ICMR

Merck, ICMR to conduct joint trials on cervical cancer vaccine

Merck & Co, known as MSD India, has entered into a collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to conduct studies on the former's investigational cervical cancer drug, Gardasil.// This is the first public-private partnership in vaccine development in India. Under the agreeme...

Promotion Of Medical Research In India Is The Need Of The Hour: ICMR

ICMR is a premier research institution involved with the promotion and co-coordination of research in various disciplines. In an attempt to strengthen research potential in the country and encourage young minds to work, //it has been proposed to offer stronger and attractive incentives to Scientist...

Glenmark Brings to the Notice of the Authorities Irregularities of the Clinical Investigator at its Jamnagar Site in Gujarat

...ll clinical trials in accordance with the internationally recognised ethical principals laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki, and the local Indian icmr Ethical Guidelines. ...

Clinical Trials Registry Launched in India

... will be among the few select countries like Australia, UK and the US that are making researchers accountable through public disclosure," N K Ganguly, icmr Director-General said. There has been a slow but steady rise in clinical trials being conducted in India, making our country a preferred clinical tria...

Prof Samir K Brahmachari, Dr MRS Rao Jointly Win Bio-medical Research Award

...g various biological processes in both normal and diseased conditions. The biennial Ambedkar Centenary Award was instituted in 1991-92 by the icmr as part of the birth centenary celebrations of Dr B R Ambedkar. ...

Stem Cell Research Lab Coming Up in Jaipur

... to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). icmr has already approved the first phase of the project. The research projects sent to icmr cover spinal cord injury, cancer, plastic surgery,...clerosis. Revised projects would be taken by icmr in its next meeting scheduled in the third week of...

Children of Bhopal Gas Victims Suffer from Deformity

...ematurely ended within 10 years just as conclusive evidence of damage was beginning to show on the offspring of survivors. "Most studies done by icmr were terminated as early as 1989 and the rest by 1994 without reviewing the collected data and pleas for continuing the studies were ignored. The ICMR...

ICMR To Develop Drugs From Medicinal Plants

...oU that is valid for next five years was signed by icmr Director General N K Ganguly and NIF Executive Vic...e President Anil K Gupta. As per the MoU, the icmr will work towards validating the safety and effici...dge-rich, economically poor indigenous people," an icmr release said. The...

India Crowned As the Diabetic Capital

...s found to suffer with the largest population of people with diabetes in the world. It prevalence has increased from 3% to 12% from 1970 to 2000. icmr has estimated that about 10% of the diabetics are in the juvenile age group. Hence to stem the spread of this diabetes the government has stakes v...

ICMR to Set up Laboratories to Combat Bird Flu

... The Director General of The Indian Council of Medical Research has announced the installation of three US-funded bio-safety level laboratories by icmr in Chennai// , New Delhi, Kolkata and Pune to efficiently combat any avian flu outbreak An international consultancy firm will be in charge of se...

ICMR in Biological News

New male contraceptive clears hurdle

... R. S. Sharma, deputy director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), concurs that the safety results were "very satisfactory." The icmr is working to arrange study sites throughout India, beginning with Jaipur, Ludhiana, Udhampur, and India's capital New Delhi. Three data monitoring co...