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Biotechnology
Industry Research
Assistance Council
Anju Bhalla
MD, BIRAC
iotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) is a
not-for-profit Section 8 company incorporated under the Companies
BAct, 2013 and a Schedule B, Public Sector Enterprise, set up by
Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology,
Government of India as an interface agency to strengthen and empower
the emerging biotech enterprise to undertake strategic research and
innovation, addressing nationally relevant product development needs.
DBT-BIRAC announced BIRAC is an industry-academia interface and implements its mandate
through a wide range of impact initiatives, be it providing access to risk
a COVID-19 Research
capital through targeted funding, technology transfer, IP management and
Consortium call,
handholding schemes that help bring innovation excellence to the biotech
soliciting project firms and make them globally competitive. In its eight years of existence,
proposals for developing BIRAC has initiated several schemes, networks and platforms that help to
Diagnostics, Vaccines, bridge the existing gaps in the industry-academia Innovation research and
Novel Therapeutics, facilitate novel, high quality affordable products development through
Repurposing of Drugs or cutting edge technologies. BIRAC has initiated partnerships with several
any other intervention national and global partners to collaborate and deliver the salient features
of its mandate.
for control of COVID-19
by Industry/Academia/ Employees Strength
Industry-Academia BIRAC has a contract career path for its Employees. The total number of
participation. employees is 49 (Forty-Nine).
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