Pioneering BiotechnologyCommercialisation

Since 1990

BA UNIQUE CONSORTIUM

A consortium of government in advisory role, developmental banks as major funding agency and token participation of cor-porate sector to provide impetus to biotech commercialization.

Idea conceived by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India with the objective of commercializing institutional research, establishing one to one tie ups with industry, taking up of specific projects and initiating product develop-ment and process improvements in the field of biotechnology and related areas.

Inaugurated in a launching event organized by DBT in association of Industrial Development Bank of India Chandra Shekhar in the presence of Finance Minister Shri Yashwant Sinha on December 20, 1990.

Inauguration of BCIL by the then Prime Minister, Hon'ble Shri Chandra Shekhar on December 20, 1990

Address by the then Hon'ble Finance MinisterShri Yaswant Sinha to the distinguishedinaugural gathering.

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• Composition of Board strategically planned to ensure participation of government, financial institutions, industry and experts.

vSecretary, Department of Biotechnology or nominee.vOfficials nominated by All India Financial Institutions.vDG, CSIR or nominee.vDG, ICAR or nominee.vPersons from industry or other relevant areas.vIndependent experts

• The Managing Director is assisted by officers having expertise in various areas of biotechnology, finance and administration.

• Majority shares (more than 85%) owned by public sector financial institutions and remaining by corporate sector

AND MANAGEMENTRGANIZATION STRUCTURE

OPERATIONSREAS OF

• Actively involved in range of activities viz. technology transfer, project consultancy, fund syndication, information dissemination, manpower training and placement related to biotechnology since inception.

• Assisted hundreds of clients including scientists, technologists, research institutions, universities, first generation entrepreneurs, corporate sector, national and international organizations, central government, various state governments, banks and financial institutions.

• Made a strong contribution towards promotion of biotechnology in the country particularly commercialization aspects by providing valuable services to the Central and State Governments, academic and research institutions, industry etc.

• Expected to be self supporting organization within a reasonable time frame of initiating its operations

• Operating since last 25 years and successfully sustained itself by generating revenues from its operations

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K BCILEY STRENGTHS OF

Emerged as a unique and specialized agency for providing consultancy and management services in view of its key strengths viz.

Exceptional technical capability

• Networking with various stakeholders across the country

• Financial management skills

• Expertise in information technology

• Credible investors

• High credibility and confidence

Independent and self supporting organization providing specialized services

BCIL is strategically placed for implementing projects in biotechnology in view its unique strengths, and having assisted hundreds of clients including scientists, technologists, research institutions, universities, first generation entrepreneurs, corporate sector, national and international organizations, and financial institutions.

• Developed linkages with leading biotechnology institutions and industry across the country

• Assisting institutions in technology evaluation, valuation,packaging and transfer

• Assessing commercial potential of lab scale technologies

• Successfully transferred 45 technologies from 30 institutions to entrepreneurs, start ups and industry

• Technologies include therapeutics, vaccines, diagnostics, biopesticides, biofertilizers, plant tissue culture, medical devices etc.

• BCIL received the 'Special National Award for Technology Transfer and Commercialisation in Biotechnology' instituted by DBT in the 1st year of its inception

K TECHNOLOGY TRANSFEREY ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Professional expertise in strategic management of intellectualproperty in the area of biotechnology and life sciences

• Assisting several universities, institutions and industry in integrated management of IP on a regular basis

• Completed more than 500 assignments of IP analytics, draftingand filing of patents etc.

• Facilitating capacity building in IP issues through organizing technical trainings, and workshops

• Recognized as the first IP Facilitation Centre of Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)

K IP MANAGEMENTEY ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Conducted sectoral studies in the area of biosensors, recombinant DNA products, transgenic animals, molecular diagnostics, vaccines for planning technology development, and enhancing investments.

• Prepared business plans and techno economic feasibility reports for setting up new biotech ventures

• Assessment of current market and future potential for biotech products undertaken for public and private sector.

K CONSULTANCYEY ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Prepared detailed project reports for setting up of specialized facilities viz. Biopharma Incubators, Translational Institutes, Centres of Excellence etc.

• Successfully providing project management services from concept to implementation ensuring timely deliverables

• Implemented public private partnership schemes of DBT for funding innovation in biotech industry for more than seven years

• Managing National Certificate System for Tissue Culture Plants for DBT since 2006.

• Providing specialized services for IP management and transfer of technologies in 'School of International Biodesign (SIB)', a DBT programme involving multiple national and international institutions for development of affordable medical devices since 2009

• Implementation, mentoring and monitoring of innovative programmes in North Eastern Region (NER) through management of dedicated cell for DBT since 2010

• Coordinated projects in the area of biodiversity, biosafety, organic farming for various ministries

K PROJECT MANAGEMENTEY ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Actively engaged in biosafety issues related to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), since 1998

• Undertake capacity building activities including public outreach, technical trainings, workshops, policy dialogues, conferences to create biosafety awareness. More than 250 events organized at international, regional, national, state, district and institutional levels.

