India & France to Set up A Joint Research Laboratory on Sustainable Chemistry.

CSIR & the French National Science Research Institute, CNRS, have entered into an agreement for the creation of Joint Research laboratory on sustainable chemistry at Interfaces. The CSIR-CNRS Memorandum was signed today in New Delhi by Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari, Director General, CSIR and Ms.Catherine Brechignac, President CNRS in the presence of Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Mr. Kapil Sibal and French Minister for Higher Education & Research Mrs. Valerie Pecresse.

This would be a milestone of Indo-French Partnership in the field of Science & Technology, which has a long history & tradition.

The Joint Research Laboratory will focus its research partnership in the areas of Green Chemistry targeting therapeutic agents for cancer and neuro disorders Protein interactions for targeting alternative drugs/ biological systems .

Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) at Hyderabad, one of the CSIR laboratories will be implementing the programme in partnership with CNRS laboratory for Molecular Chemistry on Molecular Photonics and University of Rennes in France.

Source : Press Information Bureau
Date : January 25, 2008