CSIR DG lauds labs for role in fighting COVID
The Hindu
Addresses the staff and students of three CSIR institutes
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) Director General Shekhar Mande on Thursday commended the contributions of various labs across the country in the fight against COVID. He said that these contributions have been “diverse in setting up COVID surveillance strategies, affordable diagnostics, drugs and therapeutics development, hospital-assistive device development, and building supply chain and logistics”. Addressing the staff and students of the three CSIR institutes here – National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), he congratulated their contributions and mentioned the praise CSIR-IICT received from policy-makers for developing an adjuvant for Covaxin, making it a totally indigenously-built effective vaccine. He specifically mentioned how CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratory used its expertise of building next generation flights to build ventilators during the pandemic. They collaborated with CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology to understand how lungs and ventilators function.More Related News