Director General, CSIR Emphasise on Working for the Society

On the occasion of National Technology Day-2016, Dr. Girish Sahni, Director General,CSIR addressed all 38 labs of CSIR through video conferencing. He urged every member of the CSIR family to join hands together and work for the society. He also emphasized to devolve the technologies for solving the problems of common man and Industry.

Dr Madhu Dikshit, Director, CSIR-CDRI also motivated and inspired the CDRI Staff to work together for delivering the technologies on this occasion.

She also put focus on how Cdri is working with a vision to strengthen and advance the field of drug research and development in the country.

So far, more than 10,000 research articles have been published by the Institute in peer reviewed journals. Obtained more than 350 Indian patents and 90 international patents; and produced more than 1000 Ph.D's. Several of its Alumni have occupied highest positions in national and international academic institutions, biotech and pharma industries.

The Institute has made significant accomplishments in the pursuit of its mission to New Drugs & Technologies for affordable healthcare for all, generation of knowledge base and nurturing future leaders for healthcare sector. Today, it has become a unique model for modernized drug research in India – having everything under one roof, from synthesis, screening, development studies, process up-scaling to clinical studies.

Source: Rahul Pandey, City Journalist - Lucknow, CollegeDekho