CSIR-CCMB to collaborate with Institut Pasteur
The Hindu
Reserach for precision and personalised medicines
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) through the Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB) will be collaborating with Institut Pasteur (France) in specific health research fields, including genomics of inherited diseases, which will lead to precision and personalised medicines.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between CSIR Ddirector general Dr. Shekhar Mande and Institut Pasteur president Prof. Stewart Cole on Tuesday to take the initiative forward. The question of infectious diseases and their ability to re-emerge, better understanding of antimicrobial resistance and research in the development of new models for drug screening are the other areas of collaborative research being planned.
The pact is a follow up of Prof. Cole’s visit to CSIR-CCMB in January 2020 here when scientists of both research institutes had decided to collaborate on the subjects mentioned above. This is also a jointeffort to tackle potential new global health threats that could surface in future, said an official release.