Award of Biotechnology Overseas Associateship for the Scientists working in North Eastern States of India for the year 2015-16 at DBT

Applications are invited from Indian Nationals working in any of the North-Eastern States of India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura) for the award of Biotechnology Overseas Associateship (2015- 2016) under the special programme for the North Eastern States for conducting research or training in overseas research laboratories in different areas of biotechnology such as:

i. Agriculture and Plant Biotechnology
ii. Medical Biotechnology and Healthcare
iii. Animal and Veterinary Biotechnology
iv. Marine Biotechnology and Aquaculture
v. Bioenergy
vi. Food, Feed and Nutrition
vii. Environmental Biotechnology
viii. Industrial Biotechnology and Biochemical engineering
ix. Bioengineering and Biodesign
x. Stem Cell Research
xi. Basic Research in Modern Biology
xii. Nano-biotechnology
xiii. Bioinformatics and ICT-enabled Biotechnology
xiv. Intellectual Property and Patent Law
xv. Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology
xvi. Biomaterials
xvii. Bioelectronics

Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree in the areas of life sciences including biotechnology or M.D. in medicine/M.Pharm/M.V.Sc/ M.Tech with 3 years research experience. Applicants should hold regular/ permanent positions in Government recognized research and academic institutions / universities located in any of the North Eastern States working continuously for the last two years and should be actively engaged in biotechnology or related R&D work. Applications from persons working on temporary positions (e.g. Research fellows or associates etc.) will not be considered. Preference will be given to the candidates who are perma¬nent residents of any of the North Eastern States. For more details please visit http://www.btisnet.gov.in/ner/neof.htm

Applications should be submitted through proper channel (only one hard copy) as per the format available in the above mentioned website link to
Dr. T. Madhan Mohan, Adviser
Department of Biotechnology, Block-2, 7^th Floor
CGO Complex, Lodi Road, New Delhi-110 003

A soft copy of the duly filled application compiled in one file (MS Word) is also required to be sent to email: nerbpmc@dbt.nic.in