Deadline: 31-Mar-22
The Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) has announced the special call for proposals to nurture the Biotech Innovation Ecosystem, support Start-ups and SME’s for innovation research and promote affordable product development through public-private partnership.
Focus Areas
Proposals are invited under following areas:
- Healthcare– Devices and Diagnostics
- Solutions to tackle mental health problems
- Digital Health and Telemedicine solutions using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools
- Innovative Technologies for diagnosis and management of respiratory illness including post-COVID pulmonary rehabilitation
- Devices to strengthen Anganwadi workers
- Import Substitution
- Healthcare- Drugs including Drug Delivery and Biopharmaceuticals, Biosimilars and Regenerative Medicine, Vaccines and Clinical Trials
- Energy, Environment & Secondary Agriculture
- Agriculture (including veterinary sciences and aquaculture)
- Agriculture
- Veterinary Sciences
- Aquaculture
Eligibility Criteria
The proposals can be submitted under SBIRI scheme of BIRAC
- Eligibility for SBIRI
- Solely by a Company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013 or
- Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) incorporated under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 or
- Joint Ventures either in the form of Company/ LLP by any of the entities jointly with other private or public partner(s) (Universities or Institutes).
- Eligibility criteria for industry
- Minimum 51% of the shares of the Company should be held by Indian Citizens holding Indian passport (Indian Citizens do not include Person of Indian Origin (PIO) and Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) holders)
- Minimum half of the persons who subscribed their names to the LLP document as its Partners should be Indian citizens.
- Participating companies should have adequate in-house facility to address the project implementation aspects (which shall be evaluated during the site visit) OR Incubated with any of the recognized Incubation Facility.
- Eligibility criteria for academic collaborator
- Public/private university/colleges in India
- National research laboratories
- Not-for-profit private research labs/societies/foundation
Ineligibility
- Applicant who had withdrawn their proposal after approval from Apex committee or whose project was foreclosed due to inadequate funds or any other irregularity would be debarred from submitting fresh proposals for next 3 calls (1 year) unless the withdrawal was due to papers not being ready.
- Proposals submitted in collaboration with companies defaulting on repayment of loan or are irregular with regard to repayment of instalments to BIRAC would be considered ineligible
For more information, visit https://birac.nic.in/cfp_view.php?id=49&scheme_type=2