India to Boost Biotech Research
November 29, 2007| |
India has appointed Samir Brahmachari as the new director of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the largest research agency in the country. It is the first time that the government appointed a biologist for the post. CSIR hosts more than forty laboratories with a staff of more than 18,000 scientists. Brahmachari’s appointment concurs with the approval of a national strategy for biotechnology, supported by 65 billion rupee (US $1.6 B) commitment for the next five years.
The biotechnology strategy approved by the Indian government allocates one-third of the country’s total research and development budget to biotechnology, a 450 percent increase over the next five years. With the budget boost, CSIR plans to create 50 biotech ‘centers of excellence’ by 2012.
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