Bilateral Cooperations
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, has partnered with different agencies in USA. Programmes executed under the collaboration are Vaccine development programme; contraceptive research and reproductive health; agriculture biotechnology and vision research with the National Institute of Health, USA Biodesign programme with Stanford University. The Khorana Programme for Scholars and the Technology Transfer Course: DBT initiated the programme in alliance with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF). Some other major areas of collaboration are Programme on vision research, bilateral brain research collaborative programme, DBT-NIH fellowship programme and programme on low cost diagnostics.