• Prepared the proposed plan for establishment of Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India.

• Associated with Biosafety Capacity Building programmes in SAARC countries such as Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

• In country partner for South Asia Biosafety Programme (SABP) active in India and Bangladesh since 2005.

K REGULATORY SERVICESEY ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Proactively engaged in providing advisory to state governments/developmental agencies for setting up of Biotechnology Parks and Incubators for nurturing biotechnology start ups

• Till dated BCIL has prepared 22 feasibility reports for setting up of Biotechnology Parks and Incubators

• BCIL is also assisting state governments in developing industry friendly Biotech Policy.

K BIOTECH PARKSEY ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Implementing industrial training programmes in biotechnology for DBT since 20 years for skill development as per industry requirements for post graduate students.

• Special component initiated for encouraging students of North Eastern Region (NER)

• Programme replicated for bioinformatics since last 10 years

• Every year more than 700 students are trained for six months in150-200 biotech companies

• More than 5,000 students trained since initiation of the programme.

• Conducted analytical studies for strengthening quality ofbiotechnology teaching programme in universities for DBT

• Organizing entrepreneurship development programmes (EDPs)for catalysing setting up of biotech start ups.

• In the previous year, five biotech enterprises set up by EDP participants

K HUMAN RESOURCEDEVELOPMENT

EY ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Serving as the Distributed Information Sub-Centre of DBT dedicated to commercially relevant information and databases for more than 20 years

• Bringing out periodicals for providing information on technology leads and innovative developments

• Biotech Club of BCIL has members from industry, research institutions, universities and individual experts

• Technical workshops, awareness building programmes and training of trainers regularly organized in on wide ranging of topics i.e. bio entrepreneurship, grant writing, IP management, regulatory issues etc.

• A workshop on key issues in commercialization of biotechnology organized annually since more than 20 years

K INFORMATION SERVICESEY ACHIEVEMENTS:

AND THE JOURNEY CONTINUES...

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Ministries/central Government Departments

• Department of Biotechnology, GOI

• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, GOI

• Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change

• Ministry of Agriculture

• Ministry of External Affairs

• Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises,

• Department of Science and Technology, GOI

• Agricultural and processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), GOI

• Ministry of Food Processing Industries, GOI

• Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council, New Delhi

State Governments/departments

• Andhra Pradesh

• Assam

• Chhattisgarh

• Goa

• Haryana

• Jammu and Kashmir

• Kerala

• Madhya Pradesh

• Manipur

• Pondicherry

• Punjab

• Sikkim

• Tamil Nadu

• Odisha

• Uttar Pradesh

• West Bengal

Research Institutions/universities:

• Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore

• Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Mumbai

• National Institute of Virology, Pune

• Regional Research Laboratory, Jammu

• India Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata

• Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras

• National Institute of Immunology, Delhi

• National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Mumbai

• National Institute of Pathology, Delhi

• Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore

• University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi

• National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow

• Graphic Era University, Dehradun

Financial Institutions

• Industrial Development Bank of India

• Export Import Bank of India, Mumbai

• Small Industries Development Bank of India, Lucknow

Key Organizations Served

Industry

• Crops Health Products Ltd., Ghaziabad

• J. Mitra & Company Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

• Bharat Biotech International Ltd., Hyderabad

• Biological E. Limited., Hyderabad

• Haryana Biotech Limited, Gurgaon

• ShanthaBiotechnicsPvt. Ltd., Hyderabad

• Shyamsree Agro Commodities Private Limited, Kolkata

• ZydusCadilla Healthcare Ltd., Ahmedabad

• Panacea Biotec Ltd., New Delhi

• EXPO Mushroom Ltd., Orissa

• USV Limited, Mumbai

• Sri Biotech Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad

• Accurex Biomedical Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai

• HLL Lifecare Limited, Thiruvananthapuram

• Kera Fast Inc., USA

• Applied Biological Material, Canada

International Organisations

• UNIDO

• World Bank

• UNDP

• UNEP

• WIPO

• ILSI Research Foundation

• African Centre for Technology Studies

• Lockheed Martin, USA

Status/Sectoralstudies (Sponsors)

• Indian medicinal plants (EXIM Bank)

• Status of Indian Biotech Industry (Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change(MoEFCC))

• National Standards for Organic Production (APEDA)

• Biotechnology risk assessment and management in Asia (African Centre for Technology Studies, Kenya)

• Use of biotechnology in Indian food processing industries (Ministry of Food Processing Industries)

• Study on alternatives to animal testing (MoEFCC)

• WTO Impact assessment study SSIs

(SIDBI)

• Landscape Study on Influenza Vaccine (BIRAC)

Techno Economic FeasibilityReports (Sponsors)

• Feasibility study for setting agri-export zone (MP Oilfed)

• Technology assessment of vaccine candidates against Chikungunya virus (DBT, GOI)

• Assessment of R&D projects for IP and commercial potential (Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research)

• Evaluation of technologies for IP and commercial potential (IIT Madras)

Important Assignments Completed

Detailed Project Reports (Sponsors)

• Centre of Excellence in biotechnology (Punjab State Council for Science & Technology, Chandigarh)

• Techno economic feasibility study of model organic farm in North-East (APEDA)

• DPR for setting up a micropropagation commercial unit (EXPO Mushroom Ltd.)

