Department of Biotechnology Ministry of Science & Technology

Government of India

Promoting Women in Science

Initiatives of Department of Biotechnology

• Research & Development

• Infrastructure

• Human Resource Skill Development

• Public Private Partnership

Focus

Department of Biotechnology Set up in 1986

“To use powerful tools of biotechnology to help convert the country’s diverse biological resources to useful products and processes that are accessible to its masses for economic development and employment generation”

Vision

~ 500 R&D projects supported each year across various areas

~600 universities / institutes supported involving over 2500 scientists

15 Autonomous Institutes, 17 Centres for Excellence, 3 Biotech Clusters, 6 Biotech Parks and 25 Bioincubators supported

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International Collaborations-more than 16 countries

HRD

Societal Development

Special programme for NER

PPP-Industry academia interaction with Global Partnerships

Biology Across Scales

Basic Research Modern Biology, Genome Engineering,

Bioinformatics and computational Biology, Nano Sciences

Human Healthcare

Vaccines, Drugs, Therapeutics, Devices and Diagnostics,

biomarkers, cell & tissue engineering products, Stem Cell &

Regenerative Medicine, artificial organs, Nano based drug

delivery systems, biobased implants and devices,

Bioengineering, Human Genetics and Genome Analysis ,

Food and Nutrition

Areas of Support and Research Priorities for Promoting the Science

Agriculture-Transgenics crops, designer breeding, plants as biofactories, biopesticides, biofertilizers,

Aquaculture & Marine, Veterinary Transgenics, vaccines, diagnostics, feed, biofactories

Environment Bioremediation, pollution abatement, biofuels

Industrial Biotechnology

Enzymes, biomass based bioproducts, disposable GMP

biofactories, plant based bioactives bionutraceuticals,

biosensors, bioequipment and enabling technology platforms

Energy Biosciences Bioresource Development and Utilization

Bioactives and drugs, biological processes, microbial

prospecting

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Agriculture: Bt Cotton

India partnered with 15 countries to sequence 17,000 million bases of Wheat genome. Indian Scientists participated in Decoding Chromosome 2A.

Rice Genome Consortium (a consortium of 12 countries) -sequence Chromosome 11.

Assay kit for pregnancy diagnosis in buffaloes

Detection kit for Shrimp's WSSV virus Infection

Anthrax vaccine

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Healthcare:

HIV Tri-dot detection Kit

Leprovac Vaccine

Indigenous Rotavirus vaccine

Dengue detection kit

Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine

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Various Repositories BIOSAFETY GUIDELINES

BIOCARE Biotechnology Career Advancement

and Re-orientation Programme for Women

Scientists

“To build capacities for women scientists employed

fulltime in Universities and small research

laboratories or unemployed women scientists after

a career break so as to help them undertake

independent R&D projects.”

AIM

Eligibility Criteria: M.D/M. Tech /Ph. D/Equivalent degree in any branch of Life Sciences.

Women Scientists who are employed or unemployed or are desirous of coming back after a break.

Women Scientists for whom it is the first grant as principal Investigator.

Women Scientists upto 55 years of age

Two categories :

Research Grant Opportunity (RGO)

• Unemployed –Emoluments ranging from Rs. 50,000/-

to 60,000/- p.m.

• Employed women Scientists in addition to salary -

Rs.10,000/- p.m as an incentive.

• Research grant of upto Rs. 60.00 lakhs.

Early Career Scientists (ECS)

• Scientists having experience less than two years -

monthly emolument of Rs. 50,000/- .

• Research grant of upto Rs. 40.00 lakhs.

Support for 3 years.

Achievements of the Scheme

Four calls have been announced so far since inception of the scheme in 2011 AREAS OF SUPPORT: BASIC BIOTECHNOLOGY

PLANT & AGRICULTURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

COMPOUNDS OF INDUSTRIAL / MEDICINAL UTILITY

ANIMAL & MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

BIO-ENGINEERING, BIOMATERIAL AND BIOINFORMATICS

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY / BIOENERGY

MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Four calls : 3156 LOIs/Proposals have been received. 315 Projects have been granted.

Area wise distribution of projects supported

Women Scientists supported Employed /Unemployed

Sl.

No

Year of project

sanctioned

Employe

d

Unemploye

d

Total Call

1. 2011-12 17 10 27 First call

2. 2012-13 15 17 32

3. 2013-14 29 34 63 Second

call

4. 2014-15 48 36 83 Third call

5. 2015-16 6 4 10

6. 2017-18 37

64

101

Fourth Call

Total 150 165# 315

# Out of 165 Unemployed scientists, 19 have got permanent jobs

after getting BioCARe projects

Experience Wise details of the unemployed scientists Sl. No Year 0-5 5-10 >10 Total

1. 2011-12 5 2 3 10

2. 2012-13 14 2 1 17

3. 2013-14 24 5 4 33

4. 2014-15 27 9 1 36

5. 2015-16 2 1 1 4

6. 2017-18 51 10 3 64

Total 123 29 13 165

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Age wise details of Women Scientists Supported

