakatiya University

Year of Setup: 1997

Courses: B. Pharmacy, M. Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Chemistry ( Pharma-cology-Pharmaceutical Analysis-Phar-maceutics-Industrial Pharmacy), Pharm. D

Contact Person: Dr. J. Venkateshwar Rao(Principal)


Phone: 0919849945165, 08702434057

Address: Talla Padmavathi College of Pharmacy,Orus, Kareemabad, Waran-gal 506012, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.tallapadmavathiphar-ma.com


Accreditation: A Grade by NAAC

Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology

Contact Person: Prof. M. Rajagopal-achary(Principal & Coordinator)


Phone: 0870-2455591

Address: University Arts and Science College, Subedari,Warangal-506001, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.uascku.org

University of Hyderabad (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Prof. Prakash Babu (Co-ordinator)


Phone: 040-23134571, 040-23000654

Address: Laboratory for Molecular Therapeutics, Deptt. of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences,University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500046, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.uohyd.ac.in

Andhra Pradesh


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Assam Agricultural University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: M.V.Sc.(Animal Biotechnology)


Mode of Admission: University Exam


Contact Person: Dr. Prabodh Borah (Coordinator)


Phone: 0361-2229688, 0361-2334990

Address: Deptt. of Veterinary Microbiology, College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agricultural Univer-sity, Khanapura, Guwahati-781022, Assam, India

Website: www.aau.ac.in

Assam Agricultural University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: M.Sc. (Agricultural Biotechnology)




Contact Person: Dr. Mahendra Kumar Modi (Associate Prof. & Head Coordinator)


Phone: 0376-2340095, 0376-2340101, 0376-2310842

Address: Assam Agricultural University, Deptartment of Agricultural Biotechnology, Jorhat-785013, Assam, India

Website: www.aau.ac.in

Vaagdevi College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Kakatiya University, Warangal

Approved: AICTE & PCI

Courses: B. Pharm., M. Pharm, Phar-maceutics, Pharmacology, Medicinal chemistry, Pharmacognosy & Phyto-chemistry,Pharmaceutical Analysis, Pharmacy Practice and Pharm .D

Contact Person: Dr. Challa Srinivas Reddy(Principal)


Phone: 0870-2455111, 144

Address: Ramnagar, Hanamkonda,Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India

Website: www.vaagdevipharmacy.com

Type: Public (Central University)

Year of Setup: 1994

Courses: M.Sc. and Ph.D (Botony,Zoology, Microbiology, Biotechnol-ogy)

Contact Person: Prof. Devashish Kar (Dean)


Phone: 03842-270806

Address: Assam University, Sil-char-788 011, Assam, India

Website: www.aus.ac.in

Assam University

Rajiv Gandhi University


Year of Setup: 1984

Courses: Undergraduate and Post-graduate programs in Botany and Zoology

Contact Person: Prof. R. K. Singh, Head, Department of Botany


Phone: 0360-2277253

Address: Rajiv Gandhi Universi-ty, Rono Hills, Doimukh-791112, Arunachal Pradesh, India

Website: www.rgu.ac.in

Arunachal Pradesh AssamAndhra Pradesh

B. Barooah College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: Dr. Dinesh Baishya(Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Kamal Choudhury (Associate Professor, Department of Zoology)


Phone: 03612525538

Address: B. Barooah College, Guwahati-781007, Assam, India

Website: www.bborooahcollege.co.in


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Indian Institute of Tech-nology, Guwahati (DBT support-ed Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: M.Tech. Biochem. Engg. & Biotechnology

Sanctioned student intake: 20

Mode of admission: GATE

No. of faculty members: 22

Contact Person: Dr. Arun Goyal (Coordinator & Head)


Phone: 0361-2582208

Address: Department of Biotechnol-ogy, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati-781039, Assam, India

Website: www.iitg.ernet.in

Gauhati UniversityDibrugarh University

Type: Public(State University)

Accreditation: NAAC

Year of Setup: 1993

Courses: M.Sc. in Animal Ecology & Wild life Biology, Zoology, Botany, Biotechnology, Ph.D programs

Contact Person: Arun Kumar Handique (Professor)

Phone: 0361-2700231

Address: Gauhati University,Guwahati-781014, Assam, India

Website: www.gauhati.ac.in


Year of Setup: 1965

Courses: M.Sc. in Biotechnology, PhD in Biotechnology, Post-Doctoral in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. R. N. S. Yadav(Director-in-charge)


Phone: 0373-2371015

Address: Centre for Studies in Biotechnology, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh-786004, Assam, India

Website: www.dibru.ac.in

AssamDarrang College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Botany, Chemistry, Physics, Zoology, Biotech-nology and Computer Science

Contact Person: Dr. Joysankar Hazarika (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Ms. Manika Das Kataki (Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Biotechnology)

Email: [email protected],[email protected], [email protected]

Phone: 0371-2220014, 0371-255078

Address: Darrang College, Tezpur, Sonitpur-784001, Assam, India

Website: www.darrangcollege.in

Goalpara College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: Dr. K.A. Ahmed (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Dan-dadhar Sarma (Associate Professor, Department of Zoology)


Phone: 03663-240046, 03663-2240254

Address: Goalpara College, P. O. Goalpara, Dist. Goalpara-783101, Assam, India

Website: goalparacollege.org


Supported Departments: Botany and Zoology

Contact Person: Dr. H. K. Chaliha (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Basistha Kalita

Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Phone: 03672-276535

Address: Kaliabor College, P.O. Kuwartol-782137, Assam, India

Website: kaliaborcollege.org

Kaliabor College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


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Nowgong College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: Dr. Khargeswar Bhuyan (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Farishta Yasmin (Assistant Professor)


Phone: 03672-235640

Address: Nowgong College, P.O & Dist. Nagaon State-782001, Assam, India

Website: www.nowgongcollege.org

Karimganj College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Botany, Biotechnology, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics and Computer Science

Contact Person: Dr. R. Chakraborty (Principal)

Programme Coordinator:Dr. Mari-nalKantiBhattacharya(Coordinator, Selection Gr. Lecturer,Deptt. Of Botany & Biotech)


Phone: 03843-267043

Address: Karimganj College , Karimganj-788710, Assam, India

Website: www.karimganjcollege.org.in

Pub Kamrup College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Microbi-ology, Biotechnology and Mathematics

Contact Person: Dr. Renu Bhattarcharya (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Dipak Konwar (Assistant Professor, Department of Botany)


Phone: 03621-286300

Address: Pub Kamrup College, P.O. Baithatia Chariale Dist.,Kamrup-781381, Assam, India

Website: www.pubkamrupcollege.org

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1982

Courses: Thrust areas of research, Mosquito borne diseases, Drug abuse and HIV, Food borne parasitic diseas-es, Haemoglobinopathies

Contact Person: DR. J. Mahanta (Director)


Phone: 0373-2381494

Address: Regional Medical Research Centre, Post Box No. 105, Dibru-garh-78600, Assam, India

Website: www.rmrcne.org.in

Regional Medical Research Centre

North East Institute of Science & Technology

Type: Public

Courses: Biotech related programs

Contact Person: Dr D Ramaiah, FASc (Director)


Phone: 0376-2370653

Address: North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat-785006, Assam, India

Website: www.rrljorhat.res.in

Assam

Srikishan Sharda College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Zoology, Mathematics and Statistics

Contact Person: Sri Abhijit Nath (Coordinator, Department of Chemistry)


Phone: 03844-222409

Address: SrikishanSharda College, College Road, Hailakandi-788151,Assam, India

Website: www.sharadadedcollege.in


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Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Accreditation: NAAC Accredited

Courses: M.Sc. (General Biotechnol-ogy)




Contact Person: Prof. M. M. Prasad(Head & Coordinator)


Phone: 0641-2620094

Address: PG Department of Biotechnology, T.M. Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur-812 007,Bihar, India

Website: www.tmbu.org

Tezpur University(DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Dr. S. Baruah (Head & Coordinator)


Phone: 03712-267008 / 9

Address: Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Napaam,Tezpur University, P.B. 72, P.O. Tezpur-784028, Assam, India

Website: www.tezu.ernet.in

BiharLalit Narayan Mithila University


Year of Setup: 1972

Courses: B.Sc.

Contact Person: Indra Nath Mishra (HOD)


Phone: 06272-222463

Address: Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Kameshwar Nagar, Darbhanga-846008, Bihar, India

Website: www.lnmu.in

Bihar College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Magadh University, Bodh Gaya

Approved: AICTE, PCI, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India, New Delhi & Deptt. of Health, Govt. of Bihar

Year of Setup: 1979

Courses: B.Pharm., M.Pharm.(Pharma), D. Pharm.

Contact Person: Dr. B. Bhattacharya (Principal)


Phone: 06115-234354

Address: Bihar College of Pharmacy, New Bailey Road, Patna-801503, Bihar, India

Website: www.biharcollegeofpharmacy.com

Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: M.Sc. (Agricultural Biotechnology)




Contact Person: Dr. V.K. Shahi (Prof. & Dean)


Phone: 06274-240255

Address: Deptt. of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur)-848125, Bihar, India

Website: www.pusavarsity.org.in

Assam


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Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences (Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Biochem-istry, Bio-medical Science, Food Technology and Microbiology

Contact Person: Dr. Jai Prakash (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Shalini Sehgal (Associate Professor, Deptt.of Food Technology)

Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Phone: 011-25087597

Address: Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, (University of Delhi), Sector-2, Phase -I Dwarka, New Delhi-110075, India

Website: www.bcas.du.ac.in

Govt. V.Y.T.P.G College(Autonomous) (Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Biotechnology and Microbiology


Contact Person: Dr. P.C Choubey(Principal)

Email:[email protected],www.govtsciencecollegedurg.ac.in

Phone: 0788-2211688, 0788-2212030

Address: Govt. V.Y.T.P.G College, (Autonomous) G.E Road Durg-491001, Chhattisgarh, India

Website: govtsciencecollegedurg.ac.in

Indira Gandhi Agricultur-al University(DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: M.Sc.(Agricultural Biotechnology)


Mode of Admission: JNU-Common Entrance Test (CET) & University Exam


Contact Person: Prof. S.B. Verulkar (Head)


Phone: 0771-2442069, 0771-2444133

Address: Deptt. Of Plant Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur-492006, Chhattisgarh, India

Website: www.igau.edu.in

Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya

Type: Central University

Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: Integrated UG/PG in Botony, Biotechnology, Zoology, M.Sc. Biotechnology, Botony, Zoology, Ph.D

Contact Person: Dr. S. K. Chaturvedi (Dean)


Phone: 07752- 260204

Address: Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidya-laya, Koni, Bilaspur-495009, Chhattisgarh, India

Website: www.ggu.ac.in

Type: Public

Accreditation: B Grade by NAAC

Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 1977

Courses: Postgraduate degrees MS.c in Bioscience, Microbiology and Biochemistry, Five-Year Integrated M.Sc. Course in Bioscience and Mi-crobiology, M.Phil. (Bioscience) and Ph.D., B.Pharma, M.pharma, Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Science

Contact Person: Dr.(Mrs.) Swarnlata Saraf(HOD) Pharmaceutics


Phone: 0771-2263773

Address: Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Amanaka G.E.Road, Raipur-492010, Chhatisgarh, India

Website: www.prsu.ac.in

Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University

Chhattisgarh DelhiAll India Institute of Medical Sciences (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: Masters in Medical Biotechnology


Mode of Admission: Institute Exam


Contact Person: Prof. Y.D. Sharma(Prof. & Head, Coordinator Deptt.of Biotechnology)


Phone: 011-26588145, 011-26594609

Address: Department of Biotech-nology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110 029, India

Website: www.aiims.edu


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Contact Person: Prof (Dr) Vinay Kumar Srivastava (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. P.K. Sinha (Associate Professor, Deptt. of Zoology), Dr. Anuradha Sharma (Associate Professor, Deptt. of Botany)


Phone: 011-27667184

Address: Hindu College, University of Delhi, University Inclave, Delhi-110017, India

Website: www.hinducollege.org

Hindu College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)

Hans Raj College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Botany, Physics & Electronics, Zoology and Chemistry

Contact Person: Dr. V.K. Kawatra (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Archana Singh (Associate Professor, Deptt.of Botany)


Phone: 011-276667747, 011-27667458

Address: Hans Raj College, Mahatma Hans Raj College Marg, Malka Ganj, New Delhi-110007, India

Website: www.hansrajcollege.co.in

Gargi College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Microbiology

Contact Person: Dr. Meera Ramchan-dran (Principal& Coordinator)


Phone: 011-26491490, 011-26494544

Address: Gargi College, Sri Fort Road, New Delhi-110049, India

Website: www.gargi.du.ac.in


Supported Departments: Biochemis-try, Botany, Chemistry and Zoology

Contact Person: Dr. Renu Dinkar (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. K. Nirmala (Associate Professor)


Phone: 011-27667863

Address: Daulat Ram College for Women, 4, Patel Marg, Maurice Nagar, Delhi University, New Delhi-110007, India

Website: www.daulatramcollege.in

Daulat Ram College for Women(Under DBT Star College Scheme)

DelhiDelhi Technological University

Type: Government University

Courses: B.Tech Biotechnology, M.Tech Bioinformatics

Contact Person: Dr. Bansi Malhotra (Professor & HOD)


Phone: 011-27871043

Address: Delhi Technological Univer-sity, Shahbad Daulatpur, Main Bawana Road, Delhi-110042, India

Website: www.dce.edu

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1998

Courses: B.Tech./M.Tech.(Biotechnol-ogy), M.Tech.(Food Processing)

Contact Person: Prof. P.C. Sharma (Professor & Dean University School of Biotechnology)


Phone: 011-25302301/04

Address: University School of Biotechnology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Dwarka, Sector-16C, Delhi-110075, India

Website: ww.ipu.ac.in


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Indian Institute of Technology (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)




Mode of Admission: GATE


Contact Person: Prof. T.R. Sreekrishnan


Phone: 011-26596109, 011-26591014

Address: Deptt. of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, India

Website: www.iitd.ac.in

DelhiInstitute of Genomics & Integrative Biology

Institute of Human Be-haviour & Allied Sciences

Type: Public

Affiliation: CSIR

Courses: Research of National importance in the areas of Genomics, Molecular Medicine, Bioinformatics, Proteomics and Environmental Biotechnology, PhD Programs

Contact Person: Rajesh S. Gokhale(Director)


Phone: 011-2766 6157

Address: Near Jubilee Hall, Mall Road, New Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Kamla Nehru Ridge, Civil Lines, New Delhi-110007, India

Website: www.igib.res.in

Type: Public (Autonomous Body)

Approved: Approved under the Soci-eties Act. Minister for Health, Govt. of NCT of Delhi is the President and Chief Secretary

Year of Setup: 1993

Courses: MD Psychiatry, DM Neurol-ogy, M. Phil., DNB Neurology

Email: ihbas.delhigovt.nic.in, [email protected]

Phone: 011-22114021, 22114029, 22583056, 22583322

Address: Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Sciences, Post Box No. 9520, Jhilmil, Dilshad Garden, New Delhi-110095, India

Website: www.delhi.gov.in

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Type: An international, nonprofit research organization. Established as a special project of UNIDO.

Courses: Pre-doctoral fellowships and the International PhD program


Phone: 011-26741358

Address: ICGEB Campus, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi-110 067, New Delhi

Website: www.icgeb.org

Type: Deemed University


Approved: AICTE in 1996

Year of Setup: 1973

Courses: B.Pharm, M.Pharm(Pharmacy Practice, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Quality Assurance), Ph.D.


Phone: 011-2605 9688

Address: Mehrauli Badarpur Rd, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi-110062, India

Website: www.jamiahamdard.edu

Jamia Hamadard Pharmacy


Year of Setup: 1920

Courses: Ph.D.(Biotechnology), M.Sc.(Biochemistry)(S.F.), M.Sc.(Bioinformatics)(Self Finance), M.Sc.(Bioscience), M.Sc.(Biotechnology),B.Sc. Biotechnology

Phone: 011-26981717, 26984617, 26984658, 26988044, 26987183

Address: Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025, India

Website: www.jmi.ac.in

Jamia Millia Islamia


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Maitreyi College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: Dr.(Mrs.) Savita M. Dutta (Principal)Programme Coordinator: Dr. Farishta Yasmin (Assistant Professor)


Phone: 011-24673815

Address: Maitreyi College, BapuD-ham Complex, ChanakyaPuri, New Delhi-110021, India

Website: www.maitreyi.du.ac.in

Jawaharlal Nehru University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Dr. Rakesh Bhatnagar (Professor & Dean)


Phone: 011- 26704087, 011-26704089

Address: Centre for Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-110067, India

Website: www.jnu.ac.in

National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases

Type: Public (Autonomous Institute),Established by TB Association of India

Year of Setup: 1952

Courses: Molecular Research activities in regard to tuberculosis, HIV, Lung Cancer, and other infectious diseases


Phone: 011-26517826, 26517829, 26517830, 26854929, 26854922

Address: National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases, Sri Aurob-indo Marg,Near Qutub Minar, New Delhi-110030, India

Website: www.lrsitbrd.nic.in

Miranda College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics and Computer Science

Contact Person: Dr. Pratibha Jolly(Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Sushma Moitra


Phone: 011-27666201, 011- 26601446

Address: Miranda House, Patel Chest Marg, University of Delhi, Del-hi-110007, India

Website: www.mirandahouse.ac.in

National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources

Type: Public

Courses:Nodal institute at national level for acquisition and management of indigenous and exotic plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, and to carry out related research and human resource development, for sustainable growth of agriculture. M.Sc, Ph.D. courses

Contact Person: Prof. Subrata Sinha


Phone: 011-25843697, 25849214/ 9208/ 3296 Ext. 387

Address: National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources Pusa Campus, New Delhi -110012, India

Website: www.nbpgr.ernet.in

National Centre for Inte-grated Pest Management

Type: Public, Part of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)

Courses: Research programs have been formulated for number of crops for promoting environmentally sound IPM technologies


Phone: 011-25843935

Address: National Centre for Integrat-ed Pest Management (ICAR), Lal Ba-hadur Shastri Building, IARI Campus, Pusa, New Delhi-110 012, India

Website: www.ncipm.org.in

Delhi

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DelhiThe National Institute of Plant Genome Research

National Institute ofCommunicable Diseases

The National Instituteof Immunology

Type: Public (Autonomous Institution)

Affiliation: Ph.D. program in academic affiliation with the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Approved: Aided by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India

Year of Setup: 1998

Courses: Mandate to undertake, promote and co-ordinate research, train workers and to serve as informa-tion resource in identified aspects of plant genome to build a frontline plant genomics institution provide: Ph.D. program, Training programs


Phone: 011-26735157, 011-26735143

Address: National Institute of Plant Ge-nome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, P.O. Box No. 10531, New Delhi-110 067, India

Website: www.nipgr.res.in

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1963

Courses: Research relating to the detection of micro-organisms and the detection of factors governing transmis-sibility and virulence, ecology, epidemic behaviour, distribution and factors affecting distribution, interventions and monitoring of the effectiveness as well as biological resistance to interventions.

Contact Person: Dr. L. S. Chauhan(Director )


Phone: 011-23913148, 011-23946893

Address: National Centre for Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, 22, Sham Nath Marg, New Delhi-110054, India

Website: www.nicd.nic.in

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: Advanced research address-ing the basic mechanisms involved in body’s defence to identify modalities for manipulation of the immune system to provide protection against diseases and understand mechanisms that can be used to target disease pro-cesses for intervention. It Provide: PhD programs, Post-Doctoral Program and Short-term Training

Contact Person: Dr. Chandrima Shaha (Director)

Phone: 011-26717121 to 26717145

Address: National Institute of Immu-nology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi-110067, India

Website: www1.nii.res.in

Type: Public, Premier Institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research

Year of Setup: 1977

Courses: Research in both field and laboratory oriented topics in basic, applied and operational aspects of ma-laria and other vector-borne infectious diseases. Provide: Master training Program, PhD Program

Contact Person: Dr.(Mrs.) Swarnlata Saraf(HOD) Pharmaceutics


Phone: 011-253071103/104

Address: Director,National Institute of Malaria Research (ICMR),Sector 8, Dwarka, Delhi-110077, India

Website: www.mrcindia.org

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1978

Courses: Undertake research in statistical techniques and method-ology in the field of health research, exercise surveillance to ensure the statistical adequacy and validity in various programs of the Council and Government of India. Provide training courses in Biostatistics and Electronic Data Processing


Phone: 011-26588900, 011-26588904

Address: National Institute of Medical Statistics, (Indian Council of Medical Research), Ansari Nagar, New Delhi -110029, India

Website: www. nims-icmr.nic.in

Type: Public

Approved: A WHO recognized centre, Member International Union against Cancer (IUCC)

Year of Setup: 1965

Courses: Research in molecular pa-thology, genetics, immunodiagnostics, vaccine development, environmental bio-monitoring and applied fields for better health care. Provide Ph.D. program, short-term training for tech-nicians and pathologists for WHO


Phone: 011-26198402-406/409/410

Address: National Institute of Pa-thology (ICMR), Post Box No. 4909, Sadarjang Hospital Campus, New Delhi-110029, India

Website: www.instpath.gov.in

National Institute of Medical Statistics

National Institute of Pathology

National Institute ofMalaria Research

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Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science and Mathematics

Contact Person: Dr. Jaswinder Singh (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Komal Kamra (Coordinator)


Phone: 011-64668585

Address: Sri Guru TeghBahadur-Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India

Website: www.sgtbkhalsadu.ac.in

Ramjas College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Zoology, Botany, Chemistry and Physics

Contact Person: Dr. Rajendra Prasad (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Sukanya Lal (Coordinator, Associate Professor)


Phone: 011-27667706

Address: Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India

Website: www.ramjascollege.edu

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Type: Public (Autonomous Institution)

Affiliation: University of Delhi

Year of Setup: 1986

Courses: B.E Biotechnology, Ph.D.


Phone: 011-25099050

Address: Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Azad Hing Fauj Marg, Sector-3, Dwarka (Pappankalan), New Delhi-110 078, India

Website: www.nsit.ac.in

Sri Venkateswara College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Biochemis-try, Biotechnology, Botany, Chemistry, Zoology and Physics

Contact Person: Dr. P. Hemalatha Reddy (Principal)


Phone: 011-24118590, 011-24112196

Address: Sri Venkateswara College, Benito Juarez Road, DhaulaKuan, New Delhi-110021, India

Website: www.svc.ac.in

The Energy and Resource Institute

Type: Public

Affiliation: Deemed University

Year of Setup: 1974

Courses: Masters and PhD Degrees



Phone: 011-24682100

Address: The Energy and Resource Institute, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003, India

Website: www.teriin.org

The National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research

Type: Public

Affiliation: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)

Year of Setup: 1991

Courses: Research in agricultural economics and policy analysis in tech-nology policy, sustainable agriculture, market and trade, institutional change and growth and modeling in agricul-ture. Projects going on are: Developing a decision support system for agricul-tural; Risk Assessment and Insurance Products for Agriculture; Visioning, Policy Analysis and Gender


Phone: 011-27018083

Address: National Centre for Agricul-tural Economics and Policy Research, P. B. No. 11305, D.P.S.Marg, Pusa, New Delhi -110012, India

Website: www.ncap.res.in

Delhi


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Delhi GoaUniversity of Delhi

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1922

Courses: Ph.D, M.Phil, M.Sc in Botany

Contact Person: Prof. S.C. Bhatla (HOD, Deptt. of Bbotany )


Phone: 011-2411 2499

Address: University of Delhi, Near Dhaula Kuan, South Campus Building, Benito Juarez Marg, Moti Bagh, New Delhi-110021, India

Website: www.du.ac.in

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1957

Courses: Ph.D in Pulmonary Medicine, Physiology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Microbiology

Contact Person: Prof. Rajendra Prasad(Director)


Phone: 011-27662867

Address: Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi,Delhi-110007, India

Website: www.vpci.org.in

National Institute ofMalaria Research

The Birla Institute of Technology & Science

Type: Private (University )

Courses: M.Sc. (Hons.) Biological Sci-ence, M.E. (Biotechnology), Doctoral Program (Ph.D.)

