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Department of Biotechnology programmes for women scientists

Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology along with its Public Sector Units and Autonomous Institutes has initiated several programmes to bring more women into science to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 5).

Biotechnology Career Advancement and Re-orientation Program (BioCARe)

In an attempt to enhance the participation of Women Scientists in Biotechnology Research, the Department of Biotechnology launched a Biotechnology Career Advancement and Re-orientation Program (BioCARe) for women scientists in January, 2011. The program is mainly for Career Development of employed/ unemployed women Scientists  for whom it is the first extramural research grant.

The scheme is open for all areas of Life Sciences (including agriculture, veterinary science and medicine). Women Scientists who are employed or unemployed or are desirous of coming back after a break can get back to the main stream by getting their first grant as the Principal Investigator. 

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Janaki Ammal-National Women Bioscientist Award

Janaki Ammal-National Women Bioscientist Award is beingimplemented by the Department  to recognize outstanding research contributions of women scientists in basic and applied research in the areas of Biosciences and Biotechnology including agricultural, biomedical and environmental sciences with potential for application/product and technology development.

The reward under senior category isone-time monitory award of Rs.5.00 lakhs.

The women scientists who are below 45 years of age and have made significant research contributions in Biotechnology/Biological Sciences are awarded under young category with a minor research grant of Rs.5.00 lakh/year to pursue their ongoing research activities for a period of five years in addition to Award money of Rs.1.00 lakh (one time). Presently Department has provision to give one award under Senior category and two awards under Young category. 

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BIRAC-TiEWInER (Women In Entrepreneurial Research) Award

BIRAC has a dedicated award to promote and recognize woman entrepreneurs in Biotech sector. This award is in partnership with TiE-Delhi NCR.

Under this national annual award program, 15 women entrepreneurs working on ideas that impact large sections of the society are awarded INR 5 lakhs each along with mentoring, handholding, an opportunity to participate in an intensive accelerator programme.

After the accelerator program, the 15 contestants compete through Business Pitching for the award of INR 25 lakhs each to 3 final winners.

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Bioincubators for women professionals

BIRAC has also supported two Bioincubators, which provides incubation space and mentoring (business, IP, legal) specifically to women students / scientists /entrepreneurs.

These include Golden Jubilee Biotech Park, Chennai and Sri Padmavati MahilaVisvavidyalayam, Tirupati.

Last Modified : 9/11/2023



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