CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine

• Vision: To become recognized Centre of Excellence for Industrial microbiology research
• Mission: Helping Indian industries for scale up of processes and building confidence in Indian industry through transferring technology and training on microbial fermentation processes

• Isolation, characterization & identification of microbes for repository of psychrotrophic, mesophilic and thermo-tolerant microorganism including bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi and endophytes,
• Screening for specific microbial enzymes and secondary metabolites, enantio/ regio-specific biotransformations
• Indigenous novel expression system for heterologous protein production, Hyperexpression and protein engineering
• Strain development for production of bioactive molecules and novel enzymes using traditional and molecular tools (genomics and proteomics)
• Multi-functional fermentation scale up facility from lab scale to 500L capacity with compatible downstream processing
• Technology development for agricultural crop yield increase by biofertilizers, biocontrol agents and micronutrients.

• Well equipped Microbiology laboratory to carryout cutting edge research on isolation and characterization of microorganisms and their bioactive metabolites
• State of Art Micro-processor controlled fermentation facility upto 500L scale with supporting down-stream processing facilities for bacterial, fungal and yeast based products.
• State-of–art equipments required for Microbiology, Enzymology and Bio-process development
• State-of-the-art facility to undertake nucleic acid amplification, biomarker development, gene cloning, heterologous gene expression
• Metabolic pathway engineering for production of novel/ desired metabolites

MLP1008: Bioprospecting microbial species from unexplored ecological niches for novel molecules and enzymes (MLP-1008)

Development of Zinc gluconate-Vitamin C formulation for immunity improvement and management of Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) (MLP-110004)

Deciphering the mechanism(s)of host-entophytes’ coevolution, enhanced secondary metabolite production and crop productivity (MLP-0048)

CSIR-Aroma mission (HCP-0007)

An essential oil based formulation/ product for Post harvest storage of fruits (MLP110005)

Nucleoside as biofilm inhibitors of bacteria and to understand the underlying mechanism of action

Induction of secondary metabolites in microbes via co-cultivation based elicitation (GAP-2175)

Development and validation of fermentation based immunomodulatory AYUSH kwath formulation (GAP-3105)

Fermentation based process development for the production of tacrolimus drug (GAP-2187)

Development of nutraceutical products from algae (CLP-0309)

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