Placement for Regional Centre For Biotechnology (RCB, Gurgaon)
Career Opportunities in Interdisciplinary Areas of Biotechnology
- The Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), a newly created institution in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi, would like to recruit scientists with potential for intellectual leadership and passion for both research and teaching in cutting-edge areas of biotechnology. A demonstrated record of scientific productivity in a wide range of areas including life science, biomedical science, engineering, physical & chemical sciences and material science, in the form of recent peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals of high international repute and/or internationally valid and productive patents is essential, as is some indication of independence in scientific thinking, and a minimum of three years of post-doctoral experience.
- The RCB, an institution of excellence established under an agreement with UNESCO for providing opportunities to Indian and other Asian students and scholars, is one of the two major institutions being set up within a Health Biotech Science Cluster (HBSC). The HBSC is being developed by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, on a 200-acre site located within the NCR in Faridabad, and is intended to foster innovative conceptual research in a wide range of biotech-related sciences, with an initial focus on health biotechnology. The other sister institution in the cluster is the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI). HBSC and the institutions therein will also include mission centres dedicated to vaccines, diagnostics and imaging, molecular medicine, platform technologies, informatics, experimental animal facilities, technology transfer & intellectual property services and clinical trial services. These strongly complementary institutions/centres will have seamless scientific collaborations and are being developed under the mentorship of major national and international research centres.
- The primary focus of the RCB will be to provide world-class research, training and education in biotech sciences at the interface of multiple disciplines. The educational programmes of RCB will be designed to create innovative opportunities to engage in research and learn to integrate science, engineering and medicine to provide major breakthroughs of relevance to India and the region. Specialized domain-specific programmes will also be designed by the faculty of RCB and THSTI in new opportunity areas of discovery science and technological innovations such as (but not restricted to) drug discovery and systems biology, cell & tissue engineering, nano science and technology, and synergy of information technology and advanced biomaterials, in order to create highly specialized people who delve across disciplines.
Workshops
As part of its mandate, RCB conducts advanced workshops on several aspects of biotechnology and biomedicine. These workshops, typically a week-long, offer a combination of theoretical knowledge and hands-on experimental time in the appropriate area from experts in the field, drawn from both within and outside the faculty of RCB. In addition, distinguished expert faculty who have utilized the relevant technologies in their research deliver lectures, which emphasize the practical utility of the methods/ technologies being discussed have had in their own research careers. The workshops are typically targeted towards graduate (PhD) students and higher levels. Participants benefit from these workshops by broadening their horizons, getting exposure to new ways of addressing questions and exploiting the new technologies and approaches towards making vital advances in biology, biotechnology and biomedicine.
Gurugram, Haryana
Colleges
2006
AICTE
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