Contract Research Scheme
Funds company partners validating academic biotechnology prototypes through BIRAC contract research grants.
BIRAC administers the Contract Research Scheme as a grant component under PACE, the Promoting Academic Research Conversion to Enterprise scheme. CRS is designed to validate academic research with commercialization potential by engaging contract research and manufacturing industry partners.
Academia must be the primary applicant, with one or more partners, including at least one company with a DSIR-recognized in-house R&D unit. The source states that grant funding is provided to both academic and industrial partners, and that funds are provided to the industrial partner for validation.
The captured source does not state a deadline or funding ceiling. It describes the opportunity as a scheme page rather than a dated call, so this row is between cycles until a current PACE/CRS call window is posted.
Validation of academic proof-of-concept biotechnology processes or prototypes by industrial partners with DSIR-recognized in-house R&D units.
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