Applications invited for AIC-CCMB’s acceleration program

Hyderabad: City-based Atal Incubation Centre (AIC)-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has invited applications from entrepreneurs and innovators with promising technologies to join its Covid-19 Technology Deployment (CoviTeD) Acceleration Program.

A CSR initiative of Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL), the CoviTeD program aims to provide high-impact mentoring, financial, regulatory and marketing support to take these products and technologies to market.

The focus areas will be medical devices for the management of covid-19 patients, quantifiable tests for ancillary markers of Covid-19, rapid diagnostics, drugs and therapeutics, sterilization and hygiene and logistics for biological.

The winners of the CoviTeD program will get seed fund/ award of Rs 15 lakh while the runner-up gets seed fund/ award of Rs 10 lakh. The winners will also have access to validation and analytical services at CCMB. The last date for applying for the Covid-19 Technology Deployment (CovTeD) program, which has duration of 16 months, is January 31.For more details visit https://aic.ccmb.res.in/covited/