Autonomous Institutions
            DBT being a visionary in biotech research and promotion established 16 autonomous
      institutes for pursuing research in various disciplines of biotechnology in the specialized areas of
      agriculture and allied science, health care, animal sciences, environment, and industry engaged in
      the theme-based research with the projects sponsored by the national and the international
      agencies. More than 80 technologies developed under the efforts of autonomous institute and
      many of them have been commercialized through technology transfer. The autonomous institute
      of DBT have several research leads including IPR/patents.
      National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi                           continued expansion of
      scientific programmes in a multi-investigators driven mode to address challenging questions in
      biology for improvement of healthcare. It also promotes state-of-art teaching and training
      facilities in advanced biological sciences using an inter-disciplinary approach so as to inculcate
      the highest level of aptitude and ability in the country’s skilled manpower pool.
      National Centre for Cell Sciences (NCCS), Pune                          has taken new initiatives in
      nurturing young scientific talent and research scholars into its PhD programme dealing with
      cutting-edge research areas in structural biology, stem cell biology, deciphering the role of RNA
      in biological control processes and the cellular and molecular basis of memory.
      Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad is
      well equipped with world class state-of-the-art instrumentation and computing infrastructure to
      facilitate working in frontier areas of research in life sciences. It provides services for
      agricultural and processed food products for testing purity of samples of agricultural commodity
      using DNA markers that can distinguish different Basmati varieties and also traits identification
      and validation. The major areas of research in the institute centred around cell signalling,
      transcription, structural biology, computational biology and bioinformatics, immunology,
      genetics and molecular pathogenesis.
      Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneshwar                        is giving focus on infectious
      disease biology, gene function and regulation and translational research. It has state-of-the-art
      infrastructural facilities for cutting-edge multidisciplinary research in frontier areas of life
      sciences.
      National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar is pursuing interdisciplinary
      research and teaching on epilepsy and brain mapping. The focus of the Institute is on generation
      of skilled manpower in brain research that would help India to achieve international leadership in
      this frontier area of science.
      National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), Delhi                               is focusing
      research on understanding of the structure, expression and function of genes along with
      arrangement of genes on plant genomes and manipulation of plant genes/genomes to breed
      improved varieties of food and industrial crops for high yields and of better quality products. It is
      making attempts to translate some of the technologies developed through basic reseach activities
      for their application in agriculture.
      Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram
      working on research programme on chronic disease biology, tropical disease biology and disease