Funding and Grants
The institute and its faculty have been successful in obtaining substantial extra-mural funding, demonstrating the quality of research carried out at IBAB. Funding has been obtained from a range of sources such as national funding agencies, philanthropic agencies from within the country and abroad, and the Government of Karnataka.
Grants to the institute from the Government of India (GoI)
Aside from research grants to individual faculty, the institute has received large grants for its research and educational programmes from various departments of GoI. These have come from the Department of Biotechnology (‘B-Life’ Programme), the Department of Electronics and IT (‘Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics Training and Research’programme) and the Department of Science and Technology (‘FIST’ programme).
Research grants
Faculty have received research grants from the following agencies within India:
- Council of Science and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
- Department of Electronics and Information technology (DeitY)
- Department of Science and Technology (DST)
They have also received research grants from the following foreign sources:
- Wadhwani Foundation (USA)
- A large university in the US
- Institut Merieux (France)
Donations
IBAB has received generous contributions from a range of companies, foundations or individual philanthropists, as follows:
| Donor (individual or organization) | Nature of support | |
| 1. | Accelrys | Accelrys Awards for students excelling in structural biology |
| 2. | IBAB alumni | Student scholarships |
| 3. | Anonymous philanthropist | The Nabinita Ghosh Scholarship |
| 4. | Anonymous philanthropist | Student fellowship |
| 5. | The AstraZeneca Research Foundation of India | Faculty chair and visiting Fellowships in Chemoinformatics |
| AZRFI was one of the first major foundations to provide a corpus donation to IBAB. This corpus has supported workshops, training and research in chemoinformatics. | ||
| 6. | The AstraZeneca Research Foundation of India | Student scholarships |
| 7. | Biocon Foundation | The Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Lecture Series |
| The KMS Lecture Series brings the most innovative scientists to IBAB and the Bangalore scientific community. Past speakers have been Prof. Venki Ramakrishnan (Nobel Laureate), Prof. Dinshaw Patel (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Prof. Ram Sasisekharan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Prof. Sangeeta Bhatia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Prof. Arul Chinnaiyan (University of Michigan), Prof. Ashok Venkitaraman (University of Cambridge) and Prof. Vamsi Mootha (Harvard University). | ||
| 8. | Biocon Foundation | Faculty Chair |
| Biocon Foundation has been supporting a Faculty Chair at IBAB for several years. Over the years, this Chair has enabled several faculty to strengthen their research programmes and provide quality education and training to students. Dr. H S Subramanya, Director of IBAB, is the current occupant of this chair. | ||
| 9. | Biocon Foundation | Student scholarship |
| 10. | DeNovo Biolabs Pvt. Ltd. | Student support |
| 11. | The Dr. C M Gupta family | The Dr. C M Gupta Scholarships for Scientific Excellence |
| 12 | ICICI Bank | Student scholarships |
| 13. | The Infosys Foundation | Infosys Chair |
| The Infosys Foundation has endowed the Infosys Chair at IBAB. Dr. C M Gupta, former Director of CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute and CSIR – Institute of Microbial Technology, is the first occupant of this Chair. | ||
| 14. | The Infosys Foundation | Murty’s Medal of Excellence for Best All-round Performance’ and ‘Murty’s Medal of Excellence for Best Student’ |
| 15. | Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw | The Mazumdar-Shaw Chair in Computational Biology |
| Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has endowed the Mazumdar-Shaw Chair in Computational Biology at IBAB to support advanced research and teaching in this area. Prof. Yathindra, former Director of IBAB, is the first occupant of this chair. | ||
| 16. | Millipore India Pvt. Ltd. | Millipore Awards for the two best women students |
| 17 | MSD Pharmaceuticals (Merck) | Faculty chair and student scholarships |
| 18. | Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd. | Incubation activities and student scholarship |
| 19. | Mr. Venkat Rajagopal | Best Student awards in computer programming |
| 20. | Dr. J Ramachandran | Student scholarships |
| 21. | Shireen Vali and Taher Abbasi | Student scholarship |
| 22. | Sartorius India Pvt. Ltd. | Best Student awards |
| 23. | Strand Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. | Best Student awards |
Give for the Future
The world has become knowledge-centric, where much of its activities are driven by the generation of new knowledge and its application. Scientific research is a key part of knowledge-generation, and education and the development of manpower is vital for knowledge dissemination. A donation to IBAB is a donation for building an internationally recognized institute in the areas of biotechnology and bioinformatics. Our donors help us grow this novel institute, with an agenda of educating young people through modern curricula and pedagogies; and creating new innovations, jobs, and economic growth.
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