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DG CSIR lauds efforts of Hyderabad institutes in tackling Covid

By Telangana Today

Published: Published Date - 08:49 PM, Thu - 29 July 21

No one group or individual can take credit for CSIR’s contributions in fighting Covid-19 and the entire credit goes to CSIR as an organisation, said Dr Shekhar C Mande, DG CSIR No one group or individual can take credit for CSIR’s contributions in fighting Covid-19 and the entire credit goes to CSIR as an organisation, said Dr Shekhar C Mande, DG CSIR

Hyderabad: Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dr Shekhar C Mande, on Thursday, praised CSIR institutes in Hyderabad for their scientific contributions during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The DG who visited the three CSIR institutes in Hyderabad – National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) – interacted with staff and students of the institutions.

Addressing them, Dr Mande said the contributions of the research institutes in Hyderabad during the pandemic have been diverse. “The CSIR institutions played a big role in setting up Covid-19 surveillance strategies, affordable diagnostics, drugs and therapeutics development, hospital-assistive device development, and building supply chain and logistics,” he said.

He praised IICT for its contributions in developing an adjuvant for Covaxin, making it a totally indigenously built effective vaccine. “No one group or individual can take credit for CSIR’s contributions in fighting Covid-19 and the entire credit goes to CSIR as an organisation”, he said.

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