DG CSIR lauds efforts of Hyderabad institutes in tackling Covid

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.

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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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