Promoting Women in Science

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1 Promoting Women in Science Initiatives of Department of Biotechnology Department of Biotechnology Ministry of Science & Technology Government of India

2 Department of Biotechnology Set up in 1986 Focus Research & Development Infrastructure Human Resource Skill Development Public Private Partnership

3 Vision To use powerful tools of biotechnology to help convert the country s diverse biological resources to useful products and processes that are accessible to its masses for economic development and employment generation

4 ~ 500 R&D projects supported each year across various areas ~600 universities / institutes supported involving over 2500 scientists 15 Autonomous Institutes, 17 Centres for Excellence, 3 Biotech Clusters, 6 Biotech Parks and 25 Bioincubators supported

5 International Collaborations-more than 16 countries HRD Societal Development Special programme for NER PPP-Industry academia interaction with Global Partnerships 5

6 Food and Nutrition Areas of Support and Research Priorities for Promoting the Science Biology Across Scales Basic Research Modern Biology, Genome Engineering, Bioinformatics and computational Biology, Nano Sciences Human Healthcare Vaccines, Drugs, Therapeutics, Devices and Diagnostics, biomarkers, cell & tissue engineering products, Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine, artificial organs, Nano based drug delivery systems, biobased implants and devices, Bioengineering, Human Genetics and Genome Analysis,

7 Agriculture-Transgenics crops, designer breeding, plants as biofactories, biopesticides, biofertilizers, Aquaculture & Marine, Veterinary Transgenics, vaccines, diagnostics, feed, biofactories Environment Bioremediation, pollution abatement, biofuels Industrial Biotechnology Enzymes, biomass based bioproducts, disposable GMP biofactories, plant based bioactives bionutraceuticals, biosensors, bioequipment and enabling technology platforms Energy Biosciences Bioresource Development and Utilization Bioactives and drugs, biological processes, microbial prospecting

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9 Agriculture: Bt Cotton India partnered with 15 countries to sequence 17,000 million bases of Wheat genome. Indian Scientists participated in Decoding Chromosome 2A. Rice Genome Consortium (a consortium of 12 countries) -sequence Chromosome 11. Assay kit for pregnancy diagnosis in buffaloes Detection kit for Shrimp's WSSV virus Infection Anthrax vaccine

10 Healthcare: HIV Tri-dot detection Kit Leprovac Vaccine Indigenous Rotavirus vaccine Dengue detection kit Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine 10

11 Various Repositories BIOSAFETY GUIDELINES 11

12 BIOCARE Biotechnology Career Advancement and Re-orientation Programme for Women Scientists

13 AIM To build capacities for women scientists employed fulltime in Universities and small research laboratories or unemployed women scientists after a career break so as to help them undertake independent R&D projects.

14 Eligibility Criteria: M.D/M. Tech /Ph. D/Equivalent degree in any branch of Life Sciences. Women Scientists who are employed or unemployed or are desirous of coming back after a break. Women Scientists for whom it is the first grant as principal Investigator. Women Scientists upto 55 years of age

15 Support for 3 years. Two categories : Research Grant Opportunity (RGO) Unemployed Emoluments ranging from Rs. 50,000/- to 60,000/- p.m. Employed women Scientists in addition to salary - Rs.10,000/- p.m as an incentive. Research grant of upto Rs lakhs. Early Career Scientists (ECS) Scientists having experience less than two years - monthly emolument of Rs. 50,000/-. Research grant of upto Rs lakhs.

16 Achievements of the Scheme

17 Four calls have been announced so far since inception of the scheme in 2011 AREAS OF SUPPORT: BASIC BIOTECHNOLOGY PLANT & AGRICULTURE BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPOUNDS OF INDUSTRIAL / MEDICINAL UTILITY ANIMAL & MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY BIO-ENGINEERING, BIOMATERIAL AND BIOINFORMATICS ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY / BIOENERGY MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

18 Four calls : 3156 LOIs/Proposals have been received. 315 Projects have been granted. Area wise distribution of projects supported

19 Sl. No Year of project sanctioned Women Scientists supported Employed /Unemployed Employe d Unemploye d Total Call First call Second call Third call Fourth Call Total # 315 # Out of 165 Unemployed scientists, 19 have got permanent jobs after getting BioCARe projects

20 Experience Wise details of the unemployed scientists Sl. No Year >10 Total Total

21 Age wise details of Women Scientists Supported Sl. No Year of yrs 41-50yrs 51-55yrs Total Sanction Total

22 Achievements of Women Scientists supported under BioCARe 19 Women Scientists got employment after getting BIOCARE projects More than100 papers published 2 patents have been filed and 2 are under process 22

23 Details of projects with Women Scientists As Principal Investigator supported by DBT in projects/schemes other than BIOCARE Year Received Sanctioned

24 Biotechnology Based programme for Women 24

25 To create platform for self-employment generation by diffusion of proven and field-tested technologies through demonstration, training and extension activities. 25

