Opportunity for Pharma candidates to work in CSIR Health Cohort Knowledge base at IMTech

Established in 1984, the Institute of Microbial Technology is one among the chain of 37 national laboratories, 6 units and 39 outreach centres of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Set-up to be a fore-runner in the niche domain of microbial biotechnology, the Institute in its initial years functioned from a start-up laboratory that provided a truly world-class R&D ambience in an area of over 10,000 sq. ft. to its researchers.

Applications are invited online for filling up of position on a purely temporary basis, in the prescribed proforma. The details of the Sponsored Project under which engagement is proposed to be made is as under.

Post : Project Associate-I

Title of Project : "Phenome India-CSIR Health Cohort Knowledgebase
Name of Sponsoring Agency : CSIR
Project Code : HCP47
No. of Position : 03

Minimum prescribed educational Qualifications :
Masters/ Integrated Masters in Natural or Agricultural or Pharmaceutical Sciences/ MVSc/ Animal Sciences or equivalent.
OR Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Technology or Medicine from a recognized University or equivalent.

Desirable Qualification / experience, if any :
Post Code 01 & 02 :- MSc. Microbiology/Life Sciences with experience in handling microbes, identification, characterization and preservation. Knowledge and exposure to molecular biology techniques i.e. DNA isolation, PCR and sampling etc will be an asset. Post Code 03 :- Experience in metagenomics and programming in R or Python.

Age Limit* : 35
/ Relaxation in the age limit for the candidates belonging to the category of SC/ ST/ PwBD/ Women and the category of OBC shall be 05 years and 03 years respectively.

Consolidated emoluments per month : Rs.31,000/- +HRA for those candidates who have qualified CSIR-UGC/ICAR/ICMR NET incl. lectureship/ assistant professorship or GATE OR those who have qualified National level examinations conducted by Central Government Departments like DBT/DST or equivalent and/or their Agencies/Institutions.

Note
1. Result awaited candidates are not eligible to apply.
2. In case of any dispute, the English version will prevail.

Last Date : 22-10-2026