925APBN • Vol. 8 • No. 9 • 2004

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EDITORIAL923 Indian Biotech Blooms Forth

INDIAN BIOTECH SECTOR:TAKING STOCK927 Overview of the Indian Biotech Sector

937 Legal Environment

i) Regulatory Framework

ii) New Task Force

iii) Intellectual Property Aspects

940 Incentives for Investment in Indian Biotechnology Industry

i) Industry Development Financing

ii) Fiscal Incentives (Union Budget 2002-3)

942 State Government Initiatives: Biotech Parks / BioClusters

i) Andhra Pradesh: The Hyderabad BioClusters

ii) Karnataka: The Bangalore BioCluster

iii) Maharashatra: The Pune BioCluster

946 Human Resource Development

948 Public Research & Infrastructure Development

i) Roles of Publicly Funded R&D Laboratories

� Research Centers of DBT

� Indian Genome Initiative

� Supercomputing & Bioinformatics

� Research Centers of the Council of Science

& Industrial Research (CSIR)

� Research Centers of the Indian Council of

Agricultural Research (ICAR)

� Research Centers of the Department of

Atomic Energy (DAE)

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ii) R&D Centers Involved in Biotech Research

� Center for Cellular & Molecular Biology

(CCMB)

� Center for DNA Fingerprinting &

Diagnostics (CDFD)

� Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI)

� Central Food Technological Research

Institute (CFTRI)

� Central Institute of Aromatic &

Medicinal Plants (CIMAP)

� Indian Agriculture Research Institute

(IARI)

� Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

� Institute of Genomics & Integrative

Biology (IGIB)

� Industrial Toxicology Research Center

� National Bureau of Plant Genetic

Resources (NBPGR)

� National Botanical Research Institute

(NBRI)

� National Center for Biological Sciences

(NCBS)

� National Center for Cell Sciences

(NCCS)

� National Institute of Immunology (NII)

INDIAN BIOTECH SECTOR:ACHIEVEMENTS & SUCCESSES

960 Stem Cell Research in India — A Growing Clinical

Opportunity

962 Indian Biotech: Reaching Across the Boundaries

966 Ethnic Populations and the New Paradigm for

Dissection of A Complex Disease

969 Biotech as an India-Pakistan Peace Initiative

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