Contact Person: Prof. Meenal Kowshik(Head, Deptt. of Biological Sciences)


Phone: 0832-2580304

Address: BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, NH 17B, Bypass Road, Zuari-nagar, Goa-403726, India

Website: www.bits-pilani.ac.in

Goa University(DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)



Courses: M.Sc. Marine Biotechnology


Mode of Admission: JNU-Common Entrance Test (CET)No. of Faculty Members: 5 Contact Person: Dr. Usha Muraleed-haran (Coordinator)Email: [email protected]: 0832-6519357, 0832-2452725

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnology, Goa University, Teleigao Plateau, P.O. Bambolim Complex, Goa-403206, India

Website: www.unigoa.ac.in

Type: Autonomous Organization

Year of Setup: 1976

Courses: Research activities which are aimed at improving the production and productivity of major crops of this region through various strategies including farming system approach. Other important areas of research include livestock and fisheries sector to increase the milk and meat production

Contact Person: Dr. Narendra Pratap Singh (Director)


Phone: 0832-2284678 / 79

Address: ICAR Research Complex for Goa ,Ela, Old Goa-403402, India

Website: www.icargoa.res.in

ICAR Research Complex for Goa

Type: Public

Affiliation: Run by Government of Goa

Year of Setup: 1966

Courses: Diploma in Pharmacy, Bachelor of Pharmacy, Master of Phar-macy (Quality Assurance), Master of Pharmacy (Pharmacology), Master of Pharmacy (Pharmacognosy)

Contact Person: Dr. Gopal Krishna Rao (Principal)


Phone: 0832-2226882, 09158055530

Address: Goa College of Pharmacy, 18th June Road, Panaji, Goa-403 001, India

Website: www.gcp.goa.gov.in

Goa College of Pharmacy


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GujaratAnand Agricultural University


Year of Setup: 2004

Courses: Provides education, research and extension activities in Agriculture, Horticulture Engineering, product Processing and Home Science

Contact Person: Dr. K. B. Kathiria(Director )


Phone: 02692-261310

Address: Anand Agricultural Univer-sity,Anand-388110, Gujarat, India

Website: www.aau.in

AR College and GH Patel Institute of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Gujarat Technological University

Approved: Approved by AICTE, PCI, New Delhi, Gujarat State Govt. (DTE)

Accreditation: AICTE-NBA & Interna-tional Accreditation Organization (IAO)

Year of Setup: 1963

Courses: D. Pharm., B.Pharm., M.Pharm.(Quality Assurance, Pharma-ceutics, Clinical ,Pharmacy, Pharmacogn-soy, Pharmacology, Medicinal Chemistry)

Contact Person: Dr. A. K. Saluja(Principal)


Phone: 02692-230788, 02692-233990

Address: AR College & GH Patel Institute of Pharmacy, Mota Bazar, P.B .No-19, Val-labh Vidyanagar-388120, Gujarat, India

Website: www.arghpharmacy.ac.in

Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research

Type: Public

Affiliation: (Indian Council of Ag-ricultural Research - Department of Agricultural Research & Education, Government of India)

Courses: Research related to Devel-opment of appropriate production, protection and processing technolo-gies for important MAP through basic, strategic and applied research


Phone: 02692-271602

Address: Directorate of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants Research, Boria-vi-387310, Anand District, Gujarat, India

Website: www.dmapr.org.in

The Gujarat University

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1949

Courses: Ph.D, Masters in Science

Contact Person: Dr. Mukul I. Shah (Director)


Phone: 079-26301341

Address: Gujarat University, Navrang-pura, Ahmedabad-380009, Gujarat, India

Website: www.gujaratuniversity.org.in

Institute of Pharmacy (Nirma University )

Type: Private University

Year of Setup: 1994

Courses: B.Pharma, M.Pharma(Pharmaceutical Technology & Bio-Pharmaceutics ,Pharmaceutical Analysis ,Regulatory Affairs & Quality Assurance,Pharmacology ,Medicinal Chemistry,Phytopharmaceuticals & Natural Products,Drug Discovery,-Clinical Pharmacy), Ph.D

Contact Person: Prof. (Dr.) Tejal A. Mehta(HOD)


Phone: 02717-241900 to 04

Address: Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, Post : Chandlodia, Via : Gota, Ahmedabad - 382 481, Gujarat, India

Website: www.nirmauni.ac.in

L. M. College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Gujarat Technological University

Approved: PCI and AICTE

Accreditation: ‘A’-Grade by NAAC

Year of Setup: 1947

Courses: D.Pharm., B.Pharm., M.Pharm. and Ph. D

Contact Person: Dr. M. T. Chhabria(Principal)


Phone: 079-26302746

Address: Lallubhai Motilal College of Pharmacy, Post Box No. 4011, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad -380009, Gujarat

Website: www. lmcp.in


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Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1979

Courses: Conduct basic and strate-gic research to enhance production, productivity and quality of groundnut. Act as the national repository of working collection of groundnut germplasm and information on groundnut research

Contact Person: J. B. Misra (Director)

Phone: 0285-2673382, 0285-2675831

Address: Directorate of Groundnut Research, PO Box 5, Ivnagar Road, Junagadh 362001, Gujarat, India

Website: www.nrcg.res.in






Contact Person: Prof. T. Bagchi(Coordinator, Biotechnology Centre)


Phone: 0265-2794396, 0265-2793070, 0265-2750498

Address: M.S. University of Baroda, Baroda-390002, Gujarat, India

Website: www.msubaroda.ac.in

M.S. University of Baroda (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

GujaratM. G. Science Institute(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Botany, Zoology, Statistics, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Mathematics

Contact Person: Dr. B. K. Jain (Principal)

Programme Coordinator:Dr. Vivek Upasani

Email: [email protected],[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Phone: 079-26302872 Ext. 40

Address: M. G. Science Institute,DadasahibMalvankar Road, Navrangpu-ra,Ahmedabad-380009, Gujarat, India

Website: www.mgscience.ac.in

National Research Centre for Groundnut

Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar (DBT suppo-rted Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: M.Sc. Industrial Biotech-nology




Contact Person: Prof. R.B. Balasubra-manian (Coordinator)


Phone: 02692-234412

Address: BRD School of Biosciences, Sardar Patel Maidan, Vadtal Road, Satellite Campus, Post Box. No. 39, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar-388120, Gujarat, India

Website: www.spuvvn.edu

Type: Private


Year of Setup: 1976

Courses: M. Sc. Biochemistry, Bioscience

Contact Person: Dr. S.P. Singh (HOD)

Phone: 0281-2578501/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/12

Address: Saurashtra University, Saurashtra University Campus, Rajkot - 360 005, Gujarat, India

Website: www.saurashtrauniversity.edu

Saurashtra University, Rajkot

Shree Manibhai Virani & Smt. Navalben Virani Science College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Chemistry, Microbiology, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Contact Person: Dr. A. U. Patel (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Shivani Patel (Coordinator, Head of Deptt.)


Phone: 0281-2562681

Address: Shree Manibhai Virani& Smt. Navalben Virani Science College, “YogidhamGurukul”, Kalawad Road, Rajkot-360005, Gujarat, India

Website: www.vsc.edu.in


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Shree S.K.Patel College of Pharmaceutical Education and Research

Type: Private

Affiliation: Ganpat University

Year of Setup: 1966

Courses: B.Pharm, M.Pharm., Pharma-ceutics, Quality Assurance, Pharmacolo-gy, Industrial Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacognosy, Pharmaceu-tical Biotechnology, Novel Drug Delivery System, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Ph.D.

Contact Person: Dr. Rakesh P. Patel(Principal)


Phone: 02762-286082

Address: Ganpat University, Mehsana-Gozaria Highway, Ganpat Vidyanagar-384012, Gujarat, India

Website: www.skpcper.ac.in

St. Xavier’s College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Contact Person: Dr. Vincent Braganza, s.j. (Principal & Coordinator)


Phone: 011-27667706

Address: St. Xavier’s College, Post Box 4168, Navarangpura, Ahmed-abad-380009, Gujarat, India

Website: www.stxavierscollege.net

The Gujarat AgriculturalUniversity

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1972

Courses: Offers education in agricul-ture and allied sciences i.e., Agri-culture, Agricultural Engineering, Fisheries, Veterinary Science & An-imal Husbandary and Agri Business Management

Contact Person: Dr. C. J. Dangaria(Director)


Phone: 0285-2670131

Address: Director of Research and Dean Post Graduate Studies, Jun-agadh Agricultural University, Jun-agadh-362001, Gujarat, India

Website: www.jau.in

The National Institute of Occupational Health

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1966

Courses: Priorities and needs and en-visage a multi-disciplinary approach, encompassing epidemiological studies, experimental studies, ergonomics and intervention technologies, wherever necessary

Contact Person: Dr. Sunil Kumar(Director)


Phone: 079-22686351, 22686352,22686430, 22686242

Address: Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma UniversityNational Institute of Occupational Health (Indian Council of Medical Research), Meghani Nagar, Ahmedabad-380016, Gujarat, India

Website: www.nioh.org

HaryanaApeejay Stya University

CCS Haryana Agricultural University

Type: Private

Year of Setup: 2010

Courses: B Tech Biotechnology, Integrated B Tech + M Tech Biotech-nology, MSc/M Tech Biotechnology, MSc Clinical Research, M Phil/PhD Biotechnology, Bioinformatics

Contact Person: Dr. Asha Chandola saklani (Dean, School of BioSciences)


Phone: 08527735552

Address: Apeejay Stya University, Sohna - Palwal Road, Sohna-122103,Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Website: www.university.apeejay.edu

Type: Autonomous Institution

Year of Setup: 1970

Courses: B.Sc. (Hons.), B.Tech. (Agril. Engg.),M.Sc. And Ph.D. In bioinfor-matics , Botany & Plant physiology, Biochemistry

Contact Person: Prof. (Dr.) Ram Singh (Director )


Phone: 01662-237721 Extn. 4407

Address: Directorate of Human Resource Management,CCS Haryana Agricultural University-125004, Haryana, India

Website: www.hau.ernet.in

Gujarat


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Maharshi Dayanand University(DBT supportedPostgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Accreditation: A’ Grade by NAAC

Courses: Masters in Medical Biotech-nology



No. of Faculty Members:10

Contact Person: Prof. S. K. Gakhar(Director)


Phone: 01262-279147

Address: Centre for Biotechnolo-gy, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak-124001, Haryana, India

Website: www.mdurohtak.ac.in

KVA DAV College for Women(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Biotech-nology, Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Physics and Computer Science

Contact Person: Ms. Reeta Sehgal (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Manju Bala Sharma


Phone: 0184-2252329, 0184-2252429

Address: KVA DAV College for Women, Karnal, Railway Road, Karnal-132001, Haryana, India

Website: www.kvadav.com

Haryana






Contact Person: Dr. Ashok Coudhary (Chairman)


Phone: 01662-263165

Address: Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar-125001, Haryana, India

Website: www.gjust.ac.in

Guru Jambheshwar University of Sc. & Tech (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Kurukshetra University



Year of Setup: 1956

Courses: M.Sc. Biotecnology

Contact Person: Dr. Girish Chopra (Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences)

Phone: 01744-238169

Address: Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra-136119, Haryana, India

Website: www. kuk.ac.in

LLR University of Veteri-nary and Animal Sciences (DBTsupported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: M.VSc. (Animal Biotechnol-ogy)




Contact Person: Dr. Manohar Lal Sangwan (Prof. & Head, Deptt. of Ani-mal Biotechnology)


Phone: 01662-289132

Address: Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Hissar-125 004,Haryana, India

Website: luvas.edu.in

Type: Private (Deemed to be University)

Year of Setup: 1997

Courses: B Tech Biotechnology, MSc Biotechnology, M Tech Biotechnology

Contact Person: DR. Sarita Sachdeva (Professor & Head of the Department)


Phone: 0129-419 8100

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, MRIU, Aravalli Campus Sector-43, Delhi-Suraj Kund Badkhal Road, Aravali Hills, Faridabad-121010, Haryana, India

Website: www.mriu.edu.in

Manav Rachna International University


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CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: M.Sc. Agricultural Biotechnology




Contact Person: Prof. T R. Sharma(Coordinator)


Phone: 01894-230314

Address: Deptt. of Agricultural Biotechnology, C.S.K.H.P. Agricul-tural University, Palampur-176062, Himachal Pradesh, India

Website: www.hillagric.ac.in

HaryanaNational Brain Research Centre

Type: Public

Courses: Ph.D. in Neuroscience , Integrated-Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Summer training and short-term programs



Phone: 0124-2845200

Address: National Brain Research Centre, NH-8, Manesar, Gurga-on-122051, Haryana, India

Website: www.nbrc.ac.in

N.C. College of Engineering

Type: Private

Affiliation: Kurushetra University

Year of Setup: 1998

Courses: B. Tech. Biotechnology

Contact Person: Er. Pankaj Sharma (HOD)


Phone: 0180-2579678, 0180- 2579764, 0180-2579835

Address: ANC College of Engineering, ISRANA, Panipat, Haryana, India

Website: www.ncce.edu

National Bureau of Ani-mal Genetic Resources

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1985

Courses: The bureau had developed for Identification, Evaluation, Charac-terization, Conservation and Utiliza-tion of Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources. It provide training related to subject above mentioned

Contact Person: Dr. Arjava Sharma(Director)


Phone: 0184-2267918

Address: National Bureau of Ani-mal Genetic Resources(NBAGR), Makrampur Campus, G.T.Road Bye Pass, Near Basant Vihar, P.O.Box No. 129, Karnal-132001, Haryana, India

Website: www.nbagr.res.in

Himachal PradeshCSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: Ph.D Courses

Contact Person: Dr. P.S. Ahuja (Director, IHBT)


Phone: 01894-230411

Address: CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research), Post Box No. 6 Palampur -176061, Himach-al Pradesh, India

Website: www.ihbt.res.in

Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry

Type: State University

Year of Setup: 1985

Courses: M.Sc. program, Genetic Transformation, Plant Virology, Molecular Biology, Forest and Hor-ticulture Biotechnology, Plant Tissue Culture, Biochemistry, Microbial Biotechnology, Bioinformatics

Contact Person: Dr. D. K. Srivastava(Professor and Head, Department of Biotechnology)


Phone: 01792-252639

Address: Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan-173230, Himachal Pradesh, India

Website: www.yspuniversity.ac.in


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St. Bede’s College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Mathe-matics, Computer Science, Microbiol-ogy and Biotechnology

Contact Person: (Dr.) Sr. Beena John (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Shramja Munjal (Associate Professor & Head, Department of Botany)


Phone:0177-2842304, 0177-2842498

Address:St. Bede’s College (Women’s College), Navbahar, Shimla-171002, Himachal Pradesh, India

Website: www.stbedescollege.in

Govt. Post Graduate College, Dharamshala(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Accreditation: NAAC

Contact Person: Prof. Satish Chander Sharma (Principal & Program Coor-dinator)


Phone: 01892-224894

Address: Govt. College, Dharamasha-la, Dist. Kangra-176215, Himachal Pradesh, India

Website: www.gcdharamshala.ac.in

Himachal PradeshGovt. College, Bilaspur(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: R. P. Chopra(Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Prof. R. P. Chopra (Coordinator, Department of Zoology)


Phone: 01978-222417

Address: Government College, Bilas-pur, Dist. Bilaspur-174001, Himachal Pradesh, India

Himachal Pradesh University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)







Contact Person: Prof. T.C. Bhalla (Coordinator & Chairman, Deptt. Of Biotechnology)


Phone: 0177-2832154, 0177-2831948

Address: Himachal Pradesh Univer-sity, Summer Hill, Shimla -171 005, Himachal Pradesh, India

Website: www.hpuniv.nic.in

Type: Private (University)

Year of Setup: 2009

Courses: BSc Biotech/Microbiology, B.Tech in Biotech/Bioinformatics, MSc (Research) Biotech/Biochem/Micro-bio, M Tech Biotech, MBA Biotech, M Phil & PhD Biotech/Microbiology

Contact Person: Dr. Kamal Dev


Phone: 09418653905

Address: Shoolini University, Bajhol,Solan-Oachghat-Kumarhatti Highway, Post Box 9 Solan-173212, Himachal Pradesh, India

Website: www.shooliniuniversity.com

Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management SciencesType: Private( State University)

Approved: AICTE & UGC

Accreditation: NBA

Year of Setup: 2002

Courses: B.Tech Biotechnology/ Bioinformatics; Dual Degree MTech Biotechnology, M.Tech. Biotechnology /Computational Biology; MPharm Pharmacology/Medicinal Chemistry; PhD in Biotechnology/ Bioinformat-ics/ Pharmaceutical Sciences

Contact Person: Dr. R.S. Chauhan (Dean Biotechnology)


Phone: 01792-239231, 09418405536

Address: Jaypee University of Infor-mation Technology, Waknaghat, P.O. Waknaghat, Teh Kandaghat, Distt. So-lan-173 234, Himachal Pradesh, India

Website: www.juit.ac.in

Jaypee University of Information Technology


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Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Mathematics and Computer Science

Contact Person: Dr. Hemla Aggarwal (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Pragya Khanna (Head, Deptt. of Zoology)


Phone: 0191-2544305

Address: Govt. College for Women, Parade Ground, Jammu-180001, J&K, India

Website: www.gcwgandhinagar.com

Govt. College for Women(Under DBT Star College Scheme)

Govt. Degree College (Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Botany, Physics & Electronics, Zoology and Chemistry

Accreditation: ‘B++’ Grade by NAAC

Contact Person: Dr. Nutan Kumar Resutra (Principal)


Phone: 01992-270239

Address: Government Degree College, Near P.W. D. Dak Banglow, Udhampur, J&K, India

Website: www.gdcbhadarwah.com


Courses: M.Sc. Bioresources’s Biotechnology




Contact Person: Prof. B. A. Wafai(Director & Coordinator)


Phone: 01962-262616

Address: Baba Gulam Shah Baadshah University (BGSB), Rajouri-185131, J&K, India

Website: www.bgsbuniversity.org

Baba Gulam Shah Baad-shah University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Vallabh Govt. College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Biotechnology and Computer Science

Contact Person: Dr. Man Singh Jamwal (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Uma Dutt (Coordinator)


Phone: 01905-235505

Address: Vallabh Govt. College, Mandi- 175001, Himachal Pradesh, India

Website: www.vgcmandi.in

Himachal PradeshThe Directorate of Mushroom Research

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: Undertaking research on all aspects of mushrooms and also to impart training to the trainers and growers.

Contact Person: Dr. R. C. Upadhyay, (Principal Scientist, Culture of Edible Cultivated Mushrooms)


Phone: 01792-230767, 01792-230541, 01792-230451

Address: Directorate of Mushroom Research, Indian Council of Agricul-ture Research,Chambaghat, So-lan-173213, Himachal Pradesh, India

Website: www.nrcmushroom.org

Jammu & Kashmir


Supported Departments: Animal Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiol-ogy, Genetics, Clinical medicine and Livestock Production Management

Contact Person: Dr. Nazir A Ganai ((Coordinator, Bioinformatics Center, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences)


Phone: 0194-2262207, 0194-2262209

Address: College of Veterinary Sciences & Animal Husbandry, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture Science and Technology, (FVSc& AH), Shuhama, Srinagar-190006, J&K, India

Website: www.cvsccauaizawl.org

Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


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Courses: M.V.Sc. (Animal Biotechnology)


Mode of Admission: JNU-Common Entrance Test (CET); University Exam


Contact Person: Prof. Nazir A Ganai (Coordinator)


Phone: 0194-2262642

Address: SKUAST, Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, Shuhama, Srinagar-190006, J&K, India

Website: www.skuastkashmir.ac.in

University of Kashmir(DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






No. of Faculty Members:7

Contact Person: Prof. Khalid M Fazili (Prof. & Head, Deptt. of Biotechnology)


Phone: 09419006123

Address: Biotechnology Department, Science Block, University Campus, Hazurat Bal, University of Kashmir, Srinagar-190006, J&K, India

Website: www.kashmiruniversity.net

University of Jammu(DBT supported Postgraduate TeachingProgram in Biotech)






Contact Person: Dr. Manoj Dhar (Head, Deptt. Of Biotechnology)


Phone: 0191-2456534, 2450014, 2459383

Address: University of Jammu, Ambedkar Road, Jammu Tawi-180006, J&K, India

Website: www.jammuuniversity.in

Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Jammu & Kashmir JharkhandSK University of Medical Sciences, Srinagar


Year of Setup: 1982

Courses: Post Graduate Courses In Microbiology, Doctoral and Post Doc-toral studies

Contact Person: Prof. Dalip Kumar Kakru( Professor & Head of Microbiology)

Phone: 0194-2401013, 0194-2403470

Address: Sher -i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar-190011, J&K, India

Website: www.skims.ac.in

Birla Institute of Technology

Type: Private

Year of Setup: 2002 (Biotechnology Deptt. )

Courses: Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Biotechnology, Bachelor of Pharmacy (B. Pharmacy), M.Tech Biotechnology and M.Sc. program in Bioinformatics, M. Pharm (Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharma-ceutics , Pharmacology, Pharmacogno-sy), Ph.D program in various fields of biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. Kunal Mukho-padhyay (Professor & Head)

Phone: 0651-2275444, 0651-2275896

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnology, Birla Institute of Technology-Mesra, Ranchi-835215, Jharkhand, India

Website: www.bitmesra.ac.in

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1924

Courses: It’s a nodal Institute at national level for research and development on all aspects of lac and other natural gums & resins (excluding production) such as harvesting / tapping, processing, prod-uct development, training, information repository, technology dissemination and national/international cooperation;Research on characterization and selec-tion of lac insect genetic stocks and host plant germplasms through molecular approach with an aim to select best productive and qualitative lac insects and host plants.

Contact Person: Dr. R. Ramani (Director )


Phone: 0651-2260117 (Ext 288)

Address: Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums, Namkum, Ranchi- 834010, Jharkhand, India

Website: wwww.ilri.ernet.in

Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums


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KarnatakaAcharya & BM Reddy College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS)

Accreditation: AICTE ,PCI and Govt. of Karnataka Bd. of Exams, Dept of Drug ControlApproved: NBA

Year of Setup: 1992Courses: D. Pharm ,B. Pharm ,M. Pharm,Pharm. D

Contact Person: Prof. Divakar Goli (Principal)


Phone: 080-28396011, 28372330

Address: Acharya Institutes, Dr. Sarve-palli Radhakrishnan Road, Acharya Post Office, Bangalore-560107, Karnataka, India

Website: www.acharya.ac.in

Acharya Institute of Technology

Type: Private

Affiliation: Visvesaraya Technological University (VTU)

Accreditation: NBA Accredited

Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 2002

Courses: B.E. and M.Tech in Biotech-nology

Contact Person: Dr. H.D. Maheshappa(Principal)


Phone: 080-23722222, 09980097317

Address: Acharya Institutes, Acha-rya Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Road, Acharya Post Office, Banga-lore-560107, Karnataka, India

Website: www.acharya.ac.in

Affiliation: Bangalore University

Year of Setup: 1966

Courses: BSc Biotechnology, BSc Industrial Microbiology (Vocational)

Contact Person: Dr Najma Bano (HOD)


Phone: 080-22234619 / 22225834

Address: Al-Ameen Arts, Science and Commerce Degree College, Hosur Road, Near Lalbagh Main Gate, Ban-galore-560 027, Karnataka, India

Website: www.alameen.edu.in

Al-Ameen Arts, Science & Commerce College

Bangalore City College Bangalore UniversityB.L.D.E.A’s College of Pharmacy

Type: Private



Year of Setup: 1999

Courses: B. Sc. Biotechnology, B. Sc. Microbiology, M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Applied Genetics, M.Sc. Micro Biology, M.Sc. Bio - Chemistry

Contact Person: Dr. Maryada(Professor)

Phone: 080-2545 9956

Address: 160, Chelikere Main Road, Banaswadi Outer Ring Road, Kalyan Nagar Post, Behind Bts Bus Depot, Kalyan Nagar Post, 6th Main Rd, HRBR Layout 2nd Block, HRBR Lay-out, Kalyan Nagar, Bangalore-560043, Karnataka , India

Website: www.bangalorecitycollege.org



Year of Setup: 1992 (Deptt. of Microbiology)

Courses: M.Sc. in Biotechnology, M.Sc. in Microbiology, PhD Degree

Contact Person: Dr. S. K. Sarangi (Principal)

Phone: 080-22961461

Address: Bangalore University, Department of Microbiology, Jnana Bharathi campus, Bangalore-560056, Karnataka, India

Website: www.bangaloreuniversity.ac.in

Type: Private

Affiliation: Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences

Approved: PCI, AICTE

Year of Setup: 1982

Courses: D. Pharm, Pharm. D, B. Pharm, M. Pharm

Contact Person: Dr. Navanath V. Kaylane (Principal)


Phone: 09448947496, 8352-264004

Address: B.L.D.E.A’s College of Pharmacy, Post Box no 40, Ashram Road, Engg College Campus, Bijapur , Karnataka-586103, India

Website: www.bldeapharmacy.org


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KarnatakaBrindavan College, Bengaluru

Type: Private (Autonomous)


Approved: AICTE


Year of Setup: 1993

Courses: B.Sc in Micro-Biology, B.Sc in Bio-Technology, B.Sc in Genetics, M.Sc in Bio-Techonology, M.Sc in Micro-Biology, M.Sc in Applied Genetics, Ph.D in Microbiology

Contact Person: Dr. Mustaq Ahmed (Principal)


Phone: 080-43317777, 080-23417833

Address: Brindavan College, 2nd Cross, Vinayaka Layout, Bhoopasandra, R.M.V. 2nd Stage, Bengaluru-560094, Karnataka, India

Website: www.brindavancollege.com

Central Food Technolog-ical Research Institute

Type: Public (Under CSIR)

Year of Setup: 1950

Courses: Ph.D

Contact Person: Ram Rajasekharan(Director)


Phone: 0821-2515910

Address: Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), My-sore-570020, Karnataka, India

Website: www.cftri.com

CMR Institute of Technology

Type: Private

Affiliation: JNTUH

Approved: AICTE

Accreditation: NBA Accredited

Year of Setup: 2005

Courses: B. Pharmacy and B. Tech, M.Tech in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr.B.Vijaya Lakshmi


Phone: 080-28524466 / 77

Address: CMR Institute of Technol-ogy, 132 AECS Layout, ITPL Main Road,Kundalahalli, Bangalore-560037, Karnataka, India

Website: www.cmrit.ac.in

Type: Private


Approved: AICTE


Courses: B.Sc in Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Genetics, M.Sc in Microbiology, M.Sc in Biochemistry, M.Sc in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Ms. Ishrat Nasreen Wahab


Phone: 080–66487600

Address: Garden City College Cam-pus, 16th KM, Old Madras Road, Bangalore-560049, Karnataka, India

Website: www.gardencitycollege.edu

Garden City College of Management and Science

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1986

Courses: Research on all aspects of cashew for improving productivity and quality with special reference to export and serve as a national repository for germplasm collection of cashew in the country (National Cashew Field Gene Bank)

Contact Person: Prof. P.L. Saroj(Director)


Phone: 08251-231530, 230902, 236490, 230992

Address: Directorate of Cashew Research, Post Darbe, Puttur-574202, D.K., Karnataka-574202, India

Website: www.cashew.res.in

Directorate of Cashew Research

Dayananda Sagar College of Management and Information Technology

Type: Private

Affiliation: Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)

Approved: AICTE and Government of Karnataka

Accreditation: Grade ‘A’ by NAAC

Year of Setup: 2006 (Biotech Deptt.)

