The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) ranked first in number of medical biotechnology patents in the country.

Abstract:

• The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is ranked as the first in the country in terms of number of medical biotechnology patents, followed by Hindustan Lever and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has been ranked first in the Nature Ranking Index-2020. The rankings are based on total research output which the institutions have carried out from December 01, 2018, to 30th November 2019. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, has been ranked second.
• CSIR-New Delhi has achieved the top position with 142 counts (C) and a share percentage (SP) of 87.74.
• About 4600 scientists are actively involved in CSIR’s 38 laboratories across the country, supported by about 8000 scientific and technical personnel.
• The institute works in various disciplines and fields of science and technology including radio and space physics, ocean science, geophysics, chemistry, medicine, genomics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, mining, aeronautics, equipment manufacturing, environmental engineering and information technology.

 

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is ranked as the first in the country in terms of a number of medical biotechnology patents, followed by Hindustan Lever and Department of Biotechnology (DBT).

No Indian organisation ranked close to the top 25 global entities in terms of output in the field, according to a report on Research Landscape and Performance Benchmarking in Biotechnology, a study commissioned by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, and conducted by Elsevier.

The CSIR ranked first in the country with 333 patent families, Hindustan Lever ranked second with 99 patent families, followed by the Department of Biotechnology, with 90 patent families in medical biotechnology. Biocon with 61 patent families, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories with 56, Eli Lilly with 47, Unilever with 46 and the Indian Institute of Technology with 46 patent families are the other major players in the medical biotechnology patenting in the country.

A patent family is a collection of patent applications covering the same or similar technical content.

Cadila Healthcare Ltd has 42 patent families, Avesthagen has 38 and Sun Pharmaceutical and Lupin have 38 and 35 patent families respectively. The other major firms which have more than 20 patent families include Panacea Biotech Ltd (35), Piramal Enterprises Ltd (33), Reliance Life Sciences Pvt Ltd (32), Wockhardt Ltd (31), National Institute of Immunology (30), Serum Institute of India (27), Bharat Biotech International (27) and Indian Institute of Science (26).

Globally, the medical biotechnology segment is much less dominated by organisations from Asia, with multiple US universities taking their share in the top spots. However, the Chinese Academy of Sciences ranked first with 3,512 patent families, almost 800 more than the University of California System in second place with 2,711 patent families, Shanghai Bode Gene Development third with 2,519 patent families applied between 1999 and 2002 followed by F.Hoffmann-La-Roche (2,396), GlaxoSmithKline (2,052), Novartis (2,023), Bayer Healthcare (1,991), Sanofi (1,933), US HHS (1,611) and CNRS (1,572).

In terms of research publications, globally, India ranks fourth based on the number of biotechnology publications, after the United States, China and Japan. Across agricultural, environmental, industrial and medical biotechnology, during the period between 1999 and 2018, India produced 38,595 of the 5,02,336 global biotechnology publications, accounting for 7.7 per cent of the global scholarly output over the period. India’s contribution to the field has been growing overtime; its annual growth rate of publications was 10.6 per cent, which is faster than the 6.4 per cent overall rate for the field. India’s growth was not only in terms of publications, but also citation impact and international collaboration.

Global research publications have grown from 11,611 publications in 1999 to 38,040 in 2018, with a compound annual growth rate of 6.4 per cent. This represents faster growth than the rate for total research output, which was 5.1 per cent over the period. There is an acceleration in publication growth in the second half of the decade.

The proportion of biotechnology publications globally, belonging to medical biotechnology accounts for most biotechnology publications and has been increasing over time, from around one third (35.6 per cent) of biotechnology publications in 1999 to nearly half (46.8 per cent) of all biotechnology publications in 2018, it said.

Institutes such as University of Delhi, the Banaras Hindu University and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, which each published more than or close to 700 biotechnology publications in the 1999-2018 period. In terms of biotechnology sub fields, relative to the global distribution of publications, India appears to specialise in agricultural biotechnology preferentially with a subject share well above the global average. However, India’s publications in this sub field remain limited at around five per cent of India’s biotechnology publications and tend to present relatively low levels of citation impact and excellence, in line with global trends for the sub field.

List of CSIR Research Labs!

CSIR has a dynamic network of 38 National Research Laboratories which cover a wide spectrum of science and technology.

In 1943, CSIR approved the proposal to establish first five national laboratories – the National Chemical Laboratory, the National Physical Laboratory, the Fuel Research Station, and the Glass and Ceramics Research Institute. And, the target of developing these CSIR Research laboratories was accomplished in 1950.

S.No.	Name of the CSIR Lab	Research Area
1.	Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal	Ø  Light Weight Metallic Materials Ø  Smart & Functional Material Ø  Integrated Approach for Design & Product Development Ø  Radiation Shielding & Cement Free Concrete Ø  WRM & Rural Technologies Ø  Advanced Construction Material
2.	Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee	Building Construction Housing Habitat Planning
3.	Centre for Cellular Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad	Cellular Molecular Biology
4.	Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow	Drug Research and Development
5.	Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi	Electrochemical Science and Technology
6.	Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani	Advanced Electronic Systems Advanced Semiconductor Electronics Microwave Tubes Advanced Electronic Systems Advanced Semiconductor Electronics Microwave Tubes
7.	Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore	Food Science and Technology
8.	Central Glass Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata	Glass and Ceramics Technology
9.           10.	Central Institute of Medicinal Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow         Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR), Dhanbad	Agronomy Biotechnology Chemical Science Crop Protection Genetics and Plant Bleeding Plant Biology Coal and Minerals
11.	Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Chennai	Global Leadership Financial Sustainability
12.	Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur	Robotics & Mechatronics Embedded Systems & Electronics Energy & Process Plant Advanced Materials Processing Chemistry & Biomimetics Mechanical Design & Manufacturing Technology Rapid Prototyping & Tooling Farm Machinery & Post Harvest Technology Life Enhancement Studies (RLA) Metrology Chemistry & Biomimetics Foundry Tribology
13.	Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), New Delhi	Bridge Engineering and Structures Environmental Science Geotechnical Engineering Geotechnical Engineering Flexible Pavements Pavement Evaluation Rigid Pavements Traffic Engineering & Safety
14.	Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO), Chandigarh	Agrionics Biomedical Instrumentation Optical Devices & Systems Advanced Materials & Sensors Precision Mechanical Systems Ubiquitous Analytical Techniques Computational Instrumentation
15.	Central Salt Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI), Bhavnagar	Salt and Marine Chemicals Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Electro Membrane Processes Marine Biotechnology and Ecology Reverse Osmosis Engineering Wasteland Research Analytical Sciences
16.           17.	CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute (CFPI), Bengaluru           Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi	Carbon Cycle and Ocean Modelling Climate and Environmental Modelling Computational Mechanics High-Performance Computing and Cyber security Multiscale Modeling and Simulation Solid Earth Modelling Genomics and Molecular Medicine Respiratory Disease Biology Genome Informatics and Structural Biology Energy and Environmental Biotechnology Chemical & Systems Biology Ayurgenomics
18.	Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT), Palampur	High Altitude Biology Biotechnology Food and Nutraceuticals Agrotechnology of Medicinal, Aromatic and Commercially Important Plