Bengal Institute of Technology - [BIT]

College: Tech Town, on Basanti Highway, No. 1 Govt. Colony, Kolkata-700150, West Bengal, India.

Corporate: EM-4/1, Sector-V, Salt Lake, West Bengal, India, Kolkata-700091.

Over the last 15 years, the Department of Biotechnology has established itself as one of the finest places for nurturing budding biotechnologists in the state because of a unique integrated approach towards education as well as research.

We at the department of Biotechnology encourage students to think out of the box besides regular curricular work. Students participate in active research work under the direct guidance of teachers in the well-equipped laboratories; many such research works have been presented and well appreciated in different symposia and conferences in the country.

Impart quality undergraduate education on biotechnology and its allied areas through advanced teachinglearning processes to create a pool of competent Biotechnologists with expertise in biological engineering with new ideas and motivation to tackle emerging problems and challenges of the 21st Century.

The department held a MoU with M/s BioBharti Life Sciences, SHRM etc. for advanced hands-on job training in molecular biology, recombinant DNA technology and proteomics......

The Department conducts various sponsored research projects for both B Tech (BT) students and PG Students of other Universities and Institute. Notable among them is a project funded by Ministry of Food Processing and Horticulture, Govt. of West Bengal that has just been successfully completed.

The department arranges on a regular basis, seminar/webinar where students get opportunity to interact directly with eminent scientists from CSIR laboratories and other institutes and universities as well as from foreign universities like Stanford University, Bremen University etc...