Courses: BE Biotech

Contact Person: Dr.G.S Jagannatha Rao


Phone: 080-42161748

Address: Dayananda Sagar Insti-tutions, Shavige Malleshwara Hills, Karnataka, India

Website: www.dscmanit.org


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Gulbarga University(DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Dr. Kelmani Chandrakanth R (Deptt. of Biotech-nology)


Phone: 08472-247020

Address: Gulbarga University, Gulbarga -585106 , Karnataka, India

Website: www.gulbargauniversity.kar.nic.in

KarnatakaGautham College of Pharmacy

Government Science College

Type: Private

Affiliation: Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science

Year of Setup: 1985

Courses: Bachelor of Pharmacy, Diplo-ma in Pharmacy, Master of Pharmacy in Pharmacology, Master of Pharmacy in Pharmaceutics, Pharma D

Contact Person: Dr. Archana Swamy P. M (Principal)


Phone:080-23639720, 080-23334828

Address: Bhuvaneshwari nagar, R. T. Nagar post, Bangalore-560032, Karna-taka, India

Website: www.gauthamcollege.org

Type: Public




Year of Setup: 1921

Courses: B.Sc Biotechnology, Microbiology, M.Sc Biotechnology, Microbiology

Contact Person: Dr.Ramakrishnaiah (Biotechnology Deptt.)


Phone: 080-222129244

Address: Government Science College, Nrupatunga Road, Bangalore-560001, Karnataka, India

Website: www.gscblr.kar.nic.in

Indian Institute of Horticultural Research


Courses: Basic and applied research for developing strategies to enhance productivity and utilization of tropical and sub-tropical horticulture crops viz., fruits, vegetables, ornamentals, medicinal and aromatic plants and mushrooms

Contact Person: Dr. T.Manjunatha Rao (Director)


Phone: 080-28466420

Address: Indian Institute of Horti-cultural Research, Hessaraghatta lake post,Bangalore-560089, Karnataka, India

Website: www.iihr.ernet.in

Indian Institute of Science

Type: Public University

Year of Setup: 1909

Courses: Integrated Phd Programs in Biological Sciences, PhD Programs in Biological Sciences

Contact Person: Umesh Varshney(Professor and Chairman of Deptt. of Microbiology and Cell Biology)


Phone: 080-22932210

Address: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, Karnataka, India

Website: www.iisc.ernet.in

Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology

Type: Public

Affiliation: Recognized, Degree awarded by the University of Mysore, Mysore

Courses: MSc Bioinformatics & Applied Biotechnology, PhD programs

Contact Person:Prof. N Yathindra, (Director)

Phone: 080-28528900, 080-285289 01, 080-28528902

Address: Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Biotech Park, Electronics City Phase I, Banga-lore-560100, Karnataka, India

Website: www.ibab.ac.in


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KarnatakaJain University



Year of Setup: 2001 (Biotechnology Department)

Courses: B.Sc. in Biotechnology, M.Sc. in Biotechnology, M. Phil. in Biotech-nology and Ph. D. in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Prof. Sudha Deshmukh


Phone: 080-43226506, 09972911288

Address: School of Engineering & Technology, Jain University, 45th km, NH - 209, Jakkasandra Post, Kanakapura Road, Bangalore-562112, Karnataka, India

Website: www.jainuniversity.ac.in

JSS College of Arts, Commerce & Science(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Microbiology

Contact Person: Prof. B.V. Sambashivaiah (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Prof. K.G. ShivakumaraSwamy


Phone: 0821-2548236, 0821-2548380

Address: SS College of Arts, Commerce & Science. Ooty Road, Mysore-570025, Karnataka, India

Website: www.jsscacs.edu.in,www.jsscacs.com

JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysore

Type: Private (A Constituent College of JSS University, Mysore)

Approved: PCI


Courses: B.Pharm, M Pharm, D Pharm


Phone: 0821-2548 353

Address: JSS College of Pharmacy, Sri Shivarathreeshwara Nagar, Mysore-570 015, Karnataka, India

Website: www.jsspharma.org

Type: Private

Affiliation: K. L. E University

Approved: Pharmacy Council of India (PCI), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)


Year of Setup: 1968

Courses: B .Pharma, M.Pharma , M.Sc in Clinical Research


Phone: 0831-2471399, 0831-2472777

Address: Kleu College of Pharmacy, Jnmc Campus, Belgaum-590010, Kar-nataka, India

Website: www.klepharm.edu

K.L.E. University’sCollege of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: RGUHS


Year of Setup: 2003

Courses: M.Pharm, B.Pharm, Diploma in Pharmacy (D.Pharm)

Contact Person: Dr. T. Prabhakar (Principal)


Phone: 080-65332053, 080-28571484

Address: Karnataka College Of Phar-macy, Campus # 33/2, Thirumenahalli, Hegde Nagar Main Road, Jakkur Post, Yelahanka Hobli, Bangalore-560064, Karnataka, India

Website: www.karnatakacollegeof-pharmacy.com

Karnataka College of Pharmacy



Year of Setup: 2001 (Deptt. of Biotechnology)

Courses: B.Sc in Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Genetics, M.Sc in Microbiology, M.Sc in Biochemistry, M.Sc in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Prof. A. B. Vedamurthy (Professor & Chairman)

Phone: 0836-2215356

Address: Karnatak University, Pavate Nagar, Dharwad-580003, Karnataka, India

Website: wwww.kud.ac.in

Karnataka University, Dharwad


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KarnatakaKLE University’s College Of Pharmacy, Hubli

Kristu Jayanti College Krupanidhi College

Type: Private

Affiliation: KLE University

Approved: PCI & AICTE


Year of Setup: 1985

Courses: B. Pharm, M. Pharm, Ph.D

Contact Person: Dr. B .M. Patil(Principal)


Phone: 0836-2373174, 09448634245

Address: K.L.E.University’s College of Pharmacy,Vidyanagar, Hubli-580031, Karnataka, India

Website: www.klescoph.org




Year of Setup: 1999

Courses: B.Sc in Microbiology, B.Sc in Biotechnology, M.Sc in Biotechnology, M.Sc in Microbiology

Contact Person: Fr. Sebastian Thekke-dathu, CMI (Principal)


Phone: 080-28465611, 28465770, 28465353

Address: Kristu Jayanti College, K. Narayanapura, Kothanur (Post),Bangalore-560077, Karnataka, India

Website: www.kristujayanti.edu.in

Type: Private


Approved: Govt. of Karnataka, PCI & AICTE

Year of Setup: 1999

Courses: Diploma in Pharmacy, Bach-elor of Pharmacy, Master of Pharmacy, Pharm D , Pharm D PB, Ph D

Contact Person: Dr. Raman Dang (Principal)


Phone: 080-65973260

Address: Krupanidhi College, Chikka Bellandur, Carmelaram Post,Varthur Hubli Bangalore-560035 Karnataka, India

Website: pharmacy.krupanidhi.edu.in

Kuvempu University, Shimoga

Year of Setup: 1987

Courses: M.Sc in Biotechnology, Environment Science

Contact Person:Dr. T.V.Venkatesh (Dean)


Phone: 08282-256301 to 256307

Address: Kuvempu University, Jnan-asahyadri Shankaraghatta-577451, Shivamogga Dist., Karnataka, India

Website: www.kuvempu.ac.in

Luqman College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, Bangalore

Approved: A.I.C.T.E & P.C.I.

Courses: D. Pharma, B.Pharma, M.Pharma


Phone: 08472-250935

Address: Luqman College of Phar-macy, Post Box No-86, Behind P&T quarters, Old Jewargi Road, Gulbar-ga-585102,Karnataka, India

Website: www.luqmanpharmacyglb.org

M.S. Ramaiah College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: D.Pharm course (Affiliat-ed to Board of Examining Authority, Govt of Karnataka); B.Pharm course (Affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi Univer-sity of Health Sciences, Karnataka)

Approved: Government of Karnataka, the Pharmacy Council of India, New Delhi and AICTE, New Delhi

Courses: B.Pharm, M.Pharm, Pharm D

Contact Person:Dr.V.Madhavan(Principal)


Phone: 080-23608942, 080-23603947

Address: M.S. Ramaiah College Of Pharmacy, M.S.R Nagar, M.S.R.I.T Post, Bangalore-560054, Karanataka, India

Website: www.msrcp.edu.in


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Maharani Lakshmi Am-manni College for Women(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Botany, Chemistry, Microbiology and Zoology

Contact Person: Dr. M.B. Nagaveni(HOD & Coordinator)


Phone: 080-23349311 Ext. 207

Address: Maharani Lakshmi Amman-niCollege for Women, 18th Cross, Science P.O., Malleshwaram, Banga-lore-560012, Karnataka, India

Website: www.mlacw.org

KarnatakaMaharani Science College for Women

Affliation: University of Mysore

Year of Setup: 1917

Courses: B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Microbi-ology, M.Sc. in Applied Zoology, M.Sc. in Botany, M.Sc. in Biochemistry

Contact Person: Dr. Susheela G.M. (Principal)


Phone: 0821-2424335

Address: The Principal, Maharani’s Science College for Women, Jhansi Lakshmi Bai Road, Mysore-570005, Karnataka, India

Website: www.mscwm.com

Mangalore University, Mangalore


Courses: Postgraduate courses in Botony, Zoology, Microbiology and Biochemistry, Biosciences, Biotech-noogy, Ph.D.

Contact Person: Dr. M. Rajashekhar


Phone: 0824-2287276, 0824-2287347

Address: Mangalore University, Man-galagangotri -574199, Karnataka, India

Website: www.mangaloreuniversity.ac.in

Type: Private

Affiliation: Manipal University (Deemed University)


Year of Setup: 1963

Courses: DPharm, B.Pharm,M.Pharm, Pharm D

Contact Person: Dr J VenkataRao (Prof. and Head)


Phone: 0820-2922311

Address: Manipal College of Phar-maceutical Sciences, Manipal-576104, Karnataka, India

Website: www.manipal.edu

Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Type: Private

Affiliation: Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka

Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: D.Pharma, B.Pharm

Contact Person: Prof. Krishnamoorthy M.Rao


Phone: 080-23493279

Address: Milind Institute of Pharmacy, J.C Nagar Pipeline road, WOC Road , Bangalore-86, Karnataka, India

Website: www.mip.edu.in

Milind Institute of Pharmacy

Type: Autonomous



Year of Setup: 1973

Courses: B.Sc Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. Shanta Sastry (Principal)


Phone: 080-26637042

Address: The Principal, NMKRV Col-lege for Women, III Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore- 560011, Karnataka, India

Website: www.rsst-nmkrvcollege.net

N.M.K.R.V. College for Women

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KarnatakaNargund College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS)

Approved: Government of Karnataka, PCI & AICTE

Courses: B Pharma, M Pharma, Pharma D

Contact Person: Dr. L.V. G. Nargund(Director)


Phone: 080-26720604

Address: Nargund College Of Phar-macy, 2nd Main Dattatreyanagar, 100feet Ring Road, Banashankari 3rd Stage, Bangalore -560085, Karnataka, India

Website: www.nargundcop.org

National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (NBAIM)

National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology

Type: Public

Recognized: National Repository by Biodiversity Authority of India

Year of Setup: 2001

Courses: Goal of the Bureau is to promote and coordinate systematic and scientific research in the area of agriculturally important microorgan-isms (AIMs) in order to improve the agricultural productivity.

Contact Person: Dr. Arun Kumar Sharma (Director)


Phone: 080-23511982

Address: National Bureau of Agri-culturally Important Insects, P.Bag No:2491, H.A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Bangalore-560024, Karnataka, India

Website: www.nbaim.org.in

Type: Public (Under ICAR)

Year of Setup: 1995

Courses: Conduct basic and funda-mental research in animal nutrition and physiology for understanding the biophysical translation of the nutrients in animals.; Improving production and reproductive efficiency in livestock through basic physiological and nutritional approaches; Provide Ph.D programs

Contact Person: Dr. C. S. Prasad, (Director)

Phone: 080-25711303 / 304 / 164, 080-25702539 / 46

Address: National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Adugodi, Bangalore-560030, Karnataka, India

Website: www.nianp.res.in

National College of Pharmacy

Type: Private



Year of Setup: 1967

Courses: B.Pharma, M.Pharma (Phar-maceutics), M.Pharma (Pharmaceuti-cal Science)

Contact Person: Dr. I. J. Kuppast(Principal)


Phone: 08182-279861

Address: National College of Pharma-cy, BalarajUrs Road, Shimoga-577201, Karanataka, India

Website: www.ncpsmg.org.in

New Horizon College of Engineering

Type: Private

Affiliation: Bangalore University, Karnataka

Courses: B.Tech Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. Manjunatha (Principal)

Email: [email protected], hodbte@ newhorizonindia.edu

Phone: 080-66297777

Address: New Horizon College of En-gineering, Ring Road, Near Marathalli, Bangalore-560103, Karnataka, India

Website: www.newhorizonindia.edu

Padmashree Group of Institutions

Type: Private


Courses: B.Sc. Genetics, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Msc Microbiology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry


Phone: 080 2321 1099 / 7664 / 2432 / 2433 / 5517 / 552

Address: Padmashree Group of In-stitutions,Nagarbhavi Circle, Banga-lore-560072, Karnataka, India

Website: www.padmashree.org


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REVA Institute of Science & Management

Type: Private


Year of Setup: 2002

Courses: B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biotechnology

Contact Person: R.Naliniprasad (Head, Deptt.of Biotechnology)


Phone: 080-65687563/64 /65

Address: REVA Institute of Science & Management, Rukmini Knowledge Park, Kattigenahalli,Yelahanka,Banga-lore -560064, Karnataka, India

Website: www.revainstitution.org

School of Life Sciences, Manipal University

Oxford College of Science

Type: Private


Year of Setup: 1994

Courses: B.Sc. in Microbiology, B.Sc. in Genetics, B.Sc. in Biochemistry, B.Sc. in Biotechnology, M.Sc. in Microbiology, M.Sc. in Biotechnol-ogy, M.Sc. in Biochemistry, M.Sc. in Applied Genetics

Contact Person: Chetana S.(Associate Professor and Coordinator)


Phone: 080-30266301, 080-30266351, 080-30266302

Address: Oxford College of Science, No.32, 17th B Main, Sector IV, HSR Layout, Bangalore-560102, Karnataka, India

Website: www.theoxford.edu

KarnatakaOxbridge College of Science and Commerce

Type: Private

Affiliation: Bangalore University and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Bangalore, as per respective courses

Approved: Government of Karnataka, AICTE, PCI

Courses: B.Sc. Biotechnology, Micro-biology, MBA in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. M. B. Mallikarjuna (HOD, Biotechnology)


Phone: 080-23246421, 080-23246423

Address: Oxbridge College of Science and Commerce, 7,8,9, Mahadeshwar Nagar Extnension.,Vishwaneed-ampost,Herohalli Cross, Magadi Main Road, Bangalore-91, Karnataka, India

Website: www.oxbridgecollege.in

PES Institute of Technology


Affiliation: VTU

Year of Setup: 1972

Courses: B.E Biotechnology


Phone: 080-26722108, 080-26721983

Address: PES Institute of Technol-ogy, 100 Feet Ring Road, BSK III Stage,Bangalore-560085, Karnataka, India

Website: www.pes.edu

Sir M Visvewsvaraya Institute of Technology

Type: Private

Affiliation: Visvesvaraya Technological University

Approved: AICTE

Accreditation: NBA Accreditated

Year of Setup: 2002

Courses: BE (Bio-Technology), M.Tech (Biotechnology and Biochemi-cal Engineering), M.Sc. (Engg) by Research, Ph.D

Contact Person: Dr. H G Nagendra (HOD)


Phone: 080-23493279

Address: Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Krishnadeveraya Nagar, Hunasamaranahalli, International Airport Road, Via-Yelahanka, Banga-lore-562157, Karnataka, India

Website: www.sirmvit.edu

Type: Private

Affiliation: Manipal University

Year of Setup: 2002

Courses: B.Sc. in Biotechnology, M.Sc. in Medical Biotechnology, M.Sc. in inBioinformatics, M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Human Genetics

Contact Person: Dr. K. Satyamoorthy (Director)


Phone: 0820-2922058, 0820-2923502

Address: School of Life Sciences, Manipal University, Life Sciences Rd, Eshwar Nagar, Manipal-576104, Karnataka, India

Website: www.manipal.edu


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St Aloysius College (Autonomous) (Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Chemistry, Physics, Biochemistry, Botany and Zoology

Contact Person:Rev Fr Swebert D’silva S.J (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Ronald Nazareth


Phone: 0824-2449703

Address: St Aloysius College, P.B. 729, Light House Hill Road, Manga-lore-575003, Karnataka, India

Website: www.staloysius.edu.in

St. Agnes College (Autonomous) (Under DBT Star College Scheme)




Contact Person: Dr. Sr. Prem D’souza A C (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Geetha Mable Pinto (Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry)


Phone: 0824-2218414, 0824-2223594

Address: St. Agnes College, Bendur, Mangalore-575002, Karnataka, India

Website: www.stagnescollege.org

Type: Autonomous Status


Approved: AICTE

Accreditation: NAAC

Year of Setup: 1973

Courses: B.E, M.Tech, Ph.D in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. N. Haraprasad (HOD of Biotechnology)


Phone: 0821- 2548285, 2548286, 2548287, 2548288, 2548289

Address: The Administrative Officer, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of En-gineering, Mysore- 570006, Karnataka, India

Website: www.sjcemysore.org

Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering

Soniya Education Trust’s College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore


Courses: D. Pharm, B. Pharm and M.Pharm

Contact Person: Dr. V. H. Kulkarni (Principal)


Phone: 09448148596, 0836-2448540

Address: Soniya Education Trust’s College of Pharmacy, SangolliRayanna Nagar, Dharwad -580002, Karnataka, India

Website: www.soniyapharmacy.org

KarnatakaSree SiddagangaCollege of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore

Approved: AICTE & Govt of Karnataka

Year of Setup: 1986

Courses: D. Pharm, B. Pharm , M. Pharm, Pharmacology, M. Pharm, Pharmaceutics

Contact Person: Dr. Suresh V. Kulkarni (Principal)


Phone: 0816-2273331, 09449294572

Address: Siddaganga College of Pharmacy, B. H Road, Tumkur -572102, Karnataka, India

Website: www.scptumkur.ac.in

St. George College of Management and Science

Type: Private


Approved: AICTE

Courses: B.Sc. (Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Genetics), B.Sc. (Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology), B.Sc. - (Microbiol-ogy, Chemistry, Zoology), Master of Science in Microbiology, Master of Science in Biochemistry, Master of Science in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. Fred Felix(Principal)


Phone: 080-25450193/194

Address: St.George College of Man-agement, Science & Nursing, OMBR Layout, Banaswadi, Bangalore-560043, Karnataka, India

Website: www.stgeorgecollege.org


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University of Mysore (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Prof. H.S. Prakash (Prof. & Chairman, Deptt. Of Applied Botany & Biotechnology)


Phone: 0821-2414450, 0821-2411467

Address: University of Mysore, Manasgangotri, Mysore-570006, Karnataka, India

Website: www.uni-mysore.ac.in

University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: M.Sc. Agricultural Biotech-nology




Contact Person: Dr. P. H. Ramanjini Gowda (Professor and Head)


Phone: 080-23636736, 080-65704098

Address: Department of Biotech-nology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore-560065, Karnataka, India

Website: www.uasbangalore.edu.in

University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Dr. P. U. Krishnaraj (Prof. & Head, Deptt. of Biotechnology, Institute of Agri.)


Phone: 0836-2747627/28

Address: University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad-580005, Karnataka, India

Website: www.uasd.edu

KarnatakaThe Karnataka State Women’s University


Year of Setup: 2003

Courses: M.Sc., Ph D.in Bioinformat-ics , M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Contact Person: Dr. Shivkumar Madagi


Phone: 08352-229025

Address: Karnataka State Women’s University, Jnanashakti, Torvi, Bi-japur-586108, Karnataka, India

Website: www.kswu.ac.in

The National Centre for Biological Sciences

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1982

Courses: Post Doctoral Program, Ph.D Program, Integrated Ph.D Program, Ibio Program, Md-Ph.D Program, M.Sc. Program

Contact Person: Satyajit Mayor(Director)


Phone: 080-23666001 /02 ; 080-23666018 /19

Address: National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK, Bellary Road, Bangalore-560065, Karnataka, India

Website: www.ncbs.res.in

T John College

Type: Private


Approved: AICTE

Accreditation: NAAC

Year of Setup: 1993

Courses: B.Sc. in Biotechnology, M.Sc. in Biotechnology, M.Sc. in Biochemistry

Contact Person: Dr. Shikha Tiwari


Phone: 080-28429624, 080-28429625, 080-40250555

Address: T John College, No. 88/1, Gottigere,Bannerghatta Road, Banga-lore-560083, Karnataka, India

Website: wwww.tjohncollege.com


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Contact Person: Dr. I.S. Bright Singh (Coordinator)


Phone: 0484-2381120

Address: National Centre for Aquatic Animal Health, Cochin Uni. of Sci. & Tech.,Lake Side Campus, Fine Arts Avenue, Kochi-682016, Kerala, India

Website: www.cusat.ac.in

University of Calicut (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Dr. P. R. Manish Kumar (Associate Professor)


Phone: 0494-2401972, 0494-2402771

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnology, University of Calicut, Calicut University P.O. Kozikode-673635, Kerala, India

Website: www.universityofcalicut.info

KarnatakaVydehi Institue of Biotech Sciences

Type: Private


Approved: Government of Karnataka

Year of Setup: 1982

Courses: M. Sc. Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. Sujatha Christo-pher (Principal)


Phone: 080-28413381/2/3/4/5

Address: Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, #82, Nallurahalli, Near BMTC 18th Depot, Whitefield, Bangalore-560066, Karna-taka, India

Website: www.vims.ac.in

KeralaAll Saint’s College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: Dr. Mabil P S (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Siny G. Benjamin (Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Zoology)


Phone: 0471-6452484

Address: All Saint’s College, Chack-ai P.O, Tiruvananthapuram-69509, Kerala, India

Website: www.allsaintscollege.in

Amrita Schoolof Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Amrita Vishwa Vidyap-eetham UniversityApproved: PCI & AICTE


Year of Setup: (B. Pharm.) 2005 and (M. Pharm.) 2008

Courses: B. Pharm , M. Pharm, Pharm D, Ph.D

Contact Person: Dr. Sabitha M.(Principal)


Phone: 0816-2273331, 09449294572

Address: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeeth-am University, AIMS Health Sciences Campus, AIMS Ponekkara P. O., Kochi-682041, Kerala, India

Website: www.amrita.edu/school-of-pharmacy

Amrita School of Biotechnology

Affiliation: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University

Accrediation: ‘A’ Grade by NAAC

Year of Setup: 2004

Courses: B.Sc. Biotechnology, B.Sc. Microbiology, MSc Biotechnology, M.Sc. Microbiology, MSc Bioinfor-matics, Ph.D Biotechnology, Ph.D Computational Neuroscience

Contact Person: Dr. Bipin Nair (Professor and Dean, School of Biotechnology)


Phone: 0476-2803000

Address: Amrita Vishwa Vidyap-eetham, Amritapuri, Clappana,Kol-lam-690525, Kerala, India

Website: www.biotech.amrita.edu

Cochin University of Science & Technology (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


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Kerala Agricultural University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Dr. M.R.Shylaja (Pro-fessor and Head)


Phone: 0487-2370822, 0487-2370592

Address: Centre for Plant Biotechnol-ogy & Molecular Biology, College of Horticulture, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellanikkara, Thrissur-680656, Kerala, India

Website: www.kau.edu

KeralaDevaki Amma Memorial College Of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Approved: AICTE

Courses: B.Pharm and M.Pharm (Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Analysis) programs


Phone: 0483-2891623

Address: Devaki Amma Memorial College of Pharmacy, Chelembra, Pulliparamba.Po, Malappuram. Dt-673634, Kerala, India

Website: www.devakiammamemorial.org

Indian Institute of Spices Research

Type: Public

Affiliation: Indian Institute of Spices Re-search has been recognized as a centre for doctoral studies by Mangalore University, University of Calicut, Kerala Agricultural University, Acharya Nagarjuna University and Kannur University in various subjects

Year of Setup:1976

Courses: Ph.D Program, M.Sc./M.Tech. Project, M.Phil. Thesis, Post M.Sc./M.Tech. Training

Contact Person: Dr.M Anandaraj(Director )


Phone: 0495-2731410

Address: Indian Institute of Spices Research, Marikunnu P O, Post Bag No. 1701, Kozhikode-673012, Kerala, India

Website:www.spices.res.in

Jamia Salafiya Pharmacy College

Type: Private

Affiliation: University of Calicut


Year of Setup: 2004

Courses: B. Pharma and M, Pharma and Diploma Course in Pharmacy

Contact Person: Prof. V.Jaya Singh (Principal)

Email: [email protected],[email protected]; [email protected]

Phone: 0483-2790108, 0483-2791261, 0483-2108197

Address: Jamia Salafiya Educational Association, Pulikkal, Malappuram District, Kozhikkode, Kerala, India

Website: www.jamiasalafiyapharmacy-college.com

Kannur University


Courses: MSc Biotechnology, MSc Microbiology

Contact Person: Shri. P. Sivappu (Director)


Phone: 0497-2784720, 0497-2785250

Address: Mangattuparamba, Kannur, kerala, Dr P.K. Rajan Rd, Mangat-tuparamba-670567, Kerala, India

Website: www.sde.kannuruniversity.ac.in

Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam


Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: M.Sc in Biochemistry, M.Sc in Biotechnology, M.Sc in Microbiolo-gy, M.Sc in Biophysics, M.Phil, Ph.D

Contact Person: Dr. J.G. Ray (Director)


Phone: 0481-2731050

Address: Athirampuzha Medical College Road, Priyadarshini Hills P.O, Athirampuzha, Kottayam- 686560, Kerala, India

Website: www.mguniversity.edu


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Supported Departments: Botany, Zoology and Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. K.M. Francis(Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. V.S. Jose-kumar (Associate Professor)


Phone: 0471-2531053, 0471-2532445, 0471-2532536

Address: Mar Ivanious College, Bethany Hills, Nalanchira Post, Tiru-vananthapuram-695015, Kerala, India

Website: www.marivanioscollege.ac.in

Mar Ivanious College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)

KeralaNehru College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Kerala University of Health and Allied Sciences


Courses: B.Pharm, M. Pharm, Pharm. D


Phone: 04884-281670, 04884-282070

Address: Nehru College of Pharmacy, Pampady, Near Lakkidi Railway Sta-tion, Thiruvilwamala, Thrissur Dt.-680597, Kerala, India

Website: www.nehrucolleges.in

Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology

Type: Autonomous National InstituteApproved: Government of India, DBT, Ministry of Science & Technology

Year of Setup: 1990

Courses: PhD program, Post doctoral Training

Contact Person: Dr. M.R.Das (Director)


Phone: 0471-2341716, 2347975 , 2348104, 2348753, 2345899

Address: Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thycaud Post, Poojap-pura,Thiruvananthapuram-695014, Kerala, India

Website: www.rgcb.res.in

Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum

Type: Public

Approved: Government of Kerala and Government of India

Year of Setup: 1981

Courses: The Regional Cancer Centre undertakes basic, translational and clinical research and disseminate the knowledge, PG Programs offered.