26 Projects aiming to promote use of biotechnological processes and tools for the benefit of women are supported In agriculture and animal husbandry fish farming, poultry farming, pig production, goat farming, value added products, floriculture, hybrid seed production, integrated farming system, Entrepreneurship development, bio-resource utilization, women and child health, hygiene and nutrition. 26

27 Large numbers of Women Self Help Groups benefited. Biotechnology-led-Socio-economic empowerment of Farm Women progamme implemented by IARI, New Delhi, Deen Dayal Institute, Chitrakoot and Participatory Rural Development Foundation (PRDF), Gorakhpur UP- 21 Women Self Help groups were introduced for taking up improved agricultural technology through demonstrations and trainingsintroduction of nutrition garden, new crops and varieties of wheat, rice, berseem, mustard, moong, maize, oat, barley, cotton, different vegetables, fodder crops etc.

28 Rural Biotechnology Innovation and Application Unit (RBTIAU) has been established and working as a single window delivery system for the adopted villages in imparting information on new technologies, improved tools, farm implements etc. The implementation of this project helped in drudgery reduction by using new farm tools demonstrated in the project areas. 28

29 A Breast cancer screening programme supported in four districts of North-East India namely Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura through Cancer Foundation of India, Kolkata in which more than women have been sensitized on breast health. 29

30 Awareness generation and screening for cervical cancer in women was implemented by Government Medical College, Srinagar, Jammu& Kashmir in which more than 2000 women were screened for cervical cancer 30

31 Golden Jubilee Biotech Park for Was set up in the year 2000 to provide opportunities for professionally qualified women to take to a career of remunerative self-employment through the organization of environment friendly biotechnological enterprises Governing Body Women Society Technologies classified into four broad segments: Agriculture, Food, Medical & Environmental Biotechnology 15 Entrepreneurs have been supported with their Units incubated at the park. 31

32 National Women Bioscientists Awards 32

33 Outstanding contributions of women scientists in basic and applied research Areas of biosciences and biotechnology including agricultural, biomedical and environmental sciences with potential for application/product and technology development Inception in the Year 1999 Two categories of awards: (i) Senior Category Life time contribution (ii) Young Category-Outstanding contribution below 45 years of age 54 Awards have been awarded since inception

34 Stimulating Bio-entrepreneurship through Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) a Public Sector Undertaking of DBT

About BIRAC Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) was registered on 20th March,2012 under the Companies Act, 1956 as a Section 25 Not for Profit Company (Now a Section 8 Company

35 About BIRAC Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) was registered on 20th March,2012 under the Companies Act, 1956 as a Section 25 Not for Profit Company (Now a Section 8 Company under the Companies Act, 2013) Vision To Stimulate, foster and enhance the strategic research and innovation capabilities of the Indian biotech industry, particularly start ups and SME s, for creation of affordable products addressing the needs of the largest section of society Mission Facilitate and mentor the generation and translation of innovative ideas into biotech products and services by the industry, promote academia industry collaboration, forge international linkages, encourage techno entrepreneurship and enable creation and sustainability of viable bio enterprises 35

36 BIRAC: fuelling the start up revolution through impactful innovation funding Empowering, Enabling & Accelerating the Innovation Ecosystem Access to Research Resources Bio-incubation Space Mentorship & Capacity Building Thursday, 02 November

37 BIRAC s Programmes Nurturing Innovations SITARE (Students Innovations for advancement of Research Explorations) SRISTI- An initiative by BIRAC and IIM Ahmedabad eyuva (Encouraging Youth for Undertaking Innovative Research through Vibrant Acceleration) University Innovation Clusters (UIC) SIIP (Social Innovation Immersion Fellowship) BIG (Biotechnology Ignition Grant) SPARSH (Social Innovation Programme for Products Affordable & Relevant to Societal Health) IIPME Early and Late Stage Funding Small Business Innovation Research Initiative (SBIRI) Biotechnology Industry Partnership Programme (BIPP) Contract Research Scheme (CRS) BIRAC SEED Fund (Sustaining Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Development) BIRAC BioNEST (BIRAC Bioincubation: Nurturing Entrepreneurs for Scaling up Technology) Mentoring and Capacity Building Programmes BRIC (BIRAC Regional Innovation Centre): BREC (BIRAC Regional Entrepreneurship Development Centre) 37

38 BIRAC s Role Mentori ng 38

39 BIRAC s Impact 20 Bio incubators supported > 100 women entrepreneurs 50% under BIG Thursday, 02 November

40 Affordable Product Development 40

41 Thursday, 02 November

42 Thank You 42

R F D. Results Framework Document for Department of Bio-Technology ( )

R F D. Results Framework Document for Department of Bio-Technology ( ) R F D Results Framework Document for Department of Bio-Technology Vision Section 1: Vision, Mission, Objectives and Functions The vision of the department is to create biotechnology tools and technologies