CSIR inks MoU with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to promote health research
- The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the development, conduct and promotion of health research in India.
Terms of the MoU
- to identify opportunities to initiate scientific and technological collaborations.
- focus on developing and testing new preventions, therapies and interventions that can help to solve major health concerns that affect India and other developing countries.
Areas of research collaboration
- genetic diseases that impact infant and neonatal mortality;
- new diagnostics and devices for infectious disease and environmental surveillance;
- development of cost-effective processes for drug, vaccines, biologics, and diagnostics manufacturing;
- novel microbiome-directed foods;
- socio-economic impact of science and technological tools;
- other areas of health and development.