Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt of India

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, has signed agreements with the Australian Department of Education, Science and Training for collaboration in important areas of biotechnology viz aquaculture and marine biotechnology, vaccines, bioenergy and biofuel, stem cell, transgenic breeding, food technology. Proposals have been invited in the area of immunomodular, immunotherapeutics, Biotechnological intervention for improved agricultural productivity and vaccines.

The Department of Biotehcnology (DBT), Govt. of India, has signed a programme of co-operation with the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 2012 to promote and develop human resource and collaborative research activities in agriculture and healthcare. Initiation of joint scientific proposals, exchange of scientists and future workshops are being discussed.

Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, has joined hands with the Academy of Finland (AoF) and Tekes, a Finnish Funding Agency for research in Technology and Innovation. The  joint projects are focused around Vaccine development and technologies therein; development of novel, innovative diagnostics using different technologies and computational biology related to drug development, synthetic biology and bio-energy. 

Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, has partnered with Canadian agencies ISTP, NRC-Canada, Grand challenges Canada and IC-IMPACTS for collaboration on convergent medical technologies, application to clean technologies and Bio-pharma and health related areas. Also, DBT is collaborating with National Research Council of Canada in plant sciences. In partnership with Grand challenges Canada, DBT is trying to address Women and children’s health, early child development, global mental health and scaling innovations at proof of concept stage.