Indian genomics gets a billion-rupee boost

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Nature 409, 972 - 973 (2001) © Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

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[NEW DELHI] The Indian Council of Medical Research has pledged a billion rupees (US$21.5 million) over five years to support 70 research projects in genomics, building on the newly published human genome sequence (see Nature 409, 814–958; 2001).

The projects are aimed at developing drugs and vaccines for diseases including malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis and AIDS, says council chief Nirmal Kumar Ganguly. C. P. Thakur, the health minister, says the government will also support new centres for bioinformatics, molecular medicine, structural biology and stem-cell research.

Category: 32. Genome Project and Genomics