Editorial
•  Indian Biotech Blooms Forth

Indian Biotech Sector: Taking Stock
•  Overview of the Indian Biotech Sector
•  Legal Environment

1. Regulatory Framework
2. New Task Force
3. Intellectual Property Aspects

1. Industry Development Financing
2. Fiscal Incentives (Union Budget 2002-3)

1. Andhra Pradesh: The Hyderabad BioClusters
2. Karnataka: The Bangalore BioCluster
3. Maharashatra: The Pune BioCluster

•  Public Research & Infrastructure Development

1. Roles of Publicly Funded R&D Laboratories
   •  Research Centers of DBT
   •  Indian Genome Initiative
   •  Supercomputing & Bioinformatics
   •  Research Centers of the Council of Science & Industrial Research (CSIR)
   •  Research Centers of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
   •  Research Centers of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)

2. R&D Centers Involved in Biotech Research
   •  Center for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB)
   •  Center for DNA Fingerprinting & Diagnostics (CDFD)
   •  Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI)
   •  Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI)
   •  Central Institute of Aromatic & Medicinal Plants (CIMAP)
   •  Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI)
   •  Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
   •  Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (IGIB)
   •  Industrial Toxicology Research Center
   •  National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR)
   •  National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI)
   •  National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS)
   •  National Center for Cell Sciences (NCCS)
   •  National Institute of Immunology (NII)

Indian Biotech Sector: Achievements & Successes
•  Stem Cell Research in India - A Growing Clinical Opportunity
•  Indian Biotech: Reaching Across the Boundaries
•  Ethnic Populations and the New Paradigm for Dissection of A Complex Disease
•  Biotech as An India-Pakistan Peace Initiative

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