The Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) celebrated its 6th Foundation Day on 20th March, 2018.
The Theme for the year 2018 is ‘Sustaining Innovation – A Market Driven Pathway’.
BIRAC is not-for-profit Public-sector Enterprise (PSE) set up by Department of Bio-Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology to empower emerging biotech industry to undertake strategic research and innovation. It is basically industry academia interface.
The event saw the announcement of the preliminary winners of the SoCH (Solutions for Community Health) awards.
SoCH (Solutions for Community Health) award is an innovation challenge award which was launched on the MyGov portal in September 2017.