ILS Bhubaneswar part of a team looking for medicinal molecules in Bacterias
February 23rd, 2008
Following is an excerpt from a report in indiainfoline.com.
Nicholas Piramal India Ltd. said on Friday that NPIL Research & Development Ltd. (NRDL) has signed an agreement with the Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi on ‘Screening for Bio-molecules from Microbial Diversity Collected from Different Ecological Niches’, thereby initiating an industry – university / national institute partnership programme in drug discovery.
An agreement was signed on Feb. 22, in the presence of Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister of Science & Technology between the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), New Delhi, and NRDL of Nicholas Piramal, Mumbai, to initiate an industry – university / national institute partnership programme in drug discovery.
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has recently initiated a network project called ‘Screening for Bio-molecules From Microbial Diversity Collected From Different Ecological Niches’. The public private partnership project involves nine institutes, with NRDL, Mumbai, as an industrial partner. The total cost of the project is about Rs250mn, Rs180mn of which will be contributed by the Government and Rs70mn by NRDL.
The participating institutes are: National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur. National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune. Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi. University of Delhi, South Campus (UDSC), Delhi. Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneshwar. M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai.
Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar. Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Imphal. National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Panjim. The project envisages a mega-scale screening programme for various environmental isolates. This is the first project in the country in which industry and academia will work together to screen such a large number of bacterial isolates.
Different academic institutes will isolate organisms specific to diverse ecological niches. For each sample, isolation of bacteria will be carried out on 30 different growth media. This multi-institutional effort will generate approximately 7000 isolates / month (~1000/institute), which will be regularly sent to NRDL, the industrial partner of the project. Each of these institutes is an expert in niche areas of microbial biodiversity. The microbial isolates have not been tested for potent medicinal properties, if any.
Entry Filed under: Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar
5 Writeup
1. violet | July 26th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I am a MSc fresher in biotechnology with first division and i am interested to join the project.please let me know the details of it.
2. swagatika das | November 20th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I am a postgraduate in biotechnology from Bangalore University have worked as an analyst in bangalore test house would like to join your project kindly guide me.
3. soumya ranjan pattnaik | August 26th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
hello,m soumya 4m bbsr,studyin M.Sc.biotechnology ,3rd sem, at kiit university. i would like 2 join some project work in d month of of january-june.wud u like 2 help me.
4. SUCHISMITA | February 9th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
sir, i m doing M.sc biotechnology in MITS school of biotechnology. i want to do a project under your guidance. sir plz help me.
5. snehanjali behera | August 30th, 2010 at 12:27 am
HELLO SIR, I AM SNEHA DOING M SC BIOTECH in NOU ,3rd sem,want to do a project under ur guidance.plz help me sir.