Calcutta varsity ties up with KPC Group
The 150-year-old University of Calcutta has tied up with KPC Group-affiliated Strategic Global Management (India) Pvt Ltd to set up eastern region's first biotech park.
By PTI |
KOLKATA: The 150-year-old University of Calcutta has tied up with KPC Group-affiliated Strategic Global Management (India) Pvt Ltd to set up eastern region's first biotech park.
"This park, to come up on 30 acres at our property in Baruipur, is certainly the first of its kind being set up with an alliance between an university of great heritage and an industry of global repute," University's vice-chancellor Asis Kumar Banerjee told reporters here.
The university signed an agreement on August 19 with Strategic Global Management (India) Pvt Ltd, affiliated to the US-based 'KPC Group,' for setting up the park, he said.
The facility, to be called 'Kolkata Biotech Park' was being set up with the prime goal to promote better industry- university interaction and globally competitive industrial research centres in biotechnology, Banerjee said.
"Our goal is to give the Kolkata Biotech Park a global image by ensuring adequate national and international representation from leading players and promoting R&D activities in keeping with international and national demands," the vice-chancellor said.
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The park's professional environment and quality of service would match global standards and efforts would be made to attract more research concerns to the facility, he said."We have already received enquiries about the park from a number of internationally-renowned companies," he said.
Banerjee said the park would promote areas of bio-technology such as bio-informatics, chemo-informatics, bio-imaging, nano-bioscience, proteomics, pharmaceutical science, agri-biotechnology, life science, molecular biology, molecular and other related areas.
Initially, the focus would be on setting up a Molecular Medicine Research Institute (MMRI).
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Besides, a bioimaging centre for advanced diagnosis of diseases, a food processing and preservation technology development centre would be set up.The park would invite biotech and pharmaceutical firms to set up Research and Development faculties there and would aid them in identifying and recruiting advisors, consultants and collaborators from the Univeristy of Calcutta or its affiliated research institutes.
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