Call For Proposal

·         Contract Research and Services Scheme(CRS) providessupport 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 sequencingtowards translational work, studies using specific industrial equipment etc. forming a part of commercial scale development could also be supported under this scheme.

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).

Academia has to be the primary applicant with one or more partnersof which atleast 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)

For further details, please contact:

Dr. Amita Joshi, Programme Manager, BIRAC

Email: biraccrs.dbt@nic.in

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Online Proposal Submission would begin from 01^stFebruary, 2014

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

Announcement Date: 01-02-2014
Last Submission Date: 17-03-2014 12:00 AM