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Facility augmentation of Bharat Biotech and three other PSEs being supported for augmented production of Covaxin: Health Minister expresspharma
August 09, 2021
CDSCO puts in place system to fast track processing of application for clinical trial and approval for COVID-19 vaccines.
NASSCOM, BIRAC launch ‘JAN-Care’ challenge to scale health tech innovation expresspharma
December 29, 2020
It will identify up to 25 best health tech solutions from startups/ SMEs and provide pilot testbeds in collaboration with State governments and industry to help their validation and scale-up for adoption.
Dr Reddy’s partners with BIRAC for Sputnik V clinical trials in India expresspharma
October 30, 2020
The partnership will allow Dr Reddy’s to identify and use some of BIRAC’s clinical trial centres for the vaccine, which are funded under the National Biopharma Mission (NBM), implemented by Project Management Unit-NBM at BIRAC.
DBT-BIRAC COVID-19 research consortium recommends 70 proposals for funding in vaccines, diagnostics, expresspharma
May 12, 2020
The shortlisted proposals includes10 vaccines candidates, 34 diagnostics products or scale-up facilities, 10 therapeutics options, two proposals on drug repurposing and 14 projects which are categorised as preventive interventions.
DBT and BIRAC recommend 16 proposals for funding support towards COVID-19 Research Consortium expresspharma
April 21, 2020
In the wake of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) inviting applications on COVID-19 Research Consortium, around 500 applications were received from academia and industry.