Contact Person: Surendran Nair V(Public Relations Officer)


Phone: 0471-2442541

Address: Regional Cancer Cen-tre, Medical College Campus, Post Bag No.2417, Thiruvananthapur-am-695011, Kerala, India

Website: www.rcctvm.org

Sahrdaya College of En-gineering & Technology

Type: Private

Affiliation: University of Calicut

Approved: AICTE, New Delhi & Approved by Govt. of Kerala

Accreditation: The Institution of Engi-neers (India)

Year of Setup: 2003

Courses: UG courses: Bio Technology Engineering, Bio Medical Engineering; PG courses : Industrial Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. Sudha George Valavi (Principal)


Phone: 0480-2726630 (8 Lines), 0480-2759275

Address: Sahrdaya College of Engi-neering & Technology, Kodakara, P.B. No.17, Thrissur Dt.-680684, Kerala, India

Website: www.sahrdaya.ac.in

Sree Buddha College of Engineering

Type: Private

Affiliation: University of Kerala

Approved: AICTE

Accreditation: NAAC

Year of Setup: 2002

Courses: B.Tech Biotechnology & Biochemical Engineering, M.Tech Biotechnology - Molecular Medicine

Contact Person: Dr. Somi Sebastian (Principal)


Phone: 0479-2375440/ 42 /43

Address: Sree Buddha College of Engineering, Pattoor P.O,. Padanilam, Nooranad, Alappuzha District-690529, Kerala, India

Website: www.sbce.ac.in


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Type: Private


Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 1995

Courses: (B.Tech) program in Biotech-nology and Biochemical Engineering

Contact Person: Prof. (Dr.) Shaji Senadhipan (Principal)

Phone: 0471-2493920

Address: SCT College of Engineering, Pappanamcode, Thiruvananthapur-am-18, Kerala, India

Website: www.sctce.ac.in

St. Albert’s College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Botany, Zoology, Aquaculture, Chemistry and Physics


Contact Person: Prof. T.P. Robert Stanley (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Ajith Thomas John (Assistant Professor, Department of Fisheries and Aqua-culture)


Phone: 0484-2391245, 0484-2394225

Address: St. Albert’s College, Ernakulam, Cohin-682018, Kerala, India

Website: www.alberts.ac.in

KeralaThe Govt. College for Women

Type: Public



Year of Setup: 1920

Courses: UG and PG Programs in Botony and Zoology

Contact Person: Dr. A.Mary Dorothy (Principal)


Phone: 0471-2324986

Address: Govt. COllege for Wom-en, CV Raman Pillai Rd, Bakery, Vazhuthacaud, Thiruvananthapur-am-695014, Kerala, India

Website: www.gcwtrivandrum.com

The Grace College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Kerala University of Health Sciences

Approved: AICTE, Pharmacy Council of india, New Delhi

Year of Setup: 2001

Courses: B.Pharm, M.Pharm (Phar-maceutics), M.Pharm (Pharmacy Practice), M.Pharm (Pharmaceutical Chemistry), M.Pharm (Pharmaceutical Analysis)

Contact Person: Dr.Y Haribabu (Principal)


Phone: 0491-2508537

Address: Grace College of Pharmacy, Kodunthirapully, Palakkad-678004, Kerala, India

Website: www.gracecollegeofpharma-cy.org

The National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology

Type: Public, constituent Laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Indus-trial Research(CSIR)

Year of Setup: 1975

Courses: Ph.D. programs, Short term trainings, Project works as a part of the M.Sc., M.Tech, M.Pharm, M.Phil Programs of colleges/Universities

Contact Person:Dr. Suresh Das(Director)


Phone: 0820-2922058, 0820-2923502

Address: National Institute for Inter-disciplinary Science and Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Thiruvananthapuram-695 019, Kerala, India

Website: www.niist.res.in

University of Kerala, Trivandrum


Year of Setup: 1995(Deptt. of Biotech-nology)

Courses: MSc Biotechnology, PhD Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. J.G. Ray (Director)


Phone: 0471-2305738

Address: University of Kerala, Near Aasan Square, 23, Palayam Airport Rd, Palayam, Thiruvananthapur-am-695037, Kerala, India

Website: www.keralauniversity.ac.in

Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering


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Madhya PradeshBarkatullah University


Accrediation: UGC and NAAC

Year of Setup: 1970

Courses: M.Sc Programs in Biotech-nology, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Genetics and Bioscience

Contact Person: Dr. Ragini Gothlwal

Phone: 09826184675

Address: Barkatullah University, Habib Ganj, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Website: www.bubhopal.nic.in

BR Nahata Collegeof Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Rajiv Gandhi Technical University (RGPV), Bhopal


Courses: D. Pharm, B. Pharm, M. Pharm (Pharmaceutics), M. Pharm (Pharmacognosy), M. Pharm. (Pharma-ceutical Chemistry), M. Pharm (Phar-macology), M. Pharm.(Pharmaceutical Analysis), Ph. D.(Pharmacy)

Contact Person: Dr. V. B. Gupta(Director)


Phone: 09981622999, 07422-285001

Address: B. R. Nahata College of Pharmacy, BRNSS Contract Research Center, P. B. No. 6, Mhow-Neemuch Road, Mandsaur-458001, Madhya Pradesh, India

Website: www.meu.edu.in

Devi Ahilya Vishwavidya-laya (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






No. of Faculty Members: 2 Contact Person: Prof. Anil Kumar (Professor & Head)Email: [email protected]: 0731-2470372

Address: School of Biotechnology, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Biotechnology building, Vigyan Bhavan, Indore-452001, Madhya Pradesh, IndiaWebsite: www.stat.dauniv.ac.in

Directorate of Weed Science Research

Type: Public

Approved: Approved of Govt. of India

Year of Setup: 1989

Courses: Research: projects mainly for assisted farming community through the scientific technologies developed, which are effectively utilized for allevi-ating the yield losses due to weedsin field crops

Contact Person: Dr. A.R. Sharma(Director )


Phone: 0761-2353138

Address: Directorate of Weed Science Research (DWSR), Maharajpur, Jabal-pur - 482004, Madhya Pradesh, India

Website: www.nrcws.org

HS Gour University, Sagar



Year of Setup: 1946

Courses: B.Sc, M Sc. Microbiology, Industrial Chemistry, Biotechnology

Contact Person: Prof. Pradeep Me-hta(Deptt. of Botony )


Phone: 07582-265822

Address: Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, Sagar-470003, Madhya Pradesh, India

Website: www.dhsgsu.ac.in

Indian Institute of Soil Science

Type: Public (Established by ICAR)

Year of Setup: 1988

Courses: Basic and strategic research on soils especially physical, chemical and biological processes related to management of nutrients, water and energy; Ph.D programs

Contact Person: Dr. A. Subba Rao(Director)


Phone: 0755-2730946

Address: Nabibagh, Berasia Road, Bhopal-462038, Madhya Pradesh, India

Website: www.iiss.nic.in


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Courses: M.V.Sc. (Animal Biotechnol-ogy)




Contact Person: Dr. B.C. Sarkhel, In-charge (Course Coordinator)


Phone: 0761-2681089

Address: Animal Biotechnology Centre, Madhya Pradesh Pashu Chikitsa Vigyan Vishwavidyalaya (MPCVV) (Formerly JNKVV), Jabalpur-482004, Madhya Pradesh, India

Website: www.mppcvv.org

MPP Chikitsa Vigyan Vishwavidyalaya (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Madhya Pradesh


Courses: M.Sc. Neurosciences




Contact Person: Dr. Ishan Patro


Phone: 0751-2442789, 0751-4016789

Address: Neuroscience Centre (School of Studies in Neuroscience), Jiwaji University, Gwalior-474011,Madhya Pradesh, India

Website: www.jiwaji.edu

Jiwaji University(DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya Type: Public (State University)

Year of Setup: 1998

Courses: M.Tech Biotechnology, M. Pharma

Contact Person: Dr. Archana Tiwari (HOD of Biotechnology)


Phone: 0755-2678833, 0755-2678870

Address: Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, (Technological University of the State of Madhya Pradesh) Abbas Nagar, Gandhinagar, Bhopal-462033, Madhya Pradesh, India

Website: www.rgpv.ac.in

Rani Durgawati University

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: B.Sc. (H) in Microbiology and Biotechnology, M.Sc. Microbiolo-gy, M.Sc. Biochemistry, M.Sc. Biotech-nology, M Phil Microbiology, M Phil Biotechnology, M.Phil Biochemistry

Contact Person: Prof. Y.K. Bansal (HOD)


Phone: 0761-2600567/68, 0761-2608704

Address: Saraswati Vihar, Pachpedi, Jabalpur-482001, Madhya Pradesh, India

Website: www.rdunijbpin.org

Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science

Type: Private

Affiliation: Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidhyalaya, Bhopal

Approved: All India Council for Tech-nical Education (AICTE)

Year of Setup: 1952

Courses: B.Pharma., M.Pharm(Me-dicinal Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Industrial Pharmacy)

Contact Person: DR. T. R. Saini (HOD Pharmacy)


Phone: 0731-2434095, 2538760, 2541567, 2548334/38

Address: Shri Govindram Seksaria In-stitute of Technology and Science, 23, Park Road, Indore-452003, Madhya Pradesh, India

Website: www.sgsitsindore.in


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Birla College of Arts, Science & Commerce (Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics and Microbiology

Contact Person: Dr Naresh Chandra (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Geeta Unnikrishnan (Head, Deptt. of Zoology)


Phone: 0251-2232930, 0251-2230740, 0251-2231196

Address: Birla College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Kalyan, Birla College Road, Kalyan (W)-421304, Maharash-tra, India

Website: www.birlacollege.org

MaharashtraAgharkar Research Institute (ARI)

Type: Autonomous

Year of Setup: 1946

Courses: Focus on research on three broad areas: Animal Sciences, Microbial sciences, Plant sciences

Contact Person: Dr. K. M. Paknikar(Director)


Phone: 09826184675

Address: Agharkar Research Institute,-Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Road, Pune- 411004, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.aripune.org

Amravati University

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: M.Sc. and Ph.D courses in Biotechnology, Microbiology, Zoology, Botony; Certificate course in Plant Tissue Culture (Self Financing Course)

Contact Person: Dr. M. K. Rai (Professor and Head)


Phone: 09422857196, 0721-2662173, 0721-2662373, 0721-2662358

Address: SGB Amravati University, Amravati-444602, Maharashtra, India

Website: www. sgbau.ac.in

Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Poo-na College of Pharmacy

Type: Autonomous National Institute

Affiliation: Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Deemed University

Accreditation: ‘A’ GRADE by NAAC

Approved: AICTE, PCI & UGC

Year of Setup: 1981

Courses: B.Pharm., M.Pharm.in six branches of specialization: Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy, Quality Assurance Tech-niques, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. K. R. Mahadik


Phone: 020- 25437237

Address: Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed UniversityPoona College of Pharmacy, Erandwane,Pune-411038,Maharashtra, India

Website: ww.pcp.bharatividyapeeth.edu

Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Pharmacy

Affiliation: Mumbai University


Year of Setup: 1993

Courses: B. Pharmacy, M. Pharmacy, Ph.D.

Contact Person: Dr.Vilasrao J. Kadam (Principal)


Phone: 022-27571122,022-27572131

Address: Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Pharmach, Sector - 8, C.B.D. Be-lapur, Navi Mumbai-400 614, Maharashtra, India

Website: www. copmumbai.bharativ-idyapeeth.edu

Bhavan’s College

Type: Private

Affiliation: University of Mumbai


Year of Setup: 1946

Courses: B.Sc. Zoology, Botany, Bio-technology, Microbiology

Contact Person: Dr. (Mrs.) V.I. Katchi(Principal)


Phone: 022-26256451/ 52

Address: Bhavan’s College, Mun-shi Nagar, Andheri (West), Mum-bai-400058, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.dhsgsu.ac.in

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MaharashtraDr. Arvind B. Telang College of Arts, Commerce and Science

Type: Private


Year of Setup: 1998

Courses: Physics, Microbiology, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology

Contact Person: Dr. Prakash Daulatrao Patil (Principal)


Phone: 020-27658596

Address: Dr. Arvind B. Telang College of Arts, Commerce and Science. Sector No. 27-A, Pradhikaran Nigdi, Pune-4411044, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.cesabt.ac.in

Central Institute for Cotton Research

Type: Public (Under ICAR)

Year of Setup:1976

Courses: Research on cotton improve-ment, development of production technologies and innovative crop protection strategies

Contact Person: Dr K R Kranthi(Director)


Phone: 07103-275538, 275549, 275617, 275620

Address: Central Institute for Cotton Research, Post Bag No.2, Shankar Nagar Post Office, Nagpur-440010, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.cicr.org.in

DCSs Annasaheb Ramesh Ajmera College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: North Maharashtra Uni-versity, Jalgaon

Approved: AICTE, DTE & PCI

Year of Setup: 1994

Courses: B.Pharmacy, M.Pharmacy(Pharmaceutics, Quality Assurance, Pharmacognosy)

Contact Person: Dr. Rajendra.D. Wagh (Princpal)


Phone: 02562-243021

Address: Annasaheb Ramesh Ajmera College of Pharmacy, 312/B, Mumbai - Agra Highway, Nagaon, Dhule-424005, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.aracop.dcsdhule.org

Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University

Type: Private

Accreditation: ‘B+’ Grade by NAAC

Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: B.Sc Biotechnology,Bioin-formatics , M.Sc Biotechnology, M.Sc Biochemistry, M.Sc Microbiology

Contact Person: Dr.S.P.Zambare (Director)


Phone: 2403302

Address: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, University Campus, Aurangabad-431004, Maha-rashtra, India

Website: www.bamu.ac.in

Dr DY Patil Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Institute



Courses: B.Tech( Biotechnology), B.Tech (Bioinformatics), B.Tech (Med-ical Biotechnology), M.Tech (Integrat-ed) in Biotechnology, M.Sc. Biotech-nology, M.Sc. Bioinformatics, Ph. D. Biotechnology, Ph. D. Bioinformatics

Contact Person: Dr. M. Khetmalas(Director)


Phone: 020-65101870, 020-65101871

Address: Dr DY Patil Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Institute, Mum-bai-Bangalore High way, Tathawade, Pune 411033 India.

Website: www. biotech.dpu.edu.in

Enterovirus Research Centre

Type: Public

Affiliation: ERC is recognized by the University of Mumbai for M. Sc., and Ph. D degrees in Microbiology

Accreditation: ERC is accredited by the WHO for poliovirus investigations

Year of Setup: 1981

Courses: M. Sc., and Ph. D degrees in Microbiology. Conducts research on diseases caused by Enteroviruses, especially paralytic poliomyelitis, acute flaccid paralysis, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, aseptic meningitis/ encephalitis and acute gastroenteritis caused by enteric viruses such as Rota-virus, Norovirus and enteroviruses


Phone: 022 -24134130

Address: Entrovirus research Centre, Haffkine Institute Campus, Acharya Donde Marg, Parel, Mumbai-400012 Maharashtra, India

Website: www.icmr.nic.in/pinstitute/evrc.htm

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Institute of Chemical Technology (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)



Sanctioned Student Intake: 30Mode of Admission: GATE & Institute Exam


Contact Person: Dr. Arvind Lali (Coordinator)


Phone: 022-33611111/ 2222

Address: Instt. of Chemical Technol-ogy, (formerly UDCT), University of Mumbai, Nathalal Parekh Margh, Matunga, Mumbai- 400019, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.ictmumbai.edu.in

Govt. Vidarbha Institute of Science and Human-ities (Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: Dr. S.N. Malode(Coordinator)


Phone: 0721-2531512

Address: Govt. Vidarbha Institute of Science and Humanities, Near KathoraNaka, VMV Road, Amravati–444606, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.gvishamt.org

Indian Institute of Tech-nology (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)




Mode of Admission: JAM Entrance Exam


Contact Person: Prof. Rohit Manchanda (Professor & Head)


Phone: 022-25767770/1/6, 022-25723480

Address: Deptt.of Biosciences & Bio-engineering, Indian Instt. of Technol-ogy, Mumbai-400076, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.cse.iitb.ac.in

Maharashtra

Institute of Chemical Technology (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: M.Tech Food Biotechnology (Food Engg. and Tech. Deptt.)

Sanctioned Student Intake:10



Contact Person: Dr. A. Laxmi(Coordinator, Food Biotechnology, Reader in Food Chemistry)


Phone: 022-24145616

Address: Food Engg. and Tech. Deptt., Institute of Chemical Tech-nology, Deemed University, Nathalal Parekh Marg, Matunga (E), Mum-bai-400019, Mahrashtra, India

Website: www.ictmumbai.edu.in

Government College of Pharmacy

Type: Public

Year of Setup: B.Pharma started in 1996

Courses: B.Pharm, M. Pharm (Pharma-cognosy and Phytochemistry), M.Pharm (Quality Assurance), Pharm. D

Contact Person: Dr. V. K. Mourya(Principal)

Phone: 0721-253 0353

Address: Govt. College of Pharmacy, Kathora Naka, Holywood Nagar, Amra-vati-444604, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.gcopamravati.ac.in

Guru Nanak College of Arts, Science & Commerce



Year of Setup: 1974

Courses: B.Sc. Biotechnology, Botany, Microbiology, Zoology, M.Sc. Bio-analytical Sciences, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Microbiology

Phone: 022-24096234

Address: GN Khalsa College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Nathalal Parekh Marg, Matunga East, Mumbai-400019, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.gnkhalsa.edu.in


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Jankidevi Bajaj College of Science(Under DBT Star College Scheme)

Maharashtra Animal & Fishery Sciences Univer-sity (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: M.V.Sc Animal Biotechnology




Contact Person: Dr. D.R. Kalorey(Professor and Head)


Phone: 0712-2510087

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnology & Animal Biotechnology Teaching & Research cell, Nagpur Veterinary College, MAFSU, Seminary Hills, Nag-pur-440006, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.mafsu.in

K.C.E. Society’s MooljiJaitha College (Under DBT Star College Scheme)

Maharashtra


Supported Departments: Botany, Zoology, Computer Science, Chemis-try, Physics, Microbiology, Biochemis-try and Biotechnology

Contact Person: Anil Govind Rao (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. K.P. Narkhede (Assistant Professor & Head, Deptt. of Microbiology)


Phone: 0257-2237874, 0257-2234281

Address: K.C.E. Society’s MooljiJaitha College, Jalgaon-425002, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.mjcollege.kces.in

K.I.T.’s College of Engineering, Kolhapur

Type: Private

Affiliation: Shivaji University, Kolhapur

Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: UG and PG courses in Biotechnology

Contact person: Dr. Meena M. Pillai (Professor & HOD)


Phone: 0231-2638141

Address: KIT’s College Of Engi-neering, Gokul Shirgaon, Kolha-pur-416012, Maharashtra, India

Website: www. kitcoek.in

Kishinchand Chellaram College

Type: Private


Year of Setup: 1954

Courses: B.Sc. in Biotechnology, Bio-chemistry, M.Sc. Microbiology

Contact Person: Miss Manju. J. Nichani (Principal))


Phone: 022-22855726

Address: Kishinchand Chellaram College, 124, Dinshaw Wachha Road, Churchgate,Mumbai-400020, Maha-rashtra, India

Website: www.kccollege.org.in

KJ Somaiya College

Type: Autonomous



Year of Setup: 1954

Courses: B.Sc. Biotech, MSc Biochem-istry, Microbiology, Environmental Science, Biotechnology, Botany

Contact Person: Dr. Sudha Vyas (Principal)


Phone: 022-21022915

Address: K J Somaiya College of Arts and Commerce, Vidyanagar, Vidyavi-har (E), Mumbai-400077, Maharash-tra, India

Website: www.somaiya.edu


Supported Departments: Botany, Zo-ology, Chemistry and Microbiology

Contact Person: Dr. Om Ashok Maho-daya (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. M.R. Chan-drakar (Assistant Professor)


Phone: 07152-230515

Address: Jankidevi Bajaj College of Science, Jamnalal Bajaj Marg, Civil Lines, Wardha-442001, Maharashtra, India

Website: jbsw.shikshamandal.org


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Marathwada Agriculture University, Latur (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: M.Sc. Agricultural Biotechnology




Contact Person: Dr. H. B. Patil (Associate Dean and Principal)


Phone: 02382-251366

Address: Marathwada Agri. Universi-ty, Latur-4135412, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.mkv2.mah.nic.in

Mahatma Gandhi Mis-sion’s College of Engg.

Type: Private


Courses: Biotech Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Contact Person: Dr.(Mr) Santosh K. Narayankhedkar (Principal)


Phone: 022-27423403

Address: Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s College of Engg., at Junction NH4 andSion - Panvel Expressway, Kamothe -410209, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.mgmmumbai.ac.in

Marathwada University, Nanded



Year of Setup: 1994

Courses: M.Sc. in biotechnology, Microbiology, Botony, Zoology, Integrated Biotechnology

Contact Person: Prof. C. N. Khobragade (Director of School of Life Sciences)


Phone: 02462-229242, 02462-229243

Address: Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Vishnupu-ri, Nanded-431606, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.srtmun.ac.in

ME Society’s Abasaheb Garware College

Type: Private

Affiliation: University of Pune


Year of Setup: 1952

Courses: B.Sc and M.Sc in Biotech-nology, Botony, Zoology, Microbiology

Contact Person: Mrs. Madhura Damle (Deptt. Head)


Phone: 020-41038200

Address: Maharashtra Education Society’s, Abasaheb Garware College, Karve Road, Pune-411004, Maharash-tra, India

Website: www.mesgarwarecollege.org

MET Institute of Pharmacy

Type: Private



Year of Setup: 1993

Courses: D. Pharm., B. Pharm., M.Pharm

Contact Person: Dr. Abha Doshi (Principal)


Phone: 022-26440446

Address: Mumbai Educational Trust, Bhujbal Knowledge Centre, Bandra Reclamation, Bandra (West), Mum-bai-400050, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.met.edu/institutes

MG Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha


Year of Setup: 1969

Courses: Microbiology

Phone: 07152-284341/55

Address: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Wardha- 442102, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.mgims.ac.in

Maharashtra


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Modern College of Arts, Science & Commerce(Under DBT Star College Scheme)

MaharashtraModern College of Arts, Science & Commerce(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Botany, Zool-ogy, Biotechnology and Microbiology


Contact Person: Dr. R.S. Zunjarrao(Principal)

Program Coordinator: Prof. S.R. Chaudhari (Vice Principal & HOD of Electronic Science)

Email: [email protected], moderncollege-pune.com, [email protected]

Phone: 020-25535927, 020-25535102

Address: Modern College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Shivajinagar, Pune- 411005, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.moderncollegepune.com

National AIDS Research Institute

Type: Public


Year of Setup: 1992

Courses: Multi-disciplinary research involving virology, immunology, microbiology, clinical research, epide-miology, field based trials and social and behavioral research; Provide Ph.D Program & Training opportunities

Contact Person: Dr. R.S. Paranjape(Director)


Phone: 020-27331200

Address: National Aids Research In-stitute, 73, ‘G’-Block, MIDC, Bhosari, Pune -411026, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.nari-icmr.res.in

National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning

Type: Public ( Belong to the chain of ICAR Institutes)

Year of Setup: 1976

Courses: In the areas of Soil Survey, Pedology, Geomorphology, Remote Sensing, Geographic Information System, Cartography, Land Evaluation and Land Use Planning

Contact Person: Dr. Surendra Kumar Singh (Director


Phone: 0712-2500386, 0712-2500545

Address: Director, NBSS & LUP, Am-ravati Road, Nagpur-440033, Maha-rashtra, India

Website: www.nbsslup.in

National Chemical Laboratory

Type: Public (A constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

Year of Setup: 1950

Courses: Internationally known for its excellence in scientific research in chem-istry and chemical engineering as well as for its track record of industrial research involving partnerships with industry from concept to commercialization. Provides: Ph.D in disciplines of Chemi-cal, Physical, Biological and Engineering Sciences; M.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering; Projects (Dissertation projects of B.Tech and Msc.)

