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
Email: biraccrs.dbt@nic.in
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
Email: biraccrs.dbt@nic.in
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