Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), a premier life science research organisation under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has forged an alliance with Blockchain For Impact (BFI) under the BFI-Biome Virtual Network Program to accelerate biomedical research and innovation in the country.
Under this program, BFI will allocate over US$ 600,000 during the course of three years and leverage the state-of-the-art facilities and expertise at CCMB to support interdisciplinary and collaborative translational research projects in the field of biomedical science and innovation.
BFI-Biome Virtual Network Program is a pioneer initiative bringing together research institutes and incubators under one umbrella to foster stakeholder collaborations. The launch event was held here in the presence of CSIR-CCMB director Vinay Nandicoori, senior scientist Manjula Reddy from the institute and representatives from BFI including CEO Gaurav Singh, Program Director Pooja Agrawal and senior advisor Satya Prakash Dash, said an official release on Wednesday.