Contact Person: Dr. Sourav Pal(Director)


Phone: 020-25902000, 020-25893400

Address: CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune- 411008, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.ncl-india.org

MGV’s Pharmacy College

Type: Private

Affiliation: University of Pune and Approval: AICTE

Year of Setup: 1993

Courses: B. Pharm, M.Pharma in Phar-maceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy, Quality Assurance

Contact Person: Dr. Rajendra Sudhakar Bhambar (Principal)


Phone: 0253-2515620

Address: Mahatma Gandhi Vidyaman-dir’s Pharmacy College, Mumbai-Agra Road, Panchavati, Nashik-422003, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.mgv.org.in


Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Microbiol-ogy, Mathematics, Statistics, Electronics and Biotechnology


Contact Person: Dr. Sanjay Kharat(Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Vinay Kumar (Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Biotechnology)


Phone: 020-25634021 020-25634021

Address: Modern College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Ganeshkhind, Pune-411053, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.moderncollegegk.org


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MaharashtraNational Environmental Engineering Research Institute

Type: Public (A constituent of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi)

Year of Setup: 1958

Courses: NEERI is devoted to research and innovations in environmental sci-ence and engineering besides solving a range of problems posed by industry, government and public

Contact Person: Satish R Wate (Director)


Phone: 0712-2249885/88, 2249970/72

Address: National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur-440020, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.neeri.res.in

National Institute of Virology (Microbial Containment Complex)

Type: Public (A premier institute of the ICMR)

Affiliation: Conducts courses under aegis of University of Pune

Year of Setup: 1978

Courses: M.Sc. Virology and Ph.D programs; Short-term projects for students from different colleges and universities; Workshops for newly introduced and classical techniques

Contact Person: Dr. DT Mourya (Director)


Phone: 020-26006390, 020 -26127301

Address: MCC 130/1 Sus Road, Pashan, India, Pune-411021, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.niv.co.in

National Institute for Research in Reproduc-tive Health

Type: Public (A premier institute of the ICMR )

Affiliation: Conducts courses under aegis of University of Mumbai

Year of Setup: 1970

Courses: Carries out research on various components of reproductive health. Provides: M.Sc. and Ph.D programs; Short term trainings

Contact Person: Dr. S.D. Kholkute(Director)


Phone: 022-24192000

Address: National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Jehangir Merwanji Street, Parel, Mum-bai-400012, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.nirrh.res.in

National Research Centre for Grapes

Type: Public (under Indian Council of Agricultural Research)

Year of Setup: 1997

Courses: Involving basic and strategic research for resolving the major biotic and abiotic constraints affecting the production, productivity and utiliza-tion of grapes

Contact Person: Dr. S.D Shikhamany (Director)


Phone: 020-26956000

Address: National Research Centre for Grapes (ICAR), P.B. No. 3, P.O. Manjri Farm, Solapur Road, Pune-412307, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.nrcgrapes.nic.in

NDMVP Samajs College of Pharmacy

Type: Public


Approved: PCI

Year of Setup: 1982

Courses: B.Pharm, M.Pharm in Phar-macognosy, Pharmaceutics, Pharma-cology, Quality Assurance Techniques and Ph.D.

Contact Person: Dr Deeliprao Vishram Derle (Principal)


Phone: 0253-2577250

Address: NDMVO Samajs College of Pharmacy, MVP Campus, Gangapur Road , P.B. No.429, (Gole Colony Post) Shivaji Nagar, Nashik-422002,Maharashtra, India

Website: www.mvpcpn.com

National Education Society’s Ratnam College

Type: Private



Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: B.Sc

Contact Person: Rina Saha

Phone: 022-25951381

Address: NES Complex, National High School Marg, Bhandup, Mumbai-400078, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.ratnamcollege.org


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Padmashri Vikhe Patil College of Arts, Science & Commerce(Under DBT Star College Scheme)

MaharashtraPadmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Pharmaceuti-cal Sciences & Research

Type: Private


Courses: B.Pharm., M.Pharm specializations: Pharmaceutics, Phar-macology, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Quality Assurance Techniques, Ph.D. Specialization: Pharmaceutics, Phar-macology, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacognosy

Contact Person: Dr. Sohan S. Chit-lange (Principal)

Phone: 020-27420026, 020-27420261

Address: Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Research, Sant Tukaram Nagar, Pim-pri, Pune -411018, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.dypvp.edu.in


Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Environ-mental Science, Computer Science and Biotechnology


Contact Person: Dr. S. R. Walunj(Principal)


Phone: 02422-273425/26

Address: Padmashri Vikhe Patil College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Pravaranagar, Air Port. Loni (Kd), Tal. Rahata, Dist. Ahmednagar-413713, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.pravarapvpcollege.org.in

Patkar College of Arts & Science

Type: Private


Year of Setup: 1964

Courses: B.Sc. Botany, Zoology, biotechnology, Microbiology; M.Sc. Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Botany

Contact Person: Dr. M. B. Kekare (Principal)


Phone: 022-28723731/ 2872 1875

Address: Patkar College of Arts & Science, S. V. Road, Goregaon (West), Mumbai-400062, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.patkarvardecollege.edu.in

Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences

Type: Private (Deemed University)

Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 2003

Courses: M.Sc. in Medical Biotech-nology; B.Sc.+M.Sc. Medical Biotech-nology Integrated Program

Contact Person: Dr. Kamble Suresh Pandurang

Email: [email protected] , [email protected]

Phone: 02422–271350, 09970451526

Address: Pravara Institute of Med-ical Sciences (Deemed University), A/p: Loni Tal:Rahata, Dist:Ahmed-nagar-413736, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.pravara.com

Principal K.M.Kundnani College of Pharmacy

Type: Private


Approved : AICTE & PCI

Accreditation: National Board Accreditation (NBA), New Delhi

Year of Setup: 1971

Courses: B.Pharm. M.Pharm. (Phar-maceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacognosy, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Pharmacology)

Contact Person: Dr. (Mrs.) P.M.D’mello (Principal)


Phone: 022-22164368/ 22164387

Address: Principal K. M. Kundnani College of Pharmacy, Jote Joy Build-ing, Rambhau Salgaonkar Road, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai-40005, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.kmkcp.com

North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon



Year of Setup: 1991

Courses: Microbiology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology M.Sc. courses

Contact Person: Prof. V. L. Maheshwari(Director )


Phone: 0257-2257250

Address: North Maharashtra Univer-sity, P. O. Box No. 80, Umavi Nagar, Jalgaon- 425001, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.nmu.ac.in


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Ramnarain Ruia College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Botany, Chemistry, Life Sciences, Microbiolo-gy, Physics and Zoology

Contact Person: Prof. (Dr) Suhas Pednekar (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Sunita Shailajan


Phone: 022-24143098

Address: Ramnarain Ruia College, L.N. Road, Matunga, Mumbai-400019, Maharshtra, India

Website: www.ruiacollege.edu

MaharashtraR. C. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research

Type: Private

Affiliation: North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon

Approved: AICTE, PCI & Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai

Year of Setup: 1964

Courses: D.Pharm, B.Pharm, M.Pharm

Contact Person: Prof. Dr. S. J. Surana


Phone: 02563-255189, 02563-251809

Address: R.C. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research,Karwand Naka, Shirpur-425405, Dhule, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.rcpatelpharmacy.co.in

Rajiv Gandhi Institute of IT & BT (RGITBT)

Type: Private

Affiliation: Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University (BVDU)


Courses: B.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Medical Biotech-nology & M.Sc. Bioinformatics, Ph.D. in Biotechnology, Ph. D. in Bioinfor-matics

Contact Person: Dr. G. D. Sharma (Principal)


Phone: 020-24379013

Address: RGITBT, Pune Satara Road, Katraj-Dhankawadi, Pune-411043, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.rgitbt.bharatividyap-eeth.edu

Ramnirajan Jhunjhunwala College

Type: Self-financing


Year of Setup: 2002 (Deptt. of Biotech-nology)

Courses: B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D Programs in Biotechnology, Botony, Zoology

Contact Person: Dr. Usha Mukundan


Phone: 022-25152731, 022-25151763

Address: Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College, Opposite Ghatkopar Railway Station, Ghatkopar West, Mumbai 400086, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.rjcollege.edu.in

RD National College

Type: Private


Year of Setup: 1997

Courses: B.Sc. in Biotechnology, M.Sc. in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dinesh Panjwani (Principal)


Phone: 022-26483544, 022- 26041777

Address: RD National College, Off Linking Road, Bandra West, Mumbai-400050, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.rdnational.ac.in

Rizvi College of Arts, Science & Commerce

Type: Private ( Rizvi Education Society is a Public Charitable Trust)

Year of Setup: 1950

Courses: B.E. in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. Varsha Shah (Principal)


Phone: 022-26052072

Address: Rizvi Education Society, Rizvi House, 1st Floor, Junction of Hill Road & St. Martin Road, Bandra, Mumbai-400050, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.rizvi.edu.in


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Courses: M.Sc. Environ. Biotechnology




Contact Person: S.P. Govindwar(Prof. & Head)


Phone: 0231-2690571, 0231-2609152

Address: Deptt. of Biochemistry, Shivaji University, Vidyanagar,Kolha-pur-416004, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.unishivaji.ac.in

Shivaji University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

RTM Nagpur University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Prof. S. S. Pande (Coordinator)


Phone: 0712-2560620, 0712-2536223

Address: Rajiv Gandhi Biotechnology Centre, L.I. T. Premises, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur-440033, Maha-rashtra, India

Website: nagpuruniversity.org

S.S.V.P.S’s L.K. Dr. P. R. Ghogrey Science College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments:Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology

Contact Person: Prof. Dr. D.A. Patil (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Nitin Kumar P. Patil


Phone: 02562-272562

Address: Dr. P. R. Ghogrey Science College, Deopur, Dhule-424005, Ma-harashtra, India

MaharashtraSheth LU Jhaveri College of Arts & Sir MV College of Science & Commerce

Type: Private


Year of Setup: 1963

Courses: B.Sc Biotechnology

Contact Person: Jyoti V.Gaitonde


Phone: 022-66992022

Address: Shri M.V.L.U of Commerce and Science, Dr. S. Radhakrisnan Marg, Andheri (East), Mumbai-400069, Maharashtra, India

Website: mvlucollege.in

Shivnagar Vidya Prasarak Mandal’s College of Phamacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Pune University

Year of Setup: 1994

Courses: B. Pharmacy, D.Pharma

Phone: 02112-254216

Address: Shivnagar Vidya Prasarak Mandal’s College of Pharmacy, Malegaon (Bk.), Baramati, Pune-413115, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.svpm.edu.in

SIES College

Type: Private



Courses: B.Sc. Microbiology, Biotech-nology; M.Sc. Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. Harsha K. Mehta (Principal)


Phone: 022-24072729

Address: SIES College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Jain Society, Sion (West), Mumbai-400022, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.siesascs.net


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St. Xavier’s College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Botany, Life Science & Biochemistry, Microbiology & Biotechnology, Zoology, Chemistry and Physics

Contact Person: Dr. Frazer Mascar-enhas S.J (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Ms. Ujwala C. Bapat (Head, Deptt. of Botany)


Phone: 022-22620661, 022-22659484

Address: St. Xavier’s College, 5, MahapalikaMarg, Mumbai-400 001, Maharshtra, India

Website: www.xaviers.edu

MaharashtraSophia College

Type: Private


Accreditation: NAAC

Year of Setup: 1941

Courses: Microbiology, Life sciences, and Biochemistry

Contact Person: Dr. Ananda Amrit-mahal (Principal)


Phone: 022-23523304

Address: Sophia College, Bhulabhai Desai Road, Mumbai-400026, Maha-rashtra, India

Website: www.sophiacollegemumbai.com

Symbiosis School of Biomedical Sciences

Type : Private

Affiliation: A constituent of Symbiosis International University, Pune


Year of Setup: 2011 (SSBS)

Courses: M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Nutrition & Dietetics, M.Sc. Biomed-ical Sciences (Drug Discovery and Development), PhD Programs

Contact Person: Dr. Abhay Saraf(Acting Director)


Phone: 020-39116496, 020-39116489

Address: SSBS, Constituent of Sym-biosis International University (SIU), Symbiosis Knowledge Village, Gram- Lavale, Taluka- Mulshi, Dist- Pune-412115, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.ssbs.edu.in

Tapi Valley Education Society’s College Of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon

Approved : AICTE & PCI

Year of Setup: 1994

Courses: B.Pharma & M.Pharma Pharmacognosy, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Quality Assurance Tech-nique, Pharmaceutics

Contact Person: Prof. (Dr.) V.R.Patil.(Principal)


Phone: 2585-245574

Address: Tapi Valley Education Society’sCollege Of Pharmay, Nehru Vidyanagar, Faizpur, Dist : Jalgaon- 425503, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.copfaizpur.org

Type: Private


Approved : AICTE

Accreditation: National Board of Accreditation (NBA)

Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: Bio-tech Engineering

Contact Person: Dr.Gopakumaran T. Thampi (Principal)


Phone: 022-26495808, 022-26488830

Address: Thadomal Shahni Engg. Col-lege, P. G. Kher Marg, (32nd Road), TPS-III Off Linking Road. Bandra (West), Mumbai-400050, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.tsec.edu

Thadomal Shahni Engg. College

The Fergusson College

Type: Private



Courses: B.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. Ravindrasinh G. Pardeshi (Principal)


Phone: 020-66866000

Address: Fergusson College, F.C. Road, Pune-411004, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.fergusson.edu


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Vidya Pratishthan’s, Arts, Science & Commerce College (Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Microbi-ology and Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. ArunAdsool. D (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Sushma Chaphalkar (Coordinator)


Phone: 02112-243488, 02112-239300

Address: Vidya Pratishthan’s, Arts,-Science& Commerce College, Vidyanagari, Baramati, Dist. Pune-413133, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.vidyapratishthan.org

Vidya Bharti Mahavidya-laya (Under DBT Star College Scheme)




Contact Person:Dr. F.C. Raghuwanshi (Principal)


Phone: 0721-2662740

Address: Vidya Bharti Mahavidyalaya, C.K. Naidu Road, Camp- Amrava-ti-444602, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.vbirsm.org

University of Pune(DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Prof. J.K. Pal(Prof. & Head)


Phone: 020-25694952, 020-25692248

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnology, University of Pune, Ganeshkhind, Pune-411007, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.unipune.ac.in

MaharashtraThe Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Year of Setup: 1960

Courses: M.Sc., Integrated Ph.D., and Ph.D. programs

Contact Person: Mustansir Barma(Director)


Phone: 022-22782000

Address: Tata Institute of Fundamen-tal Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai- 400005, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.tifr.res.in

Vasantdada Sugar Institute

Type: Public (Autonomous Body)

Year of Setup: 1975

Courses: M.Sc. Environmental Science

Contact Person: Dr. Meena M. Pillai (Prof & HOD)


Phone: 020–26902100

Address: Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Manjari Budruk, Tal.: Haveli, Dist.: Pune-412307, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.vsisugar.com

The Institute of Science

Type: Public, Govt of Maharashtra Institution


Year of Setup: 2003-04 (Deptt. of Biotechnology)

Courses: M.Sc .Biotechnology, Bio-chemistry, Microbiology, Environment

Contact Person: Dr. Debjani Dasgupta (Coordinator)

Phone: 022-22844219, 022- 22829293 Extn. 163/ 213/ 214

Address: The Institute of Science, Mumbai-400032, Maharashtra, India


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S. Kula Women’s College (Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Biotech-nology, Computer Science, Food Tech-nology, Mathematics and Statistics

Contact Person: Dr. L. Birenderaku-mar Singh (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. W. Robin-dro Singh (Head, Deptt. of Biotech-nology)


Phone: 0385-2453428

Address: S. Kula Women’s College, Kongkhampat, Nambol-795134, Manipur, India

Website: www.skwomenscollege.ac.in

Imphal College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)

Lilong Haoreibi College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: Md. Khalilur Rahman (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Md. Riyajuddin Khan (Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Botany)


Phone: 08014911431, 09856417955

Address: LilongHaoreibi College, Li-long, Thoubal Dist. Manipur-795130, India

Vivekanand College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Microbi-ology and Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. Hindurao Babu-rao Patil (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. P.B. Kale (Associate Professor, Deptt. of Zoology)


Phone: 0231-2658840

Address: Vivekanand College, Kolhapur-416003, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.vivekanandcollege.org

MaharashtraV. G. Vaze College

Type: Private



Courses: B.Sc. in Biotechnology, M.Sc. in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. B.B.Sharma (Principal)

Phone: 022-21631421, 022-21631423

Address: Kelkar Education Trust’s V.G.Vaze College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Mithagar Road, Mu-lund(East), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Website: www.vazecollege.net

Maharashtra Manipur


Year of Setup: 1980

Courses: Integrated M.Sc. Biotechnol-ogy, M.Sc. (Botany/Zoology), Ph.D

Contact Person: Prof H Nanda Kumar Sarma (ViceChancellor)


Phone: 0385-24355055

Address: Manipur University , In-do-Myanmar Road,Canchipur-795003, Imphal, Manipur, India

Website: www.manipuruniv.ac.in

Manipur University, Imphal




Contact Person: Ramesh Chandra Haomom (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Pukh-rambam G. Devi (Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Chemistry)


Phone: 0385-2455167, 0385-2455692

Address: Imphal College, Kwakei-thel Lomdong, Airport road, Imphal-795001, Dist. Imphal west, Manipur, India

Website: www.imphalcollege.nic.in


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Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Biochemistry & Biotechnology

Contact Person: Fr. Ioannis Warpak-ma (Principal)


Phone: 0364-2222558, 0364-2222558

Address: St. Anthony’s College, Bom-fyle Road, East Khasi Hills, Shillong, Meghalaya-793001, India

Website: www.anthonys.ac.in

St. Edmund’s College (Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Biochem-istry and Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. Sylvanus Lamare (Principal)


Phone: 0364-2224533

Address: St. Edmund’s College, Laitumkhrah Road, Shillong-793003, Meghalaya, India

Website: www.sec.edu.in

Lady Keane College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Biochemistry

Contact Person: Dr. Mrs. C. Massar (Principal)


Phone: 0364-2223293

Address: Lady Keane College, Shill-ong-793001, Meghalaya, India

Website: www.ladykeanecollege.edu.in

Manipur MeghalayaThe Institute of Biore-sources and Sustainable Development

Type: Autonomuos Institute (under DBT, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India)

Year of Setup: 2001

Courses: Objectives of research done: To set up biotech research facilities at Imphal which is at the centre of the Indo-Burmese Biodiversity Hotspot for sustainable development of biore-sources using-tools of modern biology; Biodiversity of bio-geographic junction of the Indian and oriental landmasses

Contact Person: Dr. N. C. Talukdar (Director)


Phone: 0385-2446122

Address: The Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, Takyel-pat, Imphal, Manipur-795001, India

Website: www.ibsd.gov.in

North Eastern Hill University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)







Contact Person: Prof. A. Chatterjee


Phone: 0364-2722403

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics North Eastern Hill University NEHU Campus, Shill-ong-793022, Meghalaya, India

Website: www.nehu.ac.in

St. Anthony’s College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)

Saint Mary’s College

Type: Private

Year of Setup: 1937

Affiliation: North Eastern Hill University


Courses: B.Sc. Botany, Zoology, Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics

Contact Person: Magdalene Badwar (Vice Principal)


Phone: 0364-2224716, 0364-2501053

Address: Saint Mary’s College, Laitumkhrah, Shillong-793003, Meghalaya, India

Website: www.smcs.ac.in


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Pachhunga University College (Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: Dr. Tawnenga(Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Ksh. Birla Singh (Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Zoology)


Phone: 0385-2455167, 0385-2455692

Address: Pachhunga University College, Veng, Aizawl-796001, Mizoram, India

Website: www.pucollege.in

Mizoram Odisha

Mizoram University, Aizawl

Type: Public (Central University )


Year of Setup: 2001

Courses: M.Sc., Ph.D. in Botany, Zoology, Biotechnology

Contact Person: Prof. Satpal Singh Bisht


Phone: 0389-2330109, 0389-2330114

Address: Mizoram University, Tanhril, Aizawl, Mizoram, P.O Box No. 190, India

Website: www.mzu.edu.in

Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology


Year of Setup: 1964

Courses: Bioresources Engineering

Contact Person: Prof BK Mishra (Director)


Phone: 0674-2567126, 0674-2379401

Address: CSIR- Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology ( Formerly Regional Research Laboratory), Coun-cil of Scientific & Industrial Research, Bhubaneswar-751 013, Odisha, India

Website: www.immt.res.in

Fakir Mohan University

Affiliation: Public

Year of Setup: 1999

Courses: M.Sc. Bio-Technology

Contact Person: Dr. A.N. Mishra(Prof., Deptt. of Biotechnology)


Phone: 06782-275875

Address: Fakir Mohan University, Vyasa Vihar, Balasore, Odisha, India

Website: www.fmuniversity.nic.in

Type: Public (Autonomous)

Courses: Infectious Disease Biology Gene Function and Regulation

Contact Person: Dr. B. Ravindran, (Director)


Phone: 0674-2300137, 0674-2301476 Ext. 204

Address: Institute of Life Sciences, Nalco Square, Bhubaneswar-751023,Odisha, India

Website: www.ils.res.in

Institute of Life Sciences Kanak Manjari Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Type: Private

Affiliation: Biju Patnaik University of Technology


Year of Setup: 1982

Courses: M.Pharm, B.Pharm, D.Pharm

Contact Person: Dr. Ravindrasinh G. Pardeshi (Principal)


Phone: 2480752, 2480756, 2480031

Address: Kanak Manjari Institute of Pharmaceutical sciences, Rourkela-769015, Odisha, India

Website: www.kmips.com


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Orissa Univ. of Agriculture & Technology (DBTsupported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)







Contact Person: Dr. G.R. Rout (Prof. & Head)


Phone: 0674-2397755

Address: Deptt. of Agri. Biotechnology, Orissa Univ. of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubneshwar-751003, Odisha, India

Website: www.ouat.ac.in

Khallikote College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: Dr. Niranjan Barik (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. B.K. Mohanty (Reader in Botany)


Phone: 06880-2204667, 06880-2215040

Address: Deptt. of Botany & Biotech-nology, Khallikote College (Auton-omous), Berhampur–760001, Distt. Ganjam, Odisha, India

Website: www khallikotecollege.org.in

OdishaKIIT University

Year of Setup: 1960

Approved: AICTE


Courses: B.Tech & M.Tech in Biotech-nology

Contact Person: Mr. Mahendra Prasad


Phone: 0674-272 5113

Address: KIIT Road, Chanda-ka Industrial Estate, Patia, Bhu-baneswar-751024, Odisha, India

Website: www.kiit.ac.in

Roland Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Type: Private

Affiliation: Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) and Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha

Approved: AICTE, PCT and Govt. of Orissa

Year of Setup: 1986

Courses: B.Pharmacy , M. Pharmacy Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutics,Pharm. Analysis & Quality Assurance, Pharmacology

Contact Person: Dr ME Bhanoji Rao (Principal)


Phone: 0680-2404199

Address: Roland Institute of Phar-maceutical Sciences, Khodasingi, Berhampur-760010, Odisha, India

Website: www.rips.ac.in

Sambalpur University


Year of Setup: 1967

Courses: M.Sc., M.Phil, Ph.D in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. B. Nayak (HOD)


Phone: 0663-2431879, 0663-2432060

Address: Sambalpur University, Jyoti Vihar, Sambalpur-768019, Odisha, India

Website: www.suniv.ac.in

Seemanta Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Type: Private

Affiliation: Biju Pattnaik University of Technology(BPUT), Rourkela

Approved: AICTE & PCT

Year of Setup: 1982

Courses: D.Pharm, B.Pharm, M.Pharm(Pharmaceutical Chemistry), M.Pharm (Pharmaceutics)

Contact Person: Prof. Dr. U. N. Nanda (Principal)


Phone: 06791-222238 , 06791-222878

Address: Seemanta Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jharpokh-aria-757086, Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India

Website: www.seemantapharma.org


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Pondicherry University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Dr. N. Sakthivel (Head, Deptt. of Biotechnology)


Phone: 0413-2654430

Address: School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry-605014, India

Website: www.pondiuni.edu.in






Contact Person: Dr. Jagneshwar Dandapat (Head, P.G. Deptt. of Biotechnology)


Phone: 0674 -2587389,

Address: Utkal University,Vani Vihar, Bhubneshwar -751004, Odisha, India

Website: www.utkaluniversity.ac.in

Utkal University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

OdishaSri Jayadev College of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Type: Private

Affiliation: Biju Patnaik University of Technology

Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: D.Pharm, B.Pharm, M.Pharm (Pharmaceutics), M.Pharm (Pharma Chemistry), M.Pharm (Pharmacology), M.Pharm (Pharma Analysis & Quality Assurance)

Contact Person: Prof.(Dr.) M.S. Ghosh (Principal)


Phone: 0674-2463615, 0674 2463370, 0674-2463369

Address: Sri Jayadev College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Naharkanta, via Balianta, Bhubaneswar-752101,Odisha, India

Website: www.sjcpsorissa.org

Pondicherry Punjab

Type: Public, (Institute of Indian Council of Medical Research)

Year of Setup: 1975

Courses: Carrying out Basic & Applied research with the primary objective of finding newer methods and developing strategies for the control of vector borne-diseases; M.Sc., Public Health Entomology; Ph.D programs in Zoology, Microbiol-ogy, Chemistry & Epidemiology


Phone: 0413-2272396, 0413-2272397

Address: Vector Control Research Centre, Medical Complex, Indira Nagar, Pondicherry- 605006, India

Website: www.vcrc.res.in

Vector Control Research Centre

Ambala College of Engineering and Applied Research

Type: Private

Affiliation: Kurukshetra University

Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 2002

Courses: Biotech Engineering

Contact Person: Dr. Ram Pundir (HOD)


Phone: 0171-2821833, 0171-2822001/ 003

Address: Ambala College Of En-gineering and Applied Research, Devsthali, 11 Km, Ambala Cantt - Jagadhari Road, P.O. Sambhalkha, Ambala-133101, Punjab, India

Website: www.ambalacollege.com

DAV College, Amritsar (Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Accreditation: ‘A+’ Grade by NAAC

Supported Departments:Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Bio-technology

Contact Person: Dr. K.N. Kaul (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Daizy Sharma (HOD of Botany)


Phone: 0183-2534971, 0183-2553377

Address: DAV College, KatraSher Singh, Amritsar–143006, Punjab, India

Website: www.davcollegeasr.org


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Goswami Ganesh Dutta Sanatan Dharma College (Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Biotech-nology, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics and Microbiology

Contact Person: Mrs. Meena Prabhakar (Principal & Coordinator)


Phone: 0172-2613656, 0172-2600090

Address: Goswami Ganesh DuttaSa-natan Dharma College, Sector, 32-C, Chandigarh-160030, Punjab, India

Website: www.ggdsd.ac.in

Govt. Mohindra College (Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr Sukhbir Singh