• DPR for setting up a National Biotechnology Translational Research Institute in Uttar Pradesh (Council of Science and Technology, Government of Uttar Pradesh)

Market Surveys (Sponsors)

• Diagnostics and vaccines (Canadian High Commission)

• Market survey on biopesticides(DBT, GOI)

• Market survey on diagnostics and recombinant therapeutics (DBT, GOI)

• Techno-market survey of vaccines and molecular diagnostics (TIFAC)

• Biosensor for detection of organochlorine and organophorus pesticides in the environment (Indo Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology, Zurich)

• Market survey on tissue culture raised plants (DBT & Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium)

Miscellaneous (Sponsors)

• Coordination of preparation of National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan

(NBSAP) (MoEFCC/UNDP)

• Sensitization programme on biotechnology for the small scale industries (MSME)

• Establishment of websiteson Biosafety Clearing House (MoEFCC/World Bank)

• International exhibition and workshop on biotechnology (DBT/MoEFCC/Government of Andhra Pradesh)

• Series of National consultation on biosafety issues for members and DBT nominees of Institutional Biosafety Committees (DBT)

• Technical workshop on GM food safety (AGBIOS, Canada)

• IP due diligence of over 400 industry proposals (BIRAC)

• Management of National Certification System for Tissue Culture Raised Plants (NCS-TCP) (DBT)

• Management of project on Development of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Device (AIIMS)

• Independent evaluation of technologies (Lockheed Martin, USA)

• Independent Evaluation of DBT-HRD programmes (DBT)

• Advisory services for operationalization of Keystone Knowledge Park for Mayar Infrastructure Development Pvt. Ltd, (MIDPL)

• Preparation of DPR for Biotech Parks/Incubator for 15 State Governments/Agencies

Technologies Transferred

• Biopesticides; TNAU, Coimbatore

• Western Blot based HIV 1+2 Diagnostics; ACTREC, Navi Mumbai

• HIV 1 and 2 diagnostics (ELISA);NII, New Delhi

• Microbial consortia for reproducible BOD analysis; IGIB, New Delhi

• Hepatitis A diagnostics; NIV, Pune

• Trichoderma viride; RRL, Jammu

• Reproductive hormones diagnostics; (NIRRH), Mumbai

• Dengue, JE and West Nile diagnostics;NIV, Pune

• Alphafetoprotein diagnostics; IICB, Kolkata

• Chlamydia Diagnostic kit; NIOP, New Delhi

• Neonatal Resuscitation Device;SIB, DBT, GoI

• Limb-Immobilisation Device;SIB, DBT, GoI

• Patient Transfer Device; SIB, DBT, GoI

• Auditory Impairment Screening Device; SIB, DBT, GoI

• Soft Tissue Biopsy Device; SIB, DBT, GoI

• Device for Concurrent Biopsy and Hemostasis; SIB, DBT, GoI

• Abdominal Paracentesis Device;SIB, DBT, GoI

• Device/Kit for Pleural Tapping;SIB, DBT, GoI

• Recombinant hepatitis B vaccine;MSU, Baroda

• Recombinant epidermal growth factor; MSU, Baroda

• Recombinant anthrax vaccine;JNU, New Delhi

• Vi-Conjugate Typhoid Vaccine;AIIMS, New Delhi

• Acute lymphoblastics leukemia diagnostic; IICB, Kolkata

• Viral promoter: DD-7 from Rice tungro bacilliform virus; University of Delhi South Campus

• PCR based TB Diagnostic;AIIMS, New Delhi

• Plant extract based biopesticide formulation 'Bollcure' against cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera),TERI, New Delhi

• Quantitative detection of reproductive hormones; NIRRH, Mumbai

• Fecal Incontinence Management Device; SIB, DBT, GoI

• Tissue culture based propagation of oil palm plants; Directorate of Oil Palm Research, ICAR, Padavegi/ Agrinnovate India Limited, New Delhi

• Isolation of nucleic acids from plant tissues; IFGTB, Coimbatore

• Fetomaternal Parameter Monitoring System; SIB, DBT, GoI

• Portable Device for Hand Sanitization; SIB, DBT, GoI

• Bone Morphogenetic ProteinResponsive Reporter Cell Line (BRITER); SIB, DBT, GoI

• Breathable and Customized Cast for Immobilization of Fractured Limb;SIB, DBT, GoI

• Assistive Device for NG Tube Deployment; SIB, DBT, GoI

• Device for Foreign Body Removal;SIB, DBT, GoI