IIIM BioNEST Bio-Incubation Centre under the aegis of CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu alongwith its key ecosystem partner, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), DBT, GoI today organised a one-day Global Bio-India Road Show in which more than 300 students drawn from different colleges of Jammu have participated.A statement said that the whole event was conducted under the patronage of Dr Zabeer Ahmed, Director of CSIR-IIIM Jammu and chairman BioNEST Bioincubation Centre who also presided over the programme. Dr Chhaya Chauhan, Sr. Manager Incubation, BIRAC was a special guest while Dr Shreya Malik Domain Head – Biotech & Cleantech Vertical, SIIC, IIT-Kanpur and Akhileshwar Singh, Chartered Accountant were among the guest speakers for the technical session.

Dr Zabeer Ahmed, Director, CSIR-IIIM, in his presidential address, highlighted the need of innovation nurturing and entrepreneurship development in the UT of Jammu & Kashmir and shared with the audience how CSIR-IIIM is constantly working for the promotion of the startup ecosystem in the region.He said that the institute is doing cutting-edge research to discover newer drugs for Cancer, Diabetes mellitus, Rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer besides running societal mission programmes and also mentioned a few achievements of CSIR-IIIM including purple revolution, phytopharmaceutical drug leads and other technologies produced by the institute.He underscored the significant role of the incubator in creating awareness among the local community in Jammu & Kashmir via its roadshows, hackathons, city camps and similar initiatives. Here is the unique opportunity that CSIR-IIIM has only BioNEST incubator sanctioned by the Department of Biotechnology in the UT of J&K where the innovators and startups can find incubation support right from the lab. to market, he added.

Dr Chhaya Chauhan, Sr. Manager Incubation, BIRAC special guest for the event discussed the major initiatives taken by the BIRAC, Department of Biotechnology by organising Global Bio-India Road Show in all the 75 BioNEST Incubator across the country as the precursor events of the mega show which is going to be held at Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi between 4th-6th December 2023 wherein a large number of startups from pan India will participate including 3000+ delegates, 500+ exhibitors from across the globe to connect the Indian Biotechnology ecosystem with the International ecosystem.