Sl. No Year of

Sanction

25-40 yrs 41-50yrs 51-55yrs Total

1. 2011-12 20 15 2 37

2. 2012-13 17 4 - 21

3. 2013-14 32 27 4 63

4 2014-15 62 20 1 83

5. 2015-16 8 2 - 10

6. 2017-18 88 13 - 101

Total 227 81 7 315

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Achievements of Women Scientists supported under BioCARe

19 Women Scientists got employment after

getting BIOCARE projects

More than100 papers published

2 patents have been filed and 2 are under

process

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Details of projects with Women Scientists As Principal Investigator supported by DBT in projects/Schemes other than BIOCARE

Year Received Sanctioned

2012-13 565 119

2013-14 766 96

2014-15 410 90

2015-16 680 55

2016-17 848 44

2017-18 674 53

3943 457

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Biotechnology Based programme for Women

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“To create platform for self-employment generation by diffusion of proven and field-tested technologies through demonstration, training and extension activities.”

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Projects aiming to promote use of biotechnological processes and tools for the benefit of women are supported

In agriculture and animal husbandry fish farming, poultry farming, pig production, goat farming, value added products, floriculture, hybrid seed production, integrated farming system, Entrepreneurship development,

bio-resource utilization,

women and child health, hygiene and nutrition.

Large numbers of Women Self Help Groups benefited. Biotechnology-led-Socio-economic empowerment of

Farm Women progamme implemented by IARI, New Delhi, Deen Dayal Institute, Chitrakoot and Participatory Rural Development Foundation (PRDF), Gorakhpur UP- 21 Women Self Help groups were introduced for taking up improved agricultural technology through demonstrations and trainings- introduction of nutrition garden, new crops and varieties of wheat, rice, berseem, mustard, moong, maize, oat, barley, cotton, different vegetables, fodder crops etc.

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Rural Biotechnology Innovation and Application Unit (RBTIAU) has been established and working as a single window delivery system for the adopted villages in imparting information on new technologies, improved tools, farm implements etc. The implementation of this project helped in drudgery reduction by using new farm tools demonstrated in the project areas.

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A Breast cancer screening programme supported in four districts of North-East India namely Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura through Cancer Foundation of India, Kolkata in which more than 11000 women have been sensitized on breast health.

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Awareness generation and screening for cervical cancer in women was implemented by Government Medical College, Srinagar, Jammu& Kashmir in which more than 2000 women were screened for cervical cancer

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Was set up in the year 2000 to provide opportunities for professionally qualified women to take to a career of remunerative self-employment through the organization of environment friendly biotechnological enterprises Governing Body Technologies classified into four broad segments: Agriculture, Food, Medical & Environmental Biotechnology 15 Entrepreneurs have been supported with their Units incubated at the park.

Golden Jubilee Biotech Park for Women Society

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National Women Bioscientists Awards

Outstanding contributions of women scientists in basic and applied research

Areas of biosciences and biotechnology including agricultural, biomedical and environmental sciences with potential for application/product and technology development

Inception in the Year 1999

Two categories of awards:

(i) Senior Category –Life time contribution

(ii) Young Category-Outstanding contribution below 45 years of age 54 Awards have been awarded since inception

Stimulating Bio-entrepreneurship through

Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)

a Public Sector Undertaking of DBT

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Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) was registered on 20th March ,2012 under the Companies Act, 1956 as a

Section 25 Not for Profit Company (Now a Section 8 Company under the Companies Act, 2013)

About BIRAC

Vision To Stimulate, foster and enhance the strategic research and

innovation capabilities of the Indian biotech industry, particularly start ups and SME’s, for creation of affordable products

addressing the needs of the largest section of society

Mission Facilitate and mentor the generation and translation of innovative ideas into biotech products and services by the industry, promote

academia – industry collaboration, forge international linkages, encourage techno entrepreneurship and enable creation and

sustainability of viable bio enterprises

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Empowering, Enabling & Accelerating the Innovation Ecosystem

Access to Research Resources

Bio-incubation Space

Mentorship & Capacity Building

BIRAC: fuelling the start up revolution through impactful

innovation funding

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Mentoring and Capacity Building Programmes BRIC (BIRAC Regional Innovation Centre): BREC (BIRAC Regional Entrepreneurship Development Centre)

BIRAC BioNEST (BIRAC– Bioincubation: Nurturing Entrepreneurs for Scaling up

Technology)

BIRAC’s Programmes

Early and Late Stage Funding • Small Business Innovation Research Initiative (SBIRI) • Biotechnology Industry Partnership Programme (BIPP) • Contract Research Scheme (CRS) • BIRAC SEED Fund (Sustaining Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Development)

Nurturing Innovations • SITARE (Students Innovations for advancement of Research Explorations)

SRISTI- An initiative by BIRAC and IIM Ahmedabad • eYuva (Encouraging Youth for Undertaking Innovative Research through Vibrant

Acceleration) University Innovation Clusters (UIC) SIIP (Social Innovation Immersion Fellowship)

• BIG (Biotechnology Ignition Grant) • SPARSH (Social Innovation Programme for Products Affordable & Relevant to Societal

Health) • IIPME

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BIRAC’s Role

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BIRAC’s Impact

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Bio incubators supported

> 100 women

entrepre-neurs

50% under BIG

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Affordable Product Development

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