Saturday, February 1, 2014

BIRAC 5th Call for proposals Under Contract Research and Services Scheme (CRSS) to facilitate Academia-Industry Interaction

BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY RESEARCH ASSISTANCE COUNCIL
A Government of India Enterprise
Set up by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India

CALL FOR PROPOSAL

5th  Call for proposals
Under
Contract Research and Services Scheme (CRSS) to facilitate Academia-Industry Interaction
(1 February to 17 March, 2014)


Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), a Section 25 'Not-for-Profit Company' of Government of India, has been set up as Department of Biotechnology's interface agency, to develop lab scale technologies into products  through public-private partnership
Key Features
 * Contract Research and Services Scheme (CRSS) provides support to academia in the form of grant-in-aid for taking proof of concept (PoC) of their leads /technologies towards commercial scale with industry under a specific contract and fee structure.
* Exploratory research or fundamental discovery with no PoC will be discouraged.
* The requirements of the Academic groups for some specific services from the industry such as toxicology studies, gene sequencing towards translational work, studies using specific industrial equipment etc. forming a part of commercial scale development could also be supported under this scheme.

Title
BIRAC Announces Contract Research and Services Scheme (CRS) - Fifth Call for Proposals

Introduction
Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), a Section 25 ‘Not-for-Profit Company’ of Government of India, has been set up as Department of Biotechnology’s interface agency, which serves as a single window for nurturing and promoting innovation led research

Click here to view advertisement: http://birac.nic.in/webcontent/CRS_Vth_Call.pdf


Modalities of Funding
The academic partner will be provided Grant-in-aid for further translational workrequiredat their site(if any) and for thecontract research/service component(s) to be outsourced to the collaborating company(ies).

How to Apply?
Proposals under CRSS are required to be submitted online only.
For submission of proposals, institution need to register with BIRAC through “Institution User Registration”. Detailed guidelines are available at http://www.birac.nic.in

User Registration is open round the clock.
Online Proposal Submission would begin from 1st  February 2014
No hard copy to be submitted. Proposals submitted online only would be considered.

Last date for Submission of Proposals under the CRSS scheme 17th  March 2014


Who Can Apply?
Academia has to be the primary applicant with one or more partners of which at least one of them has to be a company

Primary applicant (academia)

Public/ Private Universities and Research Institutions having a well-established research support system for basic or applied research  are eligible.

Primary applicant may consider the following as partner(s)
a.    Academia that are meeting the criterion mentioned above for the Primary applicant.
b.    Indian Company(ies), registered under the Indian Companies Act 1956  with atleast 51%  Indian shareholding and having DSIR* recognised in-house R&D unit.(*Companies in the process of obtaining DSIR recognition may also  be considered)

Eligible Categories and Corresponding Relevant Areas
Agriculture, Agriculture - Field Trials, Agriculture - Transgenics, Agriculture -Marker Assisted Selection, Agriculture-Molecular Biology, Agriculture-RNAi, Agriculture-Tissue Culture, Bio- medical devices and instruments, Bio-energy, Bioinformatics,Computational, Environmental biotechnology, Formulational Development, Health Care Clinical trials, Health-care, Healthcare- Molecular Biology, Healthcare- Preclinical, HealthCare-Diagnostics, Healthcare-Oncology, HealthCare-Vaccines, Biosimilars ,Biologicals, Industrial products and processes, New Drug Discovery, Development, Nutraceuticals,

How to Apply?
For further details, please contact:
Dr. Amita Joshi, Programme Manager, BIRAC

User Registration is open round the clock.

Online Proposal Submission would begin from 01stFebruary, 2014

No Hard Copy to be submitted, Proposals submitted online only would be considered.

Last date for Submission of Proposals under  the CRS Scheme: 17th March 2014

Announcement Date 01/02/2014
Last Submission Date 17/03/2014  

For further details, please contact:
Dr. Amita Joshi, Manager Technical, BIRAC

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