Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council

Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council-Announces 7th call for Proposals Contract Research Scheme (CRS) 2015 Announces 7th Call For Proposals Contract Research Scheme (CRS) Academia For Translational Research (1st February to 17th March, 2015) Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), a Public Sector Undertaking, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, has been set up as an interface agency, to nurture innovation research and promote affordable product development through public-private partnership One of BIRAC’s major focuses is enabling public funded research to be commercialized and creating effective linkages between academia and industry. Through the CRS funding, BIRAC extends support to academic institutes across the country to take forward their research leads through validation and translation by industry. Funding is in the form of grant which is given to both the academic as well as the industrial partner. Under CRS, the industry performs its role as a ‘validation partner1 and engages on a contractual basis while the IP rights reside solely with the academic partner KEY FEATURES OF THE SCHEME Contract Research Scheme supports Academia for engaging the industry in contract research mode under a specific fee structure for taking forward their leads/technologies towards validation and commercialization The Academia should necessarily have an established lead as evident by scientific data ready for validation The scheme also supports academia for some specific services such as toxicology studies, gene sequencing studies etc. as a part of validation studies and commercial scale development Grant-in-aid is provided to the academia for In-House research which forms a part of validation of the Proof of Concept The IP rights reside with the academia. The industry partner will have first right of refusal for commercial exploitation of the New IP Who can Apply Academia has to be the Primary Appli