CSIR, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation join hands for development, conduct, promotion of health research

Gates Foundation and CSIR will work together to identify opportunities to initiate scientific and technological collaborations, it said.

'These will 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,' the statement added.

According to the MoU, areas of research collaboration would include 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; and other areas of health and development.

The MoU was signed by Hari Menon, Director, India Country Office on behalf of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and G N Dayananda, Head, Technology Management Directorate – Industry Interface, CSIR.

CSIR is India's premier S&T organisation comprising 37 research laboratories focused on diverse scientific and industrial research areas.

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