Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)

Research: Entomology.

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Krishi Anusandhan Bhavan, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012. Telefax: (011) 25843657. http://www.icar.org.in/

Research:

ICAR includes Institutes, Bureaux, National Research Centres and Project Directorates having manpower of about 30,000 personnel out of which nearly 7000 are engaged in active research and its management. Under the aegis of ICAR 38 Agricultural Universities (SAUs) employ about 26,000 scientists for teaching, research and extension education; of these over 6000 scientists are employed in the ICAR supported coordinated projects. ICAR has large number collabrations with national and international institutions. It acts as a repository of information and provides consultancy on agriculture, horticulture, resource management, animal sciences, agricultural engineering, fisheries, agricultural extension, agricultural education, home science and agricultural communication. ICAR trains 6 lakh farmers are trained every year in various fields of agriculture such as Crop Production, Plant Protection, Livestock Production and Management, Soil and Water Management, home science, poultry, dairying, piggery, bee-keeping, fisheries, fruit & vegetable preservation, maintenance and repairing of farm machinery and tools, and hybrid seed production. Organizes summer training, workshops, seminars and winter schools. Can procure CDs at affordable price on various aspects of agriculture.

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), research complex for eastern region (ICAR ER), Patna- 801 505 Bihar

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), research complex for Goa, (ICAR GOA), Goa- 403 402.

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), research complex for Neh region (ICAR Neh), Barapani- 793 103, meghalaya.

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)

Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute (IGFRI), Jhansi

Indian Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Post Box No. 80, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow - 226 001, India. Phone (Director's Office): +91-522-2621856, 2628227, 2613357. http://www.iitrindia.org/

Research: Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR) (formerly: Industrial Toxicology Research Centre), is a constituent laboratory of CSIR. It studies the impact of industrial and environmental chemicals on human health and ecosystem, and environmental monitoring of pollutants in air, water and soil. The institute also helps regulatory bodies to formulate/amend guidelines for safe use of chemicals or products. Major research areas are Analytical Chemistry, Aquatic toxicology, Biomembrane Toxicology, Cardiovascular Toxicology, Cell Biology, Developmental Toxicology, Dyes & Food Adulterant Toxicology, Ecotoxicology, Embryotoxicology , Environmental Biotechnology , Environmental Carcinogenesis, Environmental Chemistry &  Waste Water Analysis, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Monitoring, Epidemiology, Fibre Toxicology, Herbal Research, Immunobiology, Immunotoxicology, Inhalation Toxicology, Neurotoxicology, Pesticides Toxicology,

Petroleum Toxicology, Photobiology, Preventive Toxicology, Proteomics, Safety Evaluation of GM-Drugs, Toxicokinetics, Toxicogenomics & Predictive Toxicology.

Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), 4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata-700 032, West Bengal, India. Phone : +91 33 2473 0492. Fax: +91 33 2473 5197, +91 33 2472 3967. e-Mail : director@iicb.res.in. http://www.iicb.res.in/  Research: A unit of CSIR. Research work done in Cell Biology & Physiology, Chemistry, Molecular & Human Genetics, Infectious Diseases, Drug Development / Diagnostics & Biotechnology and Structural Biology & Bioinformatics. Developed bioinformatics programmes (GCA & Clusterviz for clustering protein and gene sequencing), SPAT- software tool for nucleotide and amino acid substitution study, study Homology Modeling, Delph, Biopolymer, DOCKING; cardiac disfunction and hormones, neurological disorder, stem cell and corneal implantation, sperm motility, visceral leishmaniasis. It smolecular and Human genetics division aims to understand the molecular genetic basis of diseases common in Indian populations (haemophilia, glaucoma, Wilson disease, and oculo-cutaneous albinism), genetic damage due to arsenic, antimutagenic and anticarcinogenic effects of black tea polyphenols, study gene expression and function in pathogenic microorganisms (V.cholerae, Leishmania), DNA Vaccine against leishmaniasis, programmed cell death and to develop transgenic plants for pest resistant & improved  pharmaceutical/nutraceuticals. Offers PhD programmes.

Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - 500 007. Phone:91-40-27160123(20 lines), 91-40-27193030. Fax: 040-27160387. www.iictindia.org/ 

Course: Offers advanced course in Bioinformatics.

Research:A unit of CSIR. Major research areas at IICT are: Natural Products Chemistry, Agrochemicals, Drugs & Intermediates, Speciality and Fine Chemicals, Fluoroorganics, Lipid Sciences & Technology, Coal, Gas & Energy, Chemical Engineering and Design & Engineering. IICT ’s carry out research in the chemical sciences leading to innovative processes for a variety of products as food, health and energy More than 150 technologies developed by IICT are now in commercial production. It has received several sponsored and consultancy projects from the industry, year after year. The external cash flow of IICT for the year 2003-04 is around Rs.16.5 crores. With over 450 highly professional and dedicated scientists and technical officers/technicians, excellent laboratory and instrument facilities for research in chemical sciences and technology and allied sciences, IICT is known nationally as well as internationally for its contributions both in basic and applied research. Specified research areas include: toxicological studies, Biomarkers, alternate methods for pest control, insect plant interactions.

Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR)  

Research: Division of Entomology and Nematology; Biocontrol-insect Pathology.

Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine(IIIM), (formerly Regional research laboratory), Canal Road, Jammu Tawi - 180 001. Phone: 2569111, 2569222; Fax: 2569333 STD Code: 0191. Email: sctaneja@yahoo.com. http://rrljammu.org/index1.htm

Research:A unit of CSIR. Its R&D units consist of Biotech, pharmacology and natural product chemistry. Its biotech section has facility of pilot plant, with Micro-processor controlled fomenters (1- 4,000 liter capacity), and state-of–art equipment required for Microbiology, Bio-Chemistry, Enzymology, Genetic Engineering and Bio-Chemical Engineering. isolation of microbes, their identification (by both conventional as well as molecular markers), characterization, -preservation and screening for specific microbial enzymes and secondary metabolites are carried out. The microbial strains encoding such enzymes are identified up to species level by 16S rRNA gene typing. The specific enzymes are purifiedto homogeneity using FPLC. Terminal sequencing is undertaken for designing the primers for the location & cloning of desired gene(s). Selected wild type and recombinant strains are grown at lab to pilot scale fermentors.The strategies of scale-up or scale-down are selected depending upon the nature of the process under study. The pilot plant is well equipped for down stream processing of the microbial biomass for the isolation of desired biomolecules/products. The Molecular biology and Genetic Engineering laboratories are well equipped to undertake gene cloning, heterologous expression, sequencing, RACE and RTPCR of selected genes. The lab has ABI 310 automated DNA sequence and Shimadzu automated N-terminal protein sequencer for amino acid sequencing. The lab is also well equipped to undertake plant molecule-based biopotentiator molecules for enhancing the effect of anti-bacterial and anti-fungal drugs. Its Natural Product chemistry division has Research and Development in the area of (i) herbal drugs, drug formulation and end-to-end technology on medicinal plants (ii) isolation of bioactivity guided extracts, fractions and new molecules (iii) standardization, quality control and isolation of marker compounds (iv) process development and upscaling of technologies for value added phytochemicals and phytopharmaceuticals and chemistry of essential oil bearing plants and their value added products. In the Pharmacology division the plant based products (extracts/fractions/pure principles) are subjected to battery of well established in vitro as well as in vivo tests for their Biopotential, efficacy and biosafety. The spectrum of bioactivities is mainly focussed in areas like, Bioenhancer and bioavailability, Hepatoprotective, Anticancer, Antidiabetic, Antiinflammatory & antiarthritis, Immunomodulatory, General pharmacological, Transgenic animals for pharmacogenomics, Maintenance and breeding of lab. Animals.

Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR)

Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore

Research: Genetic Engineering, biochemistry, microbiology, cell biology. Offers PhD programmes.

Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (IIVR)

Indian Lac Research Institute, (ILRI) Namkum, Ranchi JHARKHAND PIN 834010, 0651-52020232

Research: An ICAR unit. The only research Institute of its kind in the world, being devoted exclusively to all aspects of lac research including   its cultivation, processing, value addition and utilisation.

Indian Toxicology Research Centre (ITRC), Lucknow.

Indian Vaccines Corporation Limited, Gurgaon.

Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Email: singh@wiprobt.ems.vsnl.net.in, Izatnagar. Uttar Pradesh PIN 243122

0581-44728433.

Indian veterinary research institute (IVRI), Izatnagar 243 122, U.P.

Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur

Course: M.Sc. Agricultural Biotechnology.

Industrial Toxicology Research Centre (ITRC), Lucknow, www.itrcindia.org.

Institute for Research in Reproduction (IRR), Mumbai, An ICMR unit.

Institute of cytology and preventive oncology (ICPO), Delhi. An ICMR unit.

Institute of Imunohaematology (IIH), Mumbai, An ICMR unit.

Institute of Life Sciences, Bhuvaneswar. http://www.ilsc.org.

Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, Delhi .

Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh-160036 (INDIA). PH: +91-172-2695215, 2695225, 2636680-94. www.imtech.res.in

Research: A unit of CSIR. Molecular Biology: Molecular biology of pathogens, gene silencing, stress tolerance, signal transduction, gene expression, genome-wide analysis. Cell Biology & Immunology: Host- pathogen interactions, TB vaccine development, T- and B-cell activation, infectious agents & vaccine targets, cell structure & microscopy, vaccines. Bioinformatics: Computer-aided vaccine and drug development, genome annotations, protein structure prediction, molecular simulations. Bioorganic Chemistry: Enzymes and abzymes in organic synthesis. Peptide Chemistry: Peptide synthesis, conformational characterization and modelling. PhD program and Trainee.

Institute of Pathology (IOP), Delhi, Research: An ICMR unit.

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB). Research: Offers PhD programmes.