Phone: 0175-2321695

Address: Govt. Mohindra College, Patiala-147001, Punjab, India

Website: www.mohindracollege.in



Courses: M.V.Sc. Animal Biotechnology




Contact Person: Dr. Gurvinder Singh Brah


Phone: 0161-2414022

Address: Deptt. of Animal Biotechnol-ogy, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Science University, Ludhiana-141004, Punjab, India

Website: www.gadvasu.in

Guru Angad Dev Veteri-nary and Animal Science University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Doaba College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)




Contact Person: Dr. Naresh Kumar Dhiman (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Rajiv Khosla (Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Biotech-nology)


Phone: 0181-2291837, 0181-2490199

Address: Doaba College, Jalandhar, VidyalayaMarg, Opp Devi Talab-Mandir, Jalandhar-144004, Punjab, India

Website: www.doabacollege.net

DAV College, Jalandhar (Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Food Science & Technology and Biotech-nology

Contact Person: Dr BB Sharma (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Rajeev Kumar Sharma (Coordinator)


Phone: 0181-2255641/ 42/ 43

Address: DAV College, Mahatma Hans Raj Road, Dayanand Nagar, Jalandhar–144008, Punjab, India

Website: www.davjalandhar.com

PunjabDAV College, Chandigarh(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Biotechnolo-gy, Bioinformatics and Zoology

Contact Person: Dr. B.C Josan(Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Kakoli Biswas


Phone: 0172-2743980, 0172-2741708

Address: DAV College, Sector-10, Chandigarh-160011, Punjab. India

Website: www.davchd.com


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Lyallpur Khalsa College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)

M.C.M DAV College for Women (Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Biotech-nology, Physics, Chemistry, Zoology/ Botany and Computer Science

Contact Person: Dr. Jaspal Singh Randhawa (Principal)


Phone: 0181-2241465-68

Address: Lyallpur Khalsa College, G.T. Road, Jalandhar-144001, Punjab, India

Website: www.lkcjal.org


Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Food Science

Contact Person: Dr. Puneet Bedi (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Geeta Mehra(Assisstant Professor & Head, Deptt. of Microbial & Food Tech)


Phone: 0172-2603355, 0172-2613047

Address: M.C.M DAV College for Women, Sector-36-A, Chandigarh-160036, Punjab, India

Website: www.mcmdavcw-chd.edu

Kamla Nehru College for Women(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Botany, Zoology, Physics and Chemistry

Contact Person: Dr. Kiran Walia (Principal & Coordinator)


Phone: 01824-228229, 01824-228137

Address: Kamla Nehru College for Women, Phagwara Kapurtha-la-144401, Punjab, India

Website: www.kncw.org

Guru Nanak Dev University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Dr. Prabhjeet Singh (Professor & Head)


Phone: 0183-2258802-09 Ext.3177

Address: Department of Biotech-nology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar -143005, Punjab, India

Website: www.gndu.ac.in

Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH)

Type: Public ( Under Council of Scientific & Industrial Research )

Year of Setup: 1989

Courses: Exploration of Microbial Biodiversity, Protein Science and Engineering, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Immu-nology, Biochemical Engineering ( Fermentation based Process Devel-opment), Bioinformatics, Biosensors and Nanotechnology, Bio-Organic Chemistry

Contact Person: Dr. Girish Sahni, (Director)


Phone: 0172-2690785, 0172- 2690684

Address: Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39A, Chandi-garh-160036, Punjab, India

Website: www.imtech.res.in

PunjabKhalsa College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: Dr. Daljeet Singh (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. J.S. Gandhi (Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Chemistry)


Phone: 0183-2258097, 0183-5071711

Address: Khalsa College, G. T. Road, Amritsar- 143002, Punjab, India

Website: www.khalsacollegeamritsar.org


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S. Govt College of Science Education & Research (Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: Dr. Harmandip Kaur (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Surjit Singh (Associate Professor, Department of Botany)


Phone: 01624-223242

Address: S. Govt College of Science Education & Research, Jagraon, Ludhi-ana-142026, Punjab, India

Website: www.govtsciencecollegejagr-aon.com

National Institute of Phar-maceutical Education and Research (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: M.Tech Pharma. Biotechnology


Mode of Admission: Institute Exam


Contact Person: Dr. U.C. Banerjee (Prof. & Head)


Phone: 0172-2214682-87 Extn: 2142, 2061

Address: Department of Pharmaceu-tical Technology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Sector 67, S.A.S. Nagar, Mohali-160062 , Punjab, India

Website: www.niper.ac.in

PunjabPunjabi University


Year of Setup: 1962


Courses: M.Sc. Bio-Technology, M.Sc. Microbial & Food Technology

Contact Person: Prof. R.S. Singh (HOD)


Phone: 0175-3046262

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnology, Punjabi University, NH 64, Urban Estate Phase II, Patiala -147002, Punjab, India

Website: www.punjabiuniversity.ac.in

Punjab Agricultural University


Year of Setup: 1962

Courses: B.Sc. biotechnology, M.Sc. Microbiology, BioChemistry, M.Sc. Plant Breeding & Genetics, M.Sc. Biotechnology, Ph.D programs

Contact Person: Dr Rajinder Singh Sidhu (Dean, College of Basic Sciences & Humanaties)


Phone: 0161- 2401960-79

Address: Punjab Agricultural Univer-sity, Ludhiana-141004, Punjab, India

Website: www.pau.edu

Shaheed Udham Singh College of Engineering and Technology

Type: Private

Affiliation: Punjab Technical Universi-ty Jalandhar

Approved: AICTE, New Delhi and the Government of Punjab

Year of Setup: 1997

Courses: B.Tech in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Prof. Sukhjeet Kaur (HOD)

Phone: 01762-306123

Address: Shaheed Udham Singh Col-lege of Engineering and Technology, Shapur Kalan, Sunam, Punjab-148028, India

Website: www.suscolleges.com/engg

Thapar Institute of Engi-neering and Technology

Type: Private Autonomous Institution(under Thapar University)


Year of Setup: 1956

Courses: B.Tech. Biotechnology, M.Tech Biotechnology, PG Diploma in Plant Transgenic Technologies, M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc Microbiology

Contact Person: Dr. Dinesh Goyal

Email: [email protected], [email protected],[email protected], [email protected]

Phone: 0175-2393021

Address: Thapar University, P.O Box 32, Patiala-147004, Punjab, India

Website: www.thapar.edu


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Bhupal Noble’s Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Type: Private

Affiliation: Rajasthan University of Health Science


Year of Setup: 1984

Courses: B.Pharma, D.Pharma, M.Pharm(Pharmaceutics, Pharmacology, Quality Assurance)

Contact Person: Dr.Chetan Singh Chauhan (Principal)


Phone: 0294-2410406

Address: Bhupal Nobles’ Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Old Station Road, Near Sewashram Chouraha, Udaipur-313002, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.bninstitute.org

Banasthali Vidyapeeth (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Dr. Vinay Sharma (Prof. & Head, Deptt. of Biosciences & Biotechnology)


Phone: 01438-228302, 01438-228456,01438-228341 Extn. 280

Address: Banasthali Vidyapeeth,P.O. Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Banasthali-340 022, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.banasthali.org

RajasthanAlwar Pharmacy College

Type: Private

Affiliation: University of Rajasthan Jaipur; Rajasthan University of Health Sciences

Approved: AICTE & PCI, New Delhi

Year of Setup: 2004

Courses: B. Pharmacy, M. Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Chemistry), M. Phar-macy (Pharmaceutics), M. Pharmacy (Pharmacology), Ph.D. in Pharmacy

Contact Person: Dr. G. Jeyabalan (Principal)


Phone: 9929110006 to 9

Address: Alwar Pharmacy College, North Extn. M.I.A., Alwar-301030, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.ietpharmacy.com

Birla Institute ofScientific Research

Courses: Training and Research Programs in Industrial Biotechnology, Biodiversity & Bioprospecting

Contact Person: Prof. P. Ghosh(Executive Director)


Phone: 0141-2385283

Address: Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Statue Circle, Jaipur-302001, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.bisr.res.in

Type: Public

Accreditation: ‘A+’ Grade by NAAC

Year of Setup: 2009 (Centre for Converging Technologies)

Courses: Research in the four streams of Nanotechnology, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Information and Communication Technology, Cogni-tive & Neuroscience; Ph.D program

Contact Person: Ashok K. Nagawat(Director)


Phone: 0141-2700370

Address: Centre for Converging Tech-nologies,University of Rajasthan, J. L. N. Marg, Jaipur-302004, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.uniraj.ac.in

Centre for Converging Technologies, Rajasthan University Campus

Dr. B. Lal Institute of Biotechnology, Jaipur

Type: Private

Affiliation: University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

Approved: ISO 9001:2008 certified

Year of Setup: 2008

Courses: B. Sc. Biotechnology, M. Sc. Biotechnology, M. Sc. Microbiology

Contact Person: Dr. Sonika Saxena


Phone: 091-9829038177

Address: Dr. B. Lal Institute of Bio-technology (An Exclusive Biotechnol-ogy Institute), 6-E, Malviya Industrial Area, Jaipur 302017, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.blal.org


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RajasthanDungar College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)




Contact Person: Dr Meera Shrivastava(Coordinator & Head, Deptt. of Zoology)


Phone: 0151-2528036

Address: Dungar College, Bikaner Jai-pur Road, Bikaner-334001, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.dungarcollege.ac.in

IIS University

Type: Deemed to be University


Courses: B.Sc. and M.Sc. programs in Zoology, Environmental Science, Botany, Biotechnology


Phone: 0141-2400140-61, 2397906-07

Address: ICG Campus, Gurukul Marg, SFS, Mansarovar, Jaipur-302020, Rajasthan, India

Website: iisuniv.ac.in

Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur


Year of Setup: 1962

Courses: B.Sc. (Botany), B.Sc. (Biotech) B.Sc. (Zoology), B.E. (Biotechnology), M.Sc. in Botany and Zoology

Contact person: Dr. Jet Ram Bishnoi (HOD)


Phone: 0291-2720889

Address: Jai Narain Vyas University, Bhagat ki Kothi, Pali Road, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.jnvu.edu.in

Jaipur National University, Rajasthan

Type: Private University (Estd. by Govt. of Rajasthan)

Accreditation: NAAC

Year of Setup: 2007

Courses: UG programs: B.Tech Bio-technology, B.Sc.- M.Sc. Integrated Bio-technology, B.Sc. (Hons.) Biochemistry, B.Sc., M.Sc. Microbial Technology, B.Sc. (Hons.) Bioinformatics, B.Sc., M.Sc. Bioinformatics, B.Sc. (Hons.) Biotech-nology, B.Sc. Biotechnology (Integrated), B.Sc. (Hons.) Microbial Technology; PG programs Life and Basic Sciences: M.Sc. Bioinformatics , M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Microbiology, M.Sc. Biochemistry, M.Sc. Chemistry, M.Sc Botany

Contact Person: Prof HN Verma (Pro-Vice-Chancellor)


Phone: 0141-2753377, 0141-2754399

Address: Jaipur National University, Jai-pur-Agra Bypass, Near New RTO office, Jagatpura, Jaipur-302017, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.jnujaipur.ac.in

Jayoti Vidyapeeth Wom-en’s Unviersity, Jaipur


Approved: DEC, AICTE, BCI, PCI, UGC

Year of Setup: 2008

Courses: B.Sc. Food & Biotechnology, M.Sc. Biotechnology & Methodology, M.Sc.-Ph.D Biotechnology & Meth-odology

Contact Person: Gargi Sharma (Coordinator, Biotechnology)


Phone: 01428-515800

Address: Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s University, Vedaant Gyan Valley,Jharna, Mahla-Jobner Link Road, Jaipur -Ajmer Express Way, Jaipur-303122, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.jvwomensuniv.com

JECRC University, Jaipur


Approved: UGC

Courses: B.Sc Biotechnology, Micro-biology, MSc Microbiology, Biotech-nology

Contact Person: Dr. Hardik Pathak (Associate Professor and Head)


Phone: 0141-6565605, 0141-6565607

Address: TJECRC University, Plot No. IS-2036 to 2039, Ramchandrapura, Sitapura Industrial Area Extn, Near Mahatma Gandhi Hospital, Vidhani Village, Jaipur-303905, Rajasthan, India

Website: jecrcuniversity.edu.in


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Shree Manibhai Virani& Smt. Navalben Virani Science College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Chemistry, Microbiology, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Contact Person: Dr. A. U. Patel(Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Shivani Patel (Coordinator & HOD)


Phone: 0281-2562681

Address: Shree Manibhai Virani& Smt. Navalben Virani Science College, “YogidhamGurukul”, Kalawad Road, Rajkot-360005, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.vsc.edu.in

Lachoo Memorial College of Science & Technology(Under DBT Star College Scheme)




Contact Person: Prof. R.L. Mathur(Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Deepak Krishna Vyas (Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Botany)

Email: [email protected], www.lachoomemorial.org

Phone: 0291-2431238, 0291-2433919

Address: Lachoo Memorial College of Science & Technology, A. Sector, Shastri Nagar, Jodhpur-342003, Rajasthan,India

Website: www.lachoomemorial.org

Mohanlal SukhadiaUniversity


Approved: AICTE & UGC

Accreditation: NAAC

Year of Setup: 1962

Courses: B.Sc.in Biotechnology, B.Pharma, M.Sc. in Environmental Science, Biotechnology, Microbiology

Contact Person: Prof. Kanika Sharma (Course Director)


Phone: 0294-2413955, 0294-2410300

Address: Mohanlal Sukhadia Univer-sity, Udaipur-313001, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.mlsu.ac.

NIIT University

Affiliation: Private University

Year of Setup: 2009

Courses: B.Tech Biotechnology, M.Tech Biotechnology

Contact Person: Sunil Khanna {VP, Dean (Research & Admissions)}


Phone: 1800-103-5050(Admission Office)

Address: NIIT University, Neemrana, NH-8 Delhi-Jaipur Highway, District Alwar-301705, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.niituniversity.in

Raj Rishi College, Alwar

Type: Autonomous Government College

Affiliation: University of Rajasthan


Year of Setup: 1930

Courses: B.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Botany, Zoology

Contact Person: Prof. P. Ghosh(Executive Director)


Phone: 0144 -2700772

Address: Raj Rishi College, Alkapuri, Alwar, Rajasthan -301001, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.rajrishicollege.com

Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1987

Courses: Post graduate and Research programs in Agriculture and Plant Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. I.J. Gulati (Dean,College of Agriculture)


Phone: 0151-2250292

Address: Sri Ganganagar Rd, Bichhwal, Beechhwal Rural, Rajas-than-334006, India

Website: www.raubikaner.org

Rajasthan


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Type: Public

Affiliation: Vinayaka Missions University


Year of Setup: 1962

Courses: B.Tech Biotechnology, M.Tech Bio-Technology

Contact Person: Dr. M. Mary Jee Jee Cruz (Associate Professor & Head)


Phone: 044-8754541025

Address: Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology, Vinayaka Nagar, Old Mahabalipuram Road, Paiyanoor, Kancheepuram Dist, Chennai-603104, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.avit.ac.in

Type: Public {Under the Indian Coun-cil of Agricultural Research (ICAR)}

Year of Setup: 1996

Courses: Research program on crop improvement, crop production and post harvest management

Contact Person: Dr. R.C. Upadhyaya (Director)

Email: nrcorchids @rediffmail.com

Phone: 03592-257954, 03592-257289

Address: National research Centre for Orchids, P.O.Pakyong, East Sikkim-737106, Sikkim, India

Website: www.nrcorchids.nic.in

Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil NaduThe Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute

Type: Public (Institute of Indian Council of Agricultural Research)

Courses: Basic and applied research on sheep and rabbit production, health, utilization, training and trans-fer of technologies to the beneficiaries

Contact Person: Dr S M K Naqvi (Director)


Phone: 01437-220162, 01437-240490

Address: Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute, Avikanagar- (post),Malpura (Tehsil), Tonk (Dist) Via-Jaipur-304501, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.cswri.res.in

The Institute of Advanced Studies in Education

Type: Private (Deemed University)

Year of Setup: 1993

Courses: B.E./B. Tech. and Msc. In Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr Kamlesh Choure (Life Sciences Dept)


Phone: 01564-222204, 01564-222248

Address: IASE Deemed UniversityGandhi Vidya Mandir (GVM), Sardar-shahr- 331401, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.iaseuniversity.org.in

University of Rajasthan


Year of Setup: 1947

Courses: M.Sc. Zoology, M.Sc. Micro-biology, M. Sc. Bio-Technology, M. Sc. Botany, Ph.D.

Contact Person: K.P. Sharma ( Head & Professor)


Phone: 0141-2708824 0141-2708824

Address: University of Rajasthan, JLN Marg, Jaipur-302004, Rajasthan, India

Website: www.uniraj.ac.in

National Research Centre for Orchids

Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology

Adhiparasakthi College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: The Tamil Nadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai


Approved: AICTE

Courses: B. Pharmacy , M. Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Analysis, Pharmaceu-tics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry), Ph.D. in Pharmacy

Contact Person: Dr.T. Vetrichelvan (HOD)


Phone: 044- 27529093, 91-9443010858

Address: Adhiparasakthi College of Pharmacy, Melmaruvathur, Kanchee-puram District- 603319, Tamilnadu, India

Website: www.apcp.in


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Courses: M.Sc. Marine Biotechnology




Contact Person: Prof. K. Kathiresan (Professor & Director)

Email:[email protected],[email protected]

Phone: 04144-253089, 04144-243223

Address: Centre of Advanced Studies (CAS), In Marine Biology, Annamalai University, Parangipetta-608502, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.annamalaiuniversity.ac.in

Annamalai University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Anna University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Tamil NaduAdhiyamaan College of Engineering

Type: Private

Affiliation: Anna University, Chennai



Year of Setup: 2003

Courses: B. Tech Bio-Technology

Contact Person: Dr G Ranganath (Principal)


Phone: 04344-261033, 09487819135

Address: Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Dr.M.G.R.Nagar, Hosur, Krishnagiri District-635109, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.adhiyamaan.ac.in

Algappa University




Courses: M.Sc. , Ph.D in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. S. Karutha Pandian (Head)


Phone: 04565-225215, 04565-226250

Address: Alagappa University, Karai-kudi-630004, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.alagappauniversity.ac.in






Contact Person: Prof. P. Gautam (Director & Head)


Phone: 044-222350772/22358363/8362

Address: Centre for Biotechnology, Alagappa College of Technology Cam-pus, Anna University, Chennai-600025, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.annauniv.edu

Type: Public

Affiliation: Tamil Nadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University

Approval: Government of Tamil Nadu, AICTE & PCI

Year of Setup: 1988

Courses: B.Pharm, M.Pharm (Phar-maceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Pharmaceutics, Pharmacolo-gy) D.Pharm

Contact Person: Dr.M.Palanivelu (Principal)


Phone: 04563-289006

Address: A.K.College of Pharmacy, Anand Nagar, Krishnankoil-626126. Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.akcp.ac.in

Arulmigu Kalaslingam College of Pharmacy

Arunai Engineering College

Type: Private

Affiliation: Anna University


Year of Setup: 2002


Contact Person: Dr.V.Ramanathan (Principal)


Phone: 04175-255101/255102/255103

Address: Arunai Engineering Col-lege, Velu Nagar, Mathur, Tiruvan-namalai-606603, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.arunai.org


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Tamil NaduAvinashilingam Insti-tute for Home Science & Higher Education

Type: Deemed Uuniversity


Approval: UGC

Courses: B.Sc. Biochemistry & Biotechnology, M.Sc. Bioinformatics, Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. B.Shymala Vijaya-vathi (Prof . and Head of Zoology)


Phone: 0422-2440241 / 2435550

Address: Avinashilingam Institute For Home Science And Higher Education For Women, Mettupalayam Road, Bharathi Park Road, Coimbatore -641043, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.avinuty.ac.in

Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

Type: Private

Affiliation: Anna University, Coimbatore

Year of Setup: 2003(Dept of Biotech)

Courses: B.Tech Biotechnology, M.Tech Biotechnology, Ph.D. /M.S. (By Research) - Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. N. Rengarajan(Principal)


Phone: 04295-226000/221289

Address: Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Alathukombai - PostSathyamangalam-638401, Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.bitsathy.ac.in

Type: Private

Affiliation: University of Madras

Courses: B.Sc. Biochemistry, Microbi-ology, M.Sc. Biochemistry

Contact Person: Dr. R. Prema (Principal)


Phone: 044-26872891

Address: Bhaktavatsalam Memori-al College for Women, No. 14, 31st Street, Periyar Nagar Korattur, Chennai-600080, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.bmc.ac.in

Bhaktavatsalam Memo-rial College for Women

Bharathidasan University



Year of Setup: 1982

Courses: M.Sc. Life Sciences, Bio-technology, Industrial Biotechnology, Marine Biotechnology, Microbiology, Animal-Biotechnology, Botany, Bioin-formatics, Biomedical Science

Contact Person: Dr. S. Sivaramakrish-nan (Assistant Professor and Head, Deptt. of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering)


Phone: 0431-2407086

Address: Bharathidasan University, Palkalaiperur, Tiruchirappalli-620024, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.bdu.ac.in

Centre for Research in Medical Entomology

Approved: Public (Under ICMR)

Year of Setup: 1985

Courses: Research on various medi-co-entomological disciplines especially ecology, physiology, molecular biology, taxonomy, serology and control of vector-borne diseases such as Japanese encephalitis, lymphatic filariasis, den-gue/chikungunya and malaria

Contact Person: Dr. B .K. Tyagi (Scientist G & Director-in-Charge)


Phone: 0452 -2520565

Address: Centre for Research in Medical Entomology, 4-Sarojini Street, Chinna Chokkikulam, Madu-rai-625002, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.icmr.nic.in/pinstitute/crme.

Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute

Type: Private (University)


Approved: AICTE

Courses: B.Tech. Industrial Biotech-nology, B.Tech. Biotechnology, B.Tech. Bioinformatics; M.Tech. Industrial Biotechnology, M.Tech. Biotechnology, M.Tech. Medical Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr.K. Meer Mustafa Hussain (VC)


Phone: 044-2378 2176 / 2186 / 2085

Address: Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute, Periyar E.V.R. High Road, (NH 4 Highway) Maduravoyal, Chennai-600095, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.drmgrdu.ac.in


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Holy Cross College (Autonomous) (Under DBT Star College Scheme)




Contact Person: Dr. (Sr.) G. Sarguna (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. P. Daisy (Deptt. of Zoology)

Email: [email protected].,daisylesslie@gmail. com

Phone: 0431-2701609, 0431-270063

Address: Holy Cross College (Autono-mous), Tiruchirappalli-620002, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.hcctrichy.ac.in

Ethiraj College for Women (Autonomous) (Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Physics, Plant Biology & Biotechnology, Zoology and Chemistry

Contact Person: Dr. Tmt. Jothi Ku-maravel (Principal & Secretary)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Shyamla Kanakarajan (Assistant Professor and Head of Pant Biology and Plant Biotechnology)


Phone: 044-28279189

Address: Ethiraj College for Wom-en(Autonomous), No.70, EthirajSalai, Egmore, Chennai-600008, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.ethirajcollege.in

Dwarka Doss Goverdhan Doss Vaishnav College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Plant Biolo-gy & Plant Biotechnology, Physics and Chemistry

Contact Person: Dr. S. Narasimhan(Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. D. Uthra (Head, Deptt. of Physics)


Phone: 044-24754349, 24736655

Address: Dwarka Doss Goverdhan Doss Vaishnav College, Gokul Bagh, 833, Periyar E.V.R. Salai, Arumbak-kam, Chennai-600106, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.dgvaishnavcollege.com

Erode College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: The TN.Dr. M.G.R. Medi-cal University, Chennai


Year of Setup: 1992

Courses: B.Pharmacy, M.Pharmacy (Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Anal-ysis, Pharmacy Practice, Pharmacolo-gy), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)

Contact Person: Dr.V.Ganesan (Principal)


Phone: 0424-2339929, 2339538

Address: The Erode College of Phar-macy & Research, Perundurai main Road, Veppampalayam, Vallipu-rathampalayam (Po), Erode- 638112, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.ecperode.in

Fathima College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R Medical University


Year of Setup: 1993

Courses: B.Pharma

Contact Person: Mr C Asockson (Principal)


Phone: 04633-240408, 04633-242648

Address: Fathima College of Pharma-cy, 103, Main Road, Krishnapuram, Kadayanallur-627 759, Tiruneliveli District, Tamilnadu, India

Website: www.fcp.in

Type: Private

Affiliation: Bharathiar University

Year of Setup: 2003 (Biotech Deptt.)

Courses: B.Sc. Microbiology, Biotech-nology, M.Sc. Microbiology, Biotech-nology; M.Phil & Ph.D- Microbiology, Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. N.Murugulatha (Principal)


Phone: 0422-2561633 / 44 / 66

Address: Hindusthan College of Arts and Science, Hindusthan Gardens, (Behind Nava India)Avanashi Road, Coimbatore-641028, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.hindusthan.net

Hindusthan College of Arts and Science

Tamil Nadu


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Tamil NaduIIT Madras

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 2004 (Deptt. of Bio-technology)

Courses: M.Tech Biological engineer-ing (Dual Degree), M.S Biological Sci-ence (Dual Degree), M.Tech Clinical Engineering, M.S Biotechnology, Ph.D Biotechnology, Biomedical Devices and Technology

Contact Person: Prof. Doble Mukesh (HOD)

Email: mukeshd@ iitm.ac.in, [email protected]

Phone: 044-22574101

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnology,Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai-600036, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.biotech.iitm.ac.in

Jaya Group of Institutions

Type: Private

Year of Setup: 1977

Courses: B.Sc .Microbiology, Biotech-nology,Biochemistry M.Sc. Microbiol-ogy, Biotechnology,Biochemistry,B.Pharm , M.Pharm

Contact Person: K Navaraj (Vice Chairman)


Phone: 044-28155531

Address: Jaya Educational Trust,No. 108, III Floor, Rajalakshmi Mahal, Pondy Bazaar, T.Nagar, Chen-nai-600017, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.jayagc.org

Type: Private

Affiliation: Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University


Year of Setup: 2003

Courses: B.Pharm. Pharmacy, M.Pharm. Pharmaceutics

Contact Person: Dr.M.Senthil Kumar (Principal)


Phone: 04288-260032, 04288-260588

Address: JKK Muniraja Medical Research Foundation, College of Phar-macy, No.70, B. Ethirmedu, Komara-palayam, Namakkal Dist.-638183, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.jkkm.net

JKK Muniraja Medical Research Foundation, College of Pharmacy

Bharathidasan University

Type: Private

Affiliation: The TamilNadu Dr MGR Medical University

Approved: Govt. of Tamilnadu, AICTE and PCI

Courses: Diploma in Pharmacy,B.Pharm, M.Pharm, Ph.D in Pharmac-uetical Sciences

Contact Person: Prof. M. Nagarajan (Chairman & HOD)


Phone: 0452 2424652, 0452 2423454

Address: K.M.College of Pharmacy, Melur Road, Uthangudi, Madu-rai-625107, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.kmcp.ac.in

K.S.Rangasamy College of Arts & Science

Type: Autonomous

Affiliation: Periyar University, Salem


Year of Setup: 1995

Courses: B.Sc. Microbiology, Bio-chemistry, Biotechnology, M.Sc. Applied Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, MPhil Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotech-nology, PhD Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr.N.Kannan (Principal)


Phone: 04288-274741

Address: K.S.Rangasamy College of Arts & Science (Autonomous), KSR Kalvi Nagar, Tiruchengode - 637215, Namakkal Dist, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.ksrcas.edu

Kamaraj College of Engi-neering and Technology

Type: Autonomous

Affiliation: Anna university ,Chennai

Approved: AICTE


Contact Person: Dr.M.Vasanthi (Biotechnology faculty)


Phone: 04549-278791

Address: S.P.G.Chidambara Nadar-C.Nagammal Campus, S.P.G.C.Nagar, Post Box No. 12, Virudhunagar - 626001, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.kcetvnr.org


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Kongunadu Arts & Science College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Biotechnolo-gy, Botany, Biochemistry and Zoology

Contact Person: Dr. T. Muraleeswari (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. R. Sub-ashkumar (Assistant Professor & Head, Deptt. of Biotechnology)


Phone: 0422-2642095

Address:Kongunadu Arts & Science college, G.N. Mills (Post) Coim-batore-641029, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.kongunaducolle-ge.ac.in

Tamil NaduKarpagam Arts and Science College

Type: Deemed University (Karpagam University)

Approved: Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India, UGC

Courses: B.Sc. Biochemistry, B.Sc. Bio-technology, B.Sc. Microbiology, M.Sc. Biochemistry, M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Microbiology, M.Sc. Bio-Infor-matics, M.Sc. Industrial Biotechnology, M.Phil.( Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Microbiology), Ph.D.( Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Microbiology)

Contact Person: Dr.R.Gopala (Principal)


Phone: 0422-2611146, 0422-2611082

Address: Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, Coim-batore-641021,Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.karpagamuniversity.edu.in

Kovai Medical Center Research & Educational Trust, College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai

Approved: The Government of Tamil Nadu, PCI and AICTE, New Delhi

Year of Setup: 1995

Courses: B. Pharmacy, M. Pharmacy, Pharm.D, Pharm.D. (Post Baccalaure-ate), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)

Contact Person: Dr.A.Rajasekaran(Professor)


Phone: 0422-2369301/ 02

Address: KMCH College of Pharmacy, Kovai Estate, Kalapatti Road, Coim-batore-641 048, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.kmchcop.ac.in

KS Rangasamy College of Technology

Type: Autonomous



Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 1994

Courses: BE & M.Tech in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr.A.Kumaravel (HOD)


Phone: 04288-274741 to 274744

Address: K.S.Rangasamy Col-lege of Technology, KSR Kalvi Nagar,Tiruchengode- 637215, TamilNadu, India

Website: www.ksrct.ac.in

Type: Autonomous


Accreditation: NAAC

Year of Setup: 2002 ((Biotech Deptt.)


Contact Person: Dr.A.Manickam (HOD, Biotechnology Dept )


Phone: 0422 -2661341

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnology, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Chinnavedampatti (post), Coim-batore-641049, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.kct.ac.in

Kumaraguru College of Technology

Lady Doak College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Biotech-nology

Contact Person: Dr. A. Mercy (Principal& Secretary)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Mary Esther Rani (Associate Professor)


Phone: 0452-2530527, 0452-2524575

Address: Lady Doak College, Tallaku-lam, Madurai-625002, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.ladydoakcollege.edu.in


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Contact Person: Prof. T. Anitha Siron-mani (Head & Chairperson)


Phone: 0452-2458273

Address: School for Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University,Madurai-625021, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.mkuniversity.org

Madurai Kamaraj University (DBT supported Postgradu-ate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Madras Christian College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: Dr. Arul Samraj(Coordinator)


Phone: 044-22390675, 044-22396772

Address: Madras Christian College (Autonomous), Tambaram East, Chennai-600059, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.mcc.edu.in

Tamil NaduLoyola College (Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Botany & Biotechnology, Zoology & Biotechnol-ogy, Physics and Chemistry

Contact Person: Rev. Dr. B. Jeyaraj, S.J.(Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. P. Agastian


Phone:044-28178304 Extn-300

Address: Loyola College, Nungambak-kam, Chennai-600034, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.loyolacollege.edu

Madha Arts and Science College

Type: Private

Affiliation: University Of Madras


Approved: Government of TamilNadu, AICTE, New Delhi

Year of Setup: 2006

Courses: B.Sc Biotechnology, B.Sc Microbiology

Contact Person: Dr. D.A. Subramanian (HOD, Dept of Biotech)

Phone: 044-2478 0732 / 2478 0734

Address: Madha Group Of Academic Institutions, Madha Nagar, Soman-galam Road, Kundrathur, Chen-nai-600069, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.madhaartsandscience.com

Manonmaniam Sund-aranar University, Tirunelveli

Type: Public(State University)


Year of Setup: 1995

Courses: M. Sc. Marine Biotechnolo-gy, M.Sc Microbiology, Environmen-tal Bio-Technology, Nano Science, Biotechnology, M. Phil. Marine Biotechnology, Biotechnology, M.Phil Microbial Technology, M.Phil Coastal Aquaculture, Ph.D.

Contact Person: Dr.S.Sudhakar (Associate Professor & Head)


Phone: 0462-2338632

Address: Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Abishekapatti,Tirunelve-li-627 012, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.msuniv.ac.in

Merit International Institute of Technology

Type: Private


Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 1989

Courses: B.Tech Biotechnology and Genetic engineering, Bioinformatics and Environmental Engineering


Phone: 0423-2443601-6, 0423-2442486

Address: Merit International Institute of Technology, 22, Havelock Road, Ooty- 643001, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.meritworldwide.com


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PSG College of Arts & Sci-ence (Under DBT Star College Scheme)




Contact Person:Dr. R. Rajendran(Principal & Coordinator)

Programme Coordinator: Dr S Rajes-wari ( Head &Assosciate Professor,Deptt. of Botany)


Phone: 0422-4397901 to 905

Address: PSG College of Arts & Science, Civil Aerodrome Post, Coimbatore-641014, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.psgcas.ac.in

P.S.G.R. Krishnammal College For Women(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics

Contact Person: Dr. Mrs. N. Yesodha Devi (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. N. Ezhili (Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Zoology)


Phone: 0422- 4295959

Address: P.S.G.R. Krishnammal College For Women, Avinashi Road, Peelamedu, Coimbatore-641004, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.psgrkc.com

Nirmala College for Women (Autonomous) (Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Zoology, Botany and Chemistry

Contact Person: Rev. Sr. S. Savariammal (Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. S. Pad-mavathy (Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Botany)

Email:[email protected], [email protected]

Phone: 0422-2223469

Address: Nirmala College for Women (Autonomous) Red fields, Coim-batore-641018, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.nirmalacollege.info

Tamil NaduP.S.R. Engineering College

Type: Private (Autonomous )

Affiliation: Anna University of Technology


Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 1998

Courses: B.Tech Biotechnology (BT)

Contact Person: Dr.K.Subramanian, (HOD)


Phone: 04562-239600/239091/ 239092

Address: P.S.R. Engineering College, Sevalpatti, Sivakasi-626140, Virudhun-agar (Dist), Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.psr.edu.in

Periyar College of Phar-maceutical Sciences for Girls

Type: Private

Affiliation: Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai


Approved: Directorate of Medical Education, Chennai, AICTE & PCT, New Delhi

Courses: B.Pharm. Pharmacy, M.Pharm. Pharmaceutics, M.Pharm. Pharmacy Practice


Phone: 0431-2459911

Address: Periyar College of Pharma-ceutical Sciences for Girls, Periyar Centenary Educational Complex, K. Sathanoor Main Road, Tiruchirap-palli- 620021, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.pcpsg.in

Type: Public


Year of Setup: 1997

Courses: M.Sc. Biochemistry, M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Microbiology

Contact Person: Dr. P. Perumal (Professor & Head of Biotechnology)


Phone: 0427-2345766, 0427- 2345520

Address: Periyar University, Peri-yar Palkalai Nagar, Salem - 636 011, Tamilnadu, India

Website: www.periyaruniversity.ac.in

Periyar University


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Tamil NaduPSG College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai

Approved: AICTE, New Delhi and PCI; ISO 9001 : 2008 Certified Institution.Recognized as Industrial Scientific Research Org. by DSIR, Ministry of Science & Tech., New Delhi

Year of Setup: 2001

Courses: B.Pharm, M.Pharm (Pharma-ceutics, Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical analysis, Pharmacy practice, Pharm.D, Pharm.D PB (Post Baccalaureate)

Contact Person: Dr. M. Ramanathan (Principal)


Phone: 0422-2570170 Extn 5840

Address: PSG College of Pharmacy, Peelamedu, Coimbatore-641004, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.psgpharma.ac.in

RVS College of Pharma-ceutical Sciences

Type: Private

Affiliation: Tamil Nadu Dr.M.G.R.Medical University, Chennai


Approved: Government of TamilNadu, AICTE, New Delhi

Year of Setup: 1993

Courses: B.Pharma, M. Pharma (Phar-maceutics,Pharmacology,Pharmaceu-ticalAnalysis), Pharm.D, Ph. D


Phone: 0422-2687421

Address: RVS College of Pharmeceuti-cal Science, 242–B, Trichy Road, Sulur, Coimbatore – 641 402, Tamilnadu, India

Website: www.rvshs.ac.in

S. A. Raja Pharmacy College

Type: Private

Affiliation: Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai


Year of Setup: 2003

Courses: B. Pharm, D. Pharm

Contact Person: Dr.N Balakrishnanan


Phone: 04637-231193, 04637-230257

Address: S. A. Raja Pharmacy College, Raja Nagar, Vadakangulam-627116, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.sarajapharmacycollege.com

Sankaralingam Bhuvaneswari College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: TamilNadu Dr M.G.R. Medical University

Approved: AICTE &PCI

Year of Setup: 1988

Courses: B.Pharm, D.Pharm, M.Pharm – Pharamaceutics, M.Pharm - Pharmaceutical Analysis, M.Pharm - Pharmacology

Contact Person: Dr. P. Solairaj(Principal)


Phone: 04562-231918 / 231619

Address: Sankaralingam Bhu-vaneswari College of Pharmacy, 3 / 77 - C, Anaikuttam Road, Anaikuttam, Sivakasi - 626 130, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.sbcollegeofpharmacy.com

SASTRA University



Year of Setup: 1984

Courses: B. Tech. Bioengineering, B. Tech. Bioinformatics, B. Tech. Biotech-nology, B. Tech. Chemical Engineer-ing, M. Tech. Industrial Biotechnology, M. Tech. Medical Nanotechnology, M. Tech. Bioinformatics, M. Tech. Chem-ical Engineering, M. Tech. Nuclear Engineering, M. Tech. Pharmaceutical Technology

Contact Person: Prof.K.Sridha-ran,Ph.D ( Dean, School of Chemical & Biotechnology)


Phone: 04362-304187

Address: SASTRA University, Thanja-vur -613401, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.sastra.edu

Seetha Lakshmi Ramaswami College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)




Contact Person: Dr. G. Kalyani(Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. (Mrs.) M. Jayanthi (Deptt. of Zoology)


Phone: 0431-2704855

Address: Seetha Lakshmi Ramaswami College(Autonomous), P.B. No.-349, Tiruchirapalli-620002, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.srcollege.edu.in


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Tamil NaduSree Sastha Institute of Engineering And Technology

Type: Private

Affiliation: Anna university


Approved: AICTE


Contact Person: Dr.Varatharajan(Principal)


Phone: 044-26810114 /115 /117

Address: Sree Sastha Nagar, Chennai - Bangalore Highway,Chembarambak-kam, Chennai -600123, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.sasthaenggcollege.com

Sri Kaliswari College

Type: Private

Affiliation: Madurai Kamaraj University


Courses: B.Sc(Bio-Technology), M.Sc(Bio-Technology), M.Phil (Bio-technology)

Contact Person: Dr.R.Narayana Prakash (Director)


Phone: 04562-232648, 0 4562- 232264

Address: Sri Kaliswai College, A.Meenakshipuram, Anaikuttam Post, Sivakasi-626130, Tamilnadu, India

Website: www.kaliswaricollege.org

Sri Nandhanam College of Engineering & Technology

Type: Private

Affiliation: Anna University, Chennai

Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 2001

Courses: B.Tech Biotechnology (BT)

Contact Person: Mohan Krishnaa (Chairman)


Phone: 04179-230500-509

Address: Sri Nandhanam College of Engineering & Technology, ( Sri Nandhanam Educational and Social Welfare Trust) Tirupattur, Vellore District-635601, TamilNadu, India

Website: www.nandhanam.in

Sri Ramachandra College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Constituent college of Sri Ramachandra University (Deemed University)



Year of Setup: 1983

Courses: B. Pharmacy, Pharm.D, M. Pharmacy(Pharmacy Practice, Pharmaceutics, Quality Assurance and Pharmacognosy)

Contact Person: Dr. D. Chamund-eeswari (Principal)


Phone: 044-45928500, Ext. No. 228

Address: Sri Ramachandra Universi-ty,No.1 Ramachandra Nagar, Porur, Chennai-600116

Website: www.sriramachandra.edu.in



Year of Setup: 1997

Courses: Biotechnology degree in UG, PG, and Ph. D., B.Pharma, M. Pharma

Contact Person: Srinivasan Thyagarajan


Phone: 044-27452270, Ext. No. 1102

Address: SRM Nagar,National High-way 45, Kattankulathur, Kanchipuram, Hospital Rd, Potheri-603203, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.srmuniv.ac.in

SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRM University)

St Josephs College

Type: Autonomous

Affiliation: Bharathidasan University


Year of Setup: 1844

Courses: M.Sc., M.Phil. and Ph.D in Biotechnology, B.Sc and M.Sc in Botony

Contact Person: Rev Dr Andrew Fran-cis SJ (Principal)


Phone: 0431-2700320/4226436

Address: St.Joseph’s College (Au-tonomous), Tiruchirappalli-620002, Tamilnadu, India

Website: www.sjctni.edu


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TN Agricultural University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Dr. P. Sivasubrama-nian


Phone: 0422-6611262

Address: Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-641003, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.tnau.ac.in

Stella Maris College (Under DBT Star College Scheme)




Contact Person: Dr. Sr. Jasintha Qua-dras (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Juliana Joe


Phone: 0044-28111951, 044-28111987

Address: Stella Maris College (Auton-omous), 17, Cathedral Road, Chennai-600086, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.stellamariscollege.org

Tamil NaduSt Peter’s College of Engi-neering and Technology

Type: Private


Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 1992

Courses: B.Tech (Biotechnonlogy)

Contact Person: Dr.S.Selvan (Princi-pal)


Phone: 044-26558089, 044-26558080/84

Address: St Peter’s College of Engineering and Technology, College Road, Avadi, Chennai-600054, Tamil-Nadu, India

Website: www.spcet.ac.in

St Xaviers College


Affiliation: Manonmaniam Sundara-nar University


Year of Setup: 1923

Courses: B.Sc. Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology, Advanced Zoology and Biotechnology,M.Sc. Botany, Zoology, M.Phil( Zoology), Ph.D. Programs Botany, Zoology

Contact Person: ev. Dr. V. Gilburt Camillus, S.J. (Head of Institution)


Phone: 0462-2560744

Address: St Xaviers College, Palayam-kottai, Tirunelveli-627007, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.stxavierstn.edu.in

St. Michael College of En-gineering & Technology

Type: Private


Approved: AICTE


Courses: B.Tech. Biotechnology, M.Tech. Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr. V. G. Gopinath(Principal)


Phone: 04575-232009, 04575-232010

Address: St. Michael College of En-gineering & Technology, St. Santhiag-appar Nagar, Kalayar koil-630551, Sivagangai district, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.smcet.edu.in

Sugarcane Breeding Institute

Type: Public


Year of Setup: 1912

Courses: Ph.D Programs and a num-ber of training programs

Contact Person: Dr. N. Vijayan Nair (Director)


Phone: 0422-2472621

Address: Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore - 641007, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.sugarcane.res.in


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Tamil NaduTamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University


Courses: BVSc Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, B.Tech Food Pro-cessing Technology, B.Tech Poultry Production Technology, MVSc , MPhil Biotechnology, PhD Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Contact Person: Dr.T.J.Harikrishnan (Registrar)


Phone: 044-25551586/ 87, 25554555/ 56

Address: Tamilnadu Veterinary Ani-mal Sciences University, Madhavaram Milk Colony, Chennai -600051, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.tanuvas.tn.nic.in

The BharathiarUniversity



Year of Setup: 1982

Courses: M.Sc(Zoology, Animal Biotechnology, Human Genetics and Molecular Biology), M.Sc. Bioinfor-matics, P.G.Diploma in Cheminfor-matics, M.Sc. Environmental Sciences, M.Sc. Botany, M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Industrial Biotechnology

Contact Person: Col. Prof. Dr. G.James Pitchai (Vice Chancellor)


Phone: 0422-2428100, 0422-2422223

Address: Bharathiar University, Coimbatore-641046, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.b-u.ac.in

The National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis

Type: Public

Affiliation: Permanent Institute under the Indian Council of Medical Re-search (ICMR)

Year of Setup: 1956

Courses: Recognized for post-grad-uate training leading to the Ph.D. degrees in Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Immunology and Statistics

Contact Person: Dr. Soumya Swami-nathan (Director)


Phone: 044-28369500

Address: National Institute for Re-search in Tuberculosis, No.1, Mayor Sathiyamoorthy Road, Chetpet, Chen-nai-600 031, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.nirt.res.in

The National Institute of Epidemiology

Type: Public (Under ICMR)

Affiliation: Recognized by University of Madras for research leading to Ph. D degree

Year of Setup: 1999

Courses: Training programs in bio-statistics, controlled clinical trials and basic epidemiology for medical doctors, PG medical students and para-medical workers; Ph. D degree in the areas of epidemiology and bio-sta-tistics; Post Graduate Diploma in HIV Epidemiology (PGDHE)

Contact Person: Dr. Sanjay Mehendale (Director)


Phone: 044-26820517

Address: National Institute of Epidemi-ology (ICMR),Second Main Road, Tamil Nadu Housing Board, Ayapak-kam, Near Ambattur, Chennai-600077, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.nie.gov.in

Udaya School of Engineering

Type: Private


Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 2002

Courses: B.E Biomedical engineer-ing , B.Tech biotechnology ,M.Tech biotechnology, Ph.D –Biotechnology, M.Tech Nano Science & Technology, M.Tech Nano Science

Contact Person: Dr. S. Prakash(Principal)


Phone: 04651-239900

Address: Udaya School of Engineer-ing, Udaya Nagar, Vellamodi Kanya-kumari District-629204, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.sunedu.ac.in

Thiagarajar College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)


Supported Departments: Botany & Biotechnology, Zoology & Microbiolo-gy, Physics and Chemistry

Contact Person: Sh. Thiru.R. Raja Govindasamy (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. M. Eyini


Phone: 00452-2311875, 0452-2311952

Address: Thiagarajar College, 139-140 KamarajarSalai, Madurai-625009, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.tce.edu


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Tamil Nadu TripuraUltra College of Pharmacy

Type: Private

Affiliation: Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University


Courses: B.Pharm. Pharmacy, M.Pharm. Pharmaceutical Analysis, M.Pharm. Pharmaceutical Bio Technology, M.Pharm. Pharmaceutical Chemistry, M.Pharm. Pharmaceutics, M.Pharm. Pharmacology, D.Pharm. Pharmacy

Contact Person: Dr.S.Selvan (Principal)


Phone: 0452-2534701, 0452-2534593

Address: Ultra College of Pharmacy,-No.4/235, College Road, Thasildar Nagar, Madurai- 625020, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.ultracollegepharmacy.ac.in

St Xaviers College


Affiliation: Manonmaniam Sundara-nar University


Year of Setup: 1923

Courses: B.Sc. Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology, Advanced Zoology and Biotechnology,M.Sc. Botany, Zoology, M.Phil( Zoology), Ph.D. Programs Botany, Zoology

Contact Person: Dr.S.Niranjali Devaraj (Chair Person)


Phone: 044-2539 9422

Address: University of Madras, Chepauk, Chennai - 600005, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.unom.ac.in

Vels University


Year of Setup: 1992

Courses: B.Sc Biotechnology, Micro-Biology, Biochemistry, Bio-Computing, M.Sc Biotechnolo-gy, Biotechnology & Management, Advanced Bio-Chemistry, Biochem-istry, Bioinformatics, Immunology & Microbiology, Medical Biotechnology & Clinical Research

Contact Person: Dr. K. Sekhar (Vice Chancellor)


Phone: 044-22662500/2501/2502

Address: Velan Nagar, Krishnapuram,, P V Vaithiyalingam Road, Madras 600043, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.velsuniv.ac.in

VIT University

Type: Private

Accreditation: ‘A’ Grade from NAAC

Year of Setup: 2001 (University status)

Courses: B.Tech. (Biomedical Engi-neering), B. Tech. (Biotechnology), M.Tech. (Biotechnology), M.Tech. (Biomedical Engineering), M.Sc. (Applied Microbiology), M.Sc. (Bio-medical Genetics), M.Sc. (Biotechnol-ogy), M.Sc. (Biotechnology) (5-Year Integrated program)

Contact Person: Dr. C. Ramalingam (Dean, School of Bio-Science and Technology)


Phone: 0416-2202846, 0416-2243091

Address: VIT University, Vellore Campus, Vellore -632014, Tamil Nadu, India

Website: www.vit.ac.in

Ramkrishna Mahavidyalaya

Type: Government College

Affiliation: Tripura University

Year of Setup: 1950

Courses: B.Sc. Botany, Zoology, Chemistry

Contact Person: Dr. Ramakant (Asst. Prof. and Head, Deptt. of Botany)


Phone: 03824-222210

Address: Ramkrishna Mahavidyalaya Kailashahar, Unakoti, Tripura-299277, India

Website: www.rkmahavidyalaya.org

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Contact Person: Prof. A. M. Kayastha(Professor & Coordinator)


Phone: 0542-2368331, 0542-2307314

Address: School of Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University, Varana-si-221005, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.bhu.ac.in

Banaras Hindu University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Banaras Hindu Univer-sity, Varanasi (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Courses: Masters in Molecular and Human Genetics




Contact Person: Dr. Gopeshwar Narayan (Head & Course Coordinator


Phone: 0542-6702497

Address: Molecular & Human Genet-ics, Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.bhu.ac.in

Uttar Pradesh

Aligarh Muslim University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Dr. Asad Ulah Khan(Coordinator)


Phone: 0571-2720449, 0571-2401658

Address: Inter-disciplinary Bio-technology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.amu.ac.in

Amity Institute of Biotechnology

Type: Private (Under Amity University)


Approved: UGC

Year of Setup: 2005

Courses: B.Sc.(H) Biotechnology, B.Sc.+ M.Sc Biotechnology, B.Sc.(H) Medical Bio-technology, B.Tech. Biotechnology, B.Tech. Bioinformatics, B.Tech. + M.Tech. Biotech-nology;B.Tech. Biotechnology Evening, M.Tech. Biotechnology, M.Tech. Biochemi-cal Engineering, M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Bioinformatics, MBA Biotechnology, Ph.D.

Contact Person: Prof. K.C. Upadhyaya (Prof & Advisor)


Phone: 09871187171

Address: Amity Institute of Biotechnology, J-3 Block, Amity University Campus, Sec-tor-125, Noida-201303, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.amity.edu/aib

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University



Courses: M. Sc. in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Prof. C.P.M.Tripathi (HOD of Biotechnology)


Phone: 0551-2201577

Address: Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gor-akhpur University,Civil Lines, Gorakh-pur-273009, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.ddugu.edu.in

Type: Public


Year of Setup: 1965

Courses: M.Phil. , M.Sc. in Botany, Microbiology, Zoology, Genetics & Plant Breeding,biotechnology, Ph.D in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr.S.S.Gaurav (Coordinator)


Phone: 0121-2763539

Address: CCS University, Meerut- 200005, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.ccsuniversity.ac.in

Ch. Charan Singh University


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Courses: M.Tech. Biochemical Engi-neering & Biotechnology




Contact Person: Prof. R. Sankarara-makrishnan (Head)


Phone: 0512-2594014

Address: Deptt. of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.iitk.ac.in

IIT Kanpur(DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research

Type: Public

Affiliation: The Indian Council of Ag-ricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi alongwith other central agricultural research institutes

Year of Setup: 1952

Courses: Conducting researches on fundamental and applied aspects of sugarcane culture as well as to co-or-dinate the research works done on this crop in different states of the country.

Contact Person: Dr Sushil Solomon (Director)


Phone: 0522-2480726

Address: Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Raibareli Road, P.O. Dilku-sha, Lucknow-226002, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.iisr.nic.in

Uttar PradeshDr BR Ambedkar University


Year of Setup: 1927

Courses: M.Sc. & Ph.D in Biotechnol-ogy, Environmental science, Botany, Zoology

Contact Person: Prof. Rajendra Shar-ma (HOD, Dept of Botany, School of Life Science)


Phone: 0562-2520405

Address: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Univer-sity, Paliwal Park, Agra-282004, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.dbrau.ac.in

Dr RML Avadh University


Year of Setup: 1975

Courses: M.Sc. Biochemistry, M.Sc. Microbiology, Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr.Rajeev Gaur (Head of Microbiology Deptt.)

Phone: 05278-247865

Address: Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Hawai Patti, Alla-habad Road,Faizabad-224001,Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.rmlau.ac.in

Dr. K.N. Modi Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research

Type: Private

Affiliation: UPTU, Lucknow

Approved: AICTE, Ministry of HRD Government of India

Year of Setup: 1990

Courses: B.Pharma, M.PharmaM.Pharm pharmaceutics, M.Pharm Pharmaceutical Chemistry, M.Pharm Pharmacology, B.Sc.Biotech

Contact person: Dr. Ram Kumar Roy (Director)


Phone: 08791082239, 08859500790/1

Address: Dr. Kapra Mill Opposite Satish Park, Modinagar-201204,Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.knmiper.ac.in

Indian Institute of Pulses Research

Type: Public (Under the Indian Coun-cil of Agricultural Research)

Year of Setup: 1966

Courses: Research area related to biotechnology are: Development of functional transgenics, Development of genetic and genomic resources for major pulse crops, Genomics enabled molecular breeding in major pulses, Functional genomics, allele mining and proteomics

Contact Person: Dr. Narendra Pratap Singh (Director)


Phone: 0512-2572011, 0512-2570264

Address: Indian Institute of Pulses Re-search, Kanpur-208024, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.iipr.res.in


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Uttar PradeshIndian Institute of Toxicology Research

Indian Institute of Vegetable Research

Type: Public

Affiliation: Works under aegis of ICAR

Year of Setup: 1971

Courses: Projects mainly related to promote knowledge and research in vegetable crops and to advance the cause of Vegetable Science in India; Its mainly work on basic ,strategic and applied research on vegetable improve-ment ,biotechnology ,production ,pro-tection and seed production program.

Contact Person: Dr. P.S. Naik


Phone: 0542-2635247, 0542-2635236

Address: Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Post Bag No. 01; P. O. Jakh-ini (Shahanshapur),Varanasi-221305, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.iivr.org.in

Institute of Cytology & Preventive Oncology

Type: Public

Approved: ICPO is a declared WHO Collaborating Centre for Research & Training in Cytology and HPV Vaccine; Member International Union against Cancer (UICC)

Year of Setup: 1979

Courses: Conducts research on com-mon cancers prevalent in India

Contact Person: Ravi Mehrotra(Director)


Phone: 0120 -2579471

Address: Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology, I-7, Sector 39, NOIDA, Sector 39A, Sector 39, Noi-da-201303, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.icpo.org.in


Accreditation: NABL accredited labora-tory for biological and chemical testing

Year of Setup: 1965

Courses: Research area: Nanothera-peutics & Nanomaterial Toxicology; Environmental Toxicology; Food, Drug & Chemical Toxicology; Regula-tory Toxicology; Systems Toxicology & Health Risk Assessment

Contact Person: Dr. K.C. Gupta (Director)


Phone: 0522-2613786, 0522 -2627586

Address: Indian Institute of Tox-icology Research, Post Box No. 80, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Luc-know-226001,Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.iitrindia.org

Integral University

Type: Private (State University)

Year of Setup: 2004

Courses: B.Sc. Biotechnology, B.Tech Biotechnology, M.Tech Biotechnol-ogy, M.Tech Bioinformatics, M.Tech Environmental Engineering, M.Sc. Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Bioin-formatics, Microbiology

Contact Person: Prof.S.W.Akhtar (VC)


Phone: 0522-2890812, 0522-2890730

Address: Integral University, Dasauli, P.O. Bas-ha Kursi Road,Lucknow – 226026, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.integraluniversity.ac.in

I.T.S Physiotherapy & Biotechnology College

Affiliation: C.C.S University, Meerut

Year of Setup: 2005

Courses: M. Sc. in Biotechnology

Contact Person: Dr.Fanish Kumar Pandey (Principal, College of Biotech-nology)


Phone: 01232 260 765

Address: I.T.S Physiotherapy & Biotechnology College, National High-way 58, Muradnagar-201206, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.pbc.its.edu.in

Type: Under Invertis University (Private, State University)

Approved: Govt. UP, UGC, AICTE & PCI

Year of Setup: 1998

Courses: B.Pharm, M.Pharm (Phar-maceutics), M.Pharm (Pharmaceutical Chemistry), M.Pharm (Pharmacolo-gy), M.Pharm (Pharmacogonosy)

Contact Person: Prof. Jagdish Rai


Phone: 0581-2460442

Address: Invertis Village, National Highway 24, Rajau Paraspur-243123, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.invertis.org

Invertis Institute of Pharmacy


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Mode of Admission: UP Common Entrance Test


Contact Person: Dr. Kapildeo N. Singh(Prof. & Head, Deptt. of Plant Molec-ular Biology and Genetic Engineering)


Phone: 05270-262123

Address: University of Narendra Dev University of Agri. & Technology, Narendra Nagar, P.O. Kumarganj, Faiz-abad-224 229, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.nduat.in

Narendra Dev University of Agri. & Tech (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Mahila Mahavidyalaya (Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Contact Person: Prof. B. S. Gandhi (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Prof. Madhu Bala Tyagi (Deptt. of Botany)


Phone: 0542–22367927, 0542–2313689

Address: Mahila Mahavidyalaya (Women’s College) Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi -221005, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.bhu.ac.in/mmv

Uttar PradeshJaypee Institute of Information Technology


Accreditation: NAAC

Approved: UGC

Year of Setup: 2001

Courses: B.Tech in Biotechnology, M.Tech in Biotechnology, 5 year Dual Degree (B.Tech & M.Tech)

Contact Person: Prof. Sanjeev K Sharma

Email: [email protected], Us@[email protected]

Phone: 0120-2400973-976, 2400987

Address: Jaypee Institute of Infor-mation Technology, A-10,Sector-62, Noida-201307, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.jiit.ac.in

Meerut Institute of Engi-neering & Technology

Type: Private

Affiliation: UPTU, Lucknow and phar-macy affiliated to Mahamaya Technical University, NoidaAccreditation: NBAApproved: AICTEYear of Setup: 2001 (Biotech Deptt.)Courses: B. Tech., Biotechnology, M. Tech., Biotechnology, D.Pharma, B.Pharmacy, M.Pharm (Pharmaceutics), M. Pharm (Pharmacology), M. Pharm (Pharmaceutical Chemistry)Contact Person: Dr. S.K. Gupta(Director)


Phone: 0121-2439057

Address: N.H. 58, Delhi-Roorkee High-way, Baghpat Road Bypass Crossing, Meerut-250005, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.miet.ac.in

Noida Institute of Engi-neering and Technology

Affiliation: UP Technical University, Lucknow

Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 1952


Contact Person: Dr O P Agarwal (Managing Director)


Phone: 0120-2320062, 0120-2320132, 0120-6498711, 0120-6495711

Address: Noida Institute of Engineer-ing and Technology, 19, Knowledge Park-II, Institutional Area, Phase - II, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.niet.co.in

National Botanical Research Institute

Type: Public (CSIR)

Year of Setup: 1953

Courses: R&D in emerging and innovative areas of plant diversity documentation, microbiology, ge-nomics, transgenic technologies, plant physiology, cell and tissue culture, vi-rology, phytochemistry, pharmacology, toxicology and environmental biology

Contact Person: Dr.C.S.Nautiyal(Director)


Phone: 0522-2205848

Address: CSIR-National Botanical Re-search Institute, PO Box No 436, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow-226001, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: wwww.nbri.res.in


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University of Allahabad (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Dr. Shanthy Sunda-ram (Reader & Coordinator)


Phone: 0532-2545021

Address: Centre for Biotechnology, Nehru Science Complex, University of Allahabad, Allahabad- 211002, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.allduniv.ac.in

St. Andrews College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)




Contact Person: Rev. Dr. J.K. Lal(Principal)

Programme Coordinator: Dr. S. Domi-nic Rajkumar (Senior Lecturer)


Phone: 0551-2332172, 0551-2333917

Address: St. Andrews College, Gora-khpur-273001, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.standrewscollege.ac.in

Uttar PradeshSanjay Gandhi Postgrad-uate Institute of Medical Sciences

Sharda University

Type: Private (State University)

Approved: UGC, Govt. of UP, AICTE

Courses: B.Tech. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Tech. Biotech-nology & Bioinformatics.

Contact Person: Dr. Simendra Singh (Associate Professor, Biotechnology)


Phone: 0120-3121001

Address: Sharda College, Plot No. 32-34, Knowledge Park III, Greater Noida, UP 201306, Knowledge Park III, Ruhallapur-201310, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.sharda.ac.in

Type: Public University

Approved: Recognized by Medical Council of India

Year of Setup: 1988 (Deptt. of Micro-biology)

Courses: PhD (Microbiology, Medical Genetics)

Contact Person: Prof. R.K. Sharma(Director)


Phone: 0522-2668700

Address: Rae Bareli Rd, Sector 1, Vrin-davan Yojna, Lucknow-226014, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.sgpgi.ac.in

The National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 2004

Affiliation: Under the aegis of Indian Council of Agricultural Research

Courses: Undertake research related to the conservation of fish germplasm resources of the country.

Contact Person: Dr. J.K. Jena(Director)


Phone: 0522-2890812, 0522-2890730

Address: National Bureau of Fish Ge-netic Resources, (ICAR), Canal Ring Road, P.O. Dilkusha, Lucknow-226002, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.nbfgr.res.in

Affiliation: Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi


Courses: B.Sc. Biology, B.Sc. Agri-culture, M.Sc. Botany, Zoology, M.Sc. Agriculture

Contact Person: Dr. Om Prakash Singh (Dean, Faculty of Science)


Phone: 0542-2282399

Address: Udai Pratap Autonomous College, Bhojubeer, Varanasi-221002, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.upcollege.org

Udai Pratap Autonomous College


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Contact Person: Dr. Anil Kumar (Prof. & Head)


Phone: 05944-233898, 05944-233473

Address: Deptt. Of Biochemistry & MBG&E, College of Basic Science & Humanities, G.B. Pant Uni. Of Agri. & Tech., Pantnagar-263145, Uttarakhand, India

Website: www.gbpuat.ac.in

G.B. Pant University Of Agriculture & Technology(DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

University of Lucknow (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Prof. U.N. Dwivedi (Coordinator, Deptt. of Biotechnology)


Phone: 0522-2740132, 0522-2740148

Address: University of Lucknow, Lucknow-226007, Uttar Pradesh, India

Website: www.lkouniv.ac.in

Uttar Pradesh UttarakhandAlpine College of Man-agement & Technology

Type: Private

Affiliation: Uttarakhand Board of Technical Education

Approved: All India Council for Tech-nical Education

Year of Setup: 1994

Courses: B.Sc. Agriculture, B.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Botany, M.Sc. Zoology, M.Sc. Agriculture, M.Sc. Microbiology, M.Sc. Biotechnology

Contact Person: Anil Saini (Chairman)


Phone: 0135-2773869, 0135-2771628

Address: Alpine College of Manage-ment & Technology, Nanda Ki Chow-ki, Prem Nagar, Dehradun-248007, Uttarakhand, IndiaPradesh, India

Website: www.alpineddn.com

Beehive College of Advanced Studies

Type: Private

Affiliation: HBN Garhwal University

Courses: B.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Microbiology, M.Sc. Chemistry

Contact Person: Amit Kapoor(Chairman)


Phone: 0135-6451516, 0135-6542249

Address: Beehive College of Advance Studies, Beehive City, Central Hope Town, Selaqui, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Website: www.beehivecollege.com

Gyani Inder SinghInstitute of Professional Studies

Affiliation: Uttarakhand Technical University (UTU), Dehradun;Uttarakhand Board of Technical Edu-cation (UBTE), Roorkee

Approved: AICTE & PCI, New Delhi

Courses: B.Pharm, M Pharm, D.Pharm

Contact Person: Dr. Viney Chawla (Principal)


Phone: 0135-2734575, 09897608594

Address: Gyani Inder Singh Institute of Porfessional Studies, Mussoorie Di-version Road, Opp. Malsi Deer Park, Dehradun-248003, Uttarakhand, India

Website: www.gisips.com

Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar


Affiliation: UGC

Accreditation: Four Star by NAAC

Year of Setup: 1962

Courses: B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D in Zoology Botany & Microbiology

Contact Person: Prof. Surendra Kumar (VC)


Phone: 01334-311881, 01334-249013

Address: Gurukula Kangri Vishwavi-dayalaya, P.O Gurukula Kangri, Harid-war-249404, Uttarakhand, India

Website: www.gkv.ac.in


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Contact Person: Dr. Veena Pande (Head & Coordinator)


Phone: 05942-248185

Address: Deptt. Of Biotechnology, Kumaun University, Nainital-263001,Uttarakhand, India

Website: www.kunainital.ac.in

Kumaun University (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

IIT Roorkee (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)




Mode of Admission: JAM Entrance Exam


Contact Person: Dr. Ramasare Prasad (Head)


Phone: 01332-285216, 01332-285791

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnology, Indian Instt. of Technology, (formerly Univ. of Roorkee) Roorkee-247667, Uttarakhand, India

Website: www.iitr.ac.in

Uttarakhand West Bengal

HNB Garhwal Univeristy (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)






Contact Person: Prof. N. Singh (Prof. & Head)


Phone: 01370-267322

Address:Deptt. of Zoology & Biotech-nology, Post Box-57, H.N.B. Garhwal Univeristy, Srinagar, Garhwal-246174, Uttarakhand, India

Website: www.hnbgu.ac.in

Type: Public

Year of Setup: 1987

Courses: Conducting research on breeding and culture techniques of commercially important coldwater fishes and their conservation in differ-ent hill states of the country

Contact Person: Dr. A. K. Singh (Director)

Email: [email protected]; [email protected];

Phone: 05942-247280, 05942-247279

Address: Anusandhan Bhawan, Industrial Area, Bhimtal-263136, Distt: Nainital, Uttarakhand, India

Website: www.dcfr.res.in

The Directorate of Cold-water Fisheries Research

Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Kolkata

Type: Public, Regional Cancer Centre

Affiliation: Under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of India

Year of Setup: 1957

Courses: Research activities at this in-stitute had emphasized on the under-standing of the biology of cancer par-ticularly of the predominant types viz. oral cavity and uterine cervix. Offers doctoral degree as well as post-doctor-al training in cancer biology.

Contact Person: Dr. Jaydip Biswas


Phone: 2475-9313, 2475-8057

Address: Chittaranjan National cancer Institute, 37,S.P.Mukherjee Road, Kolkata-700026, India

Website: www.cnci.org.in

Haldia Institute of Technology

Type: Private

Affiliation: West Bengal University of Technology, West Bengal

Accreditation: ‘A’ by NBA

Approved: AICTE

Year of Setup: 2001

Courses: B. Tech. (Biotechnology), M.Tech. (Biotechnology)

Contact Person: Dr. Siraj Datta

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Phone: 03224-252900 Ext 234

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnolo-gy, Haldia Institute of Technology, HIT Campus, Hatiberia, Midna-pure(E),West Bengal-721657, India.

Website: www.hithaldia.in


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Lady Brabourne College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)




Contact Person: Prof. Siuli Sarkar (Principal)

Email: [email protected],www.ladybrabourne.com

Phone: 033-22897720, 033-22842071, 033-22363785

Address: Lady Brabourne College, P1/2 Suhrawardy Avenue, Kolk-ata-700017, West Bengal, India

Website: www.ladybrabourne.com

Maulana Azad College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Zoology, Botany, Microbiology, Chemistry and Physics

Contact Person: Dr. D. Banerjee(Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. S.C. Gupta(Prof. & Head, Deptt of Zoology)


Phone: 0175-2321695

Address: Maulana Azad College, 8, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road, Kolkata-700013, West Bengal, India

Website: www.maulanaazadcollege.in


Accreditation: NAAC

Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Mathe-matics, Geology and Physiology

Contact Person: Dr. Subhra Kumar Mukhopadhyay (Principal)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Subhra Kumar Mukhopadhyay

Email: [email protected], www.hooghlymohsincollege.org

Phone: 033-26802252

Address: Hooghly Mohsin College, College Road, Chinsurah Hooghly 712101,West Bengal, India

Website: www.hooghlymohsin-college.org


Courses: M.Tech. Biochemical Engg. & Biotechnology




Contact Person: Prof. T.K. Maiti (Professor & Head)


Phone: 03222-282248, 03222-283762

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnology, In-dian Institute of Technology, Kharag-pur-721302,West-Bengal, India

Website: www.iitkgp.ac.in

IIT, Kharagpur (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Hooghly Mohsin College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)

West BengalIndian Institute of Chemical Biology

Type: Public

Affiliation: CSIR

Courses: Research areas in IICB: Mo-lecular & Human Genetics, Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Cell Biology & Physiology, Drug Development, Di-agnostics & Biotechnology, Structural Biology & Bioinformatics. Post Doctor-al Fellowship Program, PhD Program, Project Assistant (PA) in CSIR Network Projects & Contract Research Projects

Contact person: Prof. Siddhartha Roy(Director)


Phone: 033-24733491/ 0492/3491

Address: Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata-700032, West Ben-gal, India

Website: www.iicb.res.in

Jadavpur University

Year of Setup: 1963 (Life Science Department)

Courses: B.Tech(Food Technology & Bio-Chemical Engineering) , M.Sc.(Biotechnology)

Contact person: Dr. Tapan Kumar Maity


Phone: 033-24572274, 033-23355215

Address: Jadavpur University, Plot No.8, Salt Lake Bypass, LB Block, Sec-tor III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata-700098, West Bengal, India

Website: www.jaduniv.edu.in


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University of North Bengal (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)







Contact Person:Dr. Ranadhir Chakraborty (Coordinator)


Phone: 0353-2582448, 0353-2582106

Address: Deptt. of Biotechnology, University of North Bengal, PO-North Bengal University, Raja Rammohun-pur, Siliguri-734430, Distt. Darjeeling, West Bengal, India

Website: www.nbu.ac.in

University of Burdwan (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)





No. of Faculty Members: 2 Contact Person: Dr. Jai Prakash Keshri (Associate Prof. & Coordinator)Email: [email protected]: 0342-2656427 (Botany), 0342-2657231 (Biotechnology)

Address: SUGC Centre for Advanced studies in Botany, The University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan-713104, West Bengal, IndiaWebsite: www.buruniv.ac.in

National Institute of Chol-era and Enteric Diseases

Type: Public (Under ICMR)

Year of Setup: 1962

Courses: Research on acute diarrhoeal diseases of diverse etiologies as well as on typhoid fever, infective hepatitis and HIV/AIDS related epidemiolog-ical research and screening. Provide : Short-Term Training programs, Doc-toral and Post Doctoral programs.

Contact Person: Dr. G. Balakrish Nair (Director)


Phone: 033-23633373, 033-23633374

Address: National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, C.I.T. Road, Scheme XM, Beleghata, Kolk-ata-700010, West Bengal, India

Website: www.niced.org.in

Presidency College(Under DBT Star College Scheme)



Supported Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Physiology

Contact Person: Prof. Timir B. Jha (Head, Deptt. of Botany)


Phone: 033-22411960, 033-22412738

Address: Presidency College, 86/1, College Street, Kolkata-700073, West Bengal, India

Website: www.presiuniv.ac.in

University of Calcatta


Year of Setup: 1857

Courses: M.Sc. in Botony ,Zoology, Biochemistry ,Biophysics and Molec-ular Biology,Bioinformatics and Bio-physics, Ph.D. Degree, Post Doctoral programs

Contact Person: Prof. Chanchal Kumar DasGupta (Prof.)

Phone: 033-2358386 / 6387 / 6396

Address: University of Calcutta, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata-700009, West Bengal, India

Website: www.caluniv.ac.in

Type: Public (State university )

Year of Setup: 1960

Courses: M.Sc., Ph.D.(Molecular Bi-ology and Biotechnology, Botony,Bio-chemistry, Microbiology

Contact Person: Prof (Dr.) Gautam Paul (The Dean, Faculty of Science)


Phone: 033-25809212(Microbiology Deptt.)

Address: Block C, University Of Kaly-ani, Kalyani-74124, West Bengal, India

Website: www.klyuniv.ac.in

University of Kalyani

West Bengal


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Courses: M.Tech. Biochemical Engg. & Biotechnology




Contact Person: Dr. Subrata Kumar Dey (Head, Deptt. of Biotechnology)


Phone: 033-23210731, Ext. No. 204

Address: Director, School of Biotech-nology,West Bengal Univ. of Technolo-gy, BF- 142, Sector-1, Bidhannagar, Salt Lake City, Kolkata-700064, West Bengal, India

Website: www.wbut.ac.in

West Bengal Univ. of Technology (DBT supported Post-graduate Teaching Program in Biotech)


Supported Departments: Zoology

Contact Person: Dr. Tapan Kumar Mishra (Principal)

Program Coordinator:Dr. Gobinda Chandra Sadhukhan (Associate Pro-fessor, Deptt. of Zoology)


Phone: 033-24413018, 033-22414447

Address: Vidyasagar College, 39, Sankar Ghosh Lane, Kolkata–700006, West Bengal, India

Website: www.vidyasagarcollege.edu.in

Visva-Bharati, Santini-ketan (DBT supported Postgraduate Teaching Program in Biotech)

Vidyasagar College (Under DBT Star College Scheme)

West Bengal







Contact Person: Prof. S.P. Adhikary(Coordinator, Centre for Biotechnology)


Phone: 03463-261101, 03463-22611676

Address: Centre for Biotechnology, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan-731235, West Bengal, India

Website: www.visva-bharati.ac.in

NOTE:

1. The information provided in the above (Institution Listings) section is based on the inputs received from the universities/colleges. In cases where the institutions have not sent their feedback, the required information has been taken from the respective websites.

2. An attempt has been made to cover maximum number of educational and research institutions across the country but in case if some prominent institutes are found missing, we would solicit your help in including them in the future. Please do send us your feedback at: [email protected]


About bIRAC

Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council

(BIRAC) a Section 25 'Not-for-Profit' company of

Government of India, registered under India Companies

Act 1956, has been set up as Department of Biotechnol-

ogy's interface agency, which serves as a single window

for the emerging biotech industries.

BIRAC is guided by an Independent Board of Directors

comprising senior professionals, academicians, policy

makers and industrialists. BIRAC aims to become a

dynamic organization, applying unique methodologies

for nurturing the high risk projects which hold potential

for commercialization. BIRAC would like to position itself

as an organisation nurturing and promoting innovation

led research and will play an important role as a facilitator

and not merely a service provider.

SuppoRtIng InnovAtIon At EvERy StAgE of pRoduCt dEvElopmEnt

ouR vISIon

To stimulate, foster and enhance the strategic research

and innovation capabilities of the Indian biotech industry,

particularly start-ups and SME’s, for creation of affordable

products addressing the needs of the largest section of

society.

KEy StRAtEgIESFostering innovation in the biotech enterprise requires

special emphasis on empowerment of researchers,

start-ups and SMEs, for which our strategies are:

• Foster innovation and entrepreneurship in all places

of research

• Promote affordable innovation in key social sectors

• Higher focus on start-ups and SMEs

• Contribute through partners for capability enhancement

• Encourage diffusion of innovation through partners

• Enable commercialization of discovery

• Ensure global competitiveness of Indian enterprises

BIG SBIRI

BIPP

CRS

Commercial Scale-Up

Application Development

Technology Development

New Ideas

ProductDevelopment

Application Identification

Proof of Concept

Technology Transfer

Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) Scheme

Establish and validate Proof of Concept so as to encourage researchers to take technology closer to market through Start-Ups• BIG was launched in 2012

and 36 young entrepreneurs have been supported so far. An initital seed fund of R50.00 lakhs is provided

for Discovery to Proof of Concept

Small Business Innovation Research Inititative (SBIRI) Support

• To nurture high risk, highly innovative accelerated technologies/ entrepreuneurs

• Support early stage, proof -of-concept research → 155 projects supported

→ Committed fund- R221 crores (USD 37m) as BIRAC/ DBT contribution

→ R240 crores (USD 41m) invested by industry

Total cumulative investments for all projects is R461 crores (USD 78m)

Contract Research Scheme (CRS)

Facilitating technology validation and development• Transfer of the public sec-

tor research leads has been given a major boost with Contract Research Scheme.The technology leads of public sector are moving forward for industry validation. 10 such partnerships have been supported

Bio-Incubator Support Scheme (BISS)

Establish, strengthen and upgrade bio-incubators for providing incubation space to start-up companies• Support extended to 12 existing Incubators• ~70,000 sq. ft. of bio-incubator space created

Social Innovation Programme for Products Affordable and Relevant to Societal Health (SPARSH)

• Fund innovations with social goals• Create and foster a pool of

social innovators• Focusing on Maternal and

Child health

Grand Challenges - Reinvent the Toilet Challenge - India (RTTC-India)

• Support the development of innovative sanitation technolo-gies, products and services

For more details about BIRAC and its programmesPlease visit www.birac.nic.in

Biotechnology Industry Partnership Programme (BIPP) Support

• For high risk, highly innovative accelerated technology

→ 119 agreements signed → 96 companies involved, 16 start-ups, 65 SME’s,

33 Academic partners → R 329 crore (USD 56m) as BIRAC/ DBT contribution → R526 crore (USD 89m) as

company contributionTotal investment committed R 855 crore (USD 145m)

✳ 1USD = 58.84 INR

Grand Challenges India - Agriculture and Nutrition

Collaborative programme of DBT, BMGF, USAID and BIRAC • Support for agriculture and

nutrition research• Support for interventions in

addressing low birth weight, early stunting and wasting among infants

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