CCMB invites startups to join fight against COVID
The Hindu
Atal Incubation Centre-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB) is inviting entrepreneurs and innovators with promising technologies to join its COVID-19 Technology Deployment (CoviTeD)
Atal Incubation Centre-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB) is inviting entrepreneurs and innovators with promising technologies to join its COVID-19 Technology Deployment (CoviTeD) Acceleration Program.
This is a CSR initiative of Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL) to provide high impact mentoring, financial, regulatory and marketing support to take these products and technologies to market. The focus areas are medical devices for management of COVID-19 patients, quantifiable tests for ancillary markers of COVID, rapid diagnostics, drugs and therapeutics, sterilisation and hygiene, and logistics for biologicals.
The applicant must be a startup/company registered in India, with at least 51% Indian shareholding, and with a competent team in place, preferably with a domain expertise. Association with the incubator (resident or virtual mode) would be preferred. Individual innovators with promising technologies can be supported.
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