Indian Research Institutions and Oxford Nanopore collaborate to establish Genomic CoE

Oxford Nanopore and BRIC Institutes sign Letters of Intent to establish two Centres of Excellence in genomics in India - Express Pharma

The initiative was formalised in the presence of Dr Rajesh Gokhale, Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT). These Centres will work across rare diseases, cancer, and infectious disease surveillance. The objective is to align with India’s public health strategies and national genomic ambitions. The CoEs are expected to also act as platforms for education and skill development in sequencing technologies. The first Letter of Intent, bet…

Indian Research Institutions and Oxford Nanopore collaborate to establish Genomic CoE

Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the global company behind a new generation of nanopore-based molecular sensing technology, announced it has signed Letters of Intent with the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council-Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (BRIC-CDFD), and the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council–National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (BRIC-NIBMG), which commit to the establishment of two new Indian Centres of…