• 26 July 2011

    Walk-in: Junior Research Fellow Require in National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) - Government Jobs - 8 Openings

    National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) was founded by Sir Robert McCarrison in the year 1918 as ‘Beri-Beri’ Enquiry Unit in a single room laboratory at the Pasteur Institute, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. Within a short span of seven years, this unit blossomed into a "Deficiency Disease Enquiry" and later in 1928, emerged as full-fledged "Nutrition Research Laboratories" (NRL) with Dr. McCarrison as its first Director. It was shifted to Hyderabad in 1958.

  • 7 April 2010
    DBT looks for pharma firms to commercialise cholera vaccine

    Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has started scouting for industrial partner to licence and commercialise a live, oral cholera vaccine (IOCV) strain, with a view to make an affordable vaccine available in domestic and overseas markets.

  • 3 March 2010
    Govt to constitute National Apex Committee for monitoring stem cell research soon

    Almost two years after announcing the Guidelines for Stem Cell Research Regulation, prescribing stringent procedures for souring and use of stem cells by research institutions in the country, the union health ministry is yet to constitute the National Apex Committee (NAC) for effectively reviewing and monitoring the stem cell research in the country.

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