Vision & Mission
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, with the approval of the cabinet, has subsumed its 13 Autonomous Institutions (AIs) and created one Autonomous Body, the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council (BRIC), as a registered Society. BRIC is intended to integrate the multi-disciplinary research, training, and innovation programs operational across various DBT institutions for maximum impact and establish structures that leverage existing strengths to build systemic collaborations, identify convergent directions, and set a clear path for translation and asset monetization.
Objectives
- Advance cutting-edge efforts in biotechnology by the establishment of multi-disciplinary research programs across institutional boundaries.
- Consolidate current achievements to move beyond mere enhancement of numerical metrices to expand the scale and scope of research endeavors, taking on complex, challenging questions and finding affordable, relevant solutions while expanding the frontiers and footprint of knowledge.
- Initiate immersion-based Ph.D programs in partnership with the Regional Centre of Biotechnology (RCB, Faridabad) to create interdisciplinary education and research programs that compete with the best in the world and accelerate innovation in biotechnology and contemporary areas of academic, clinical, and industrial significance.
- Global networking through the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB, New Delhi) to catalyze global multi-organizational interactions.
Fostering inter-ministerial cooperation and building synergies across institutional boundaries, BRIC will leverage existing strengths, and collaborations and expand the footprint of educational and training programmes to maximize the impact of biotech research. Altogether, this will forge new paths that strengthen and amplify the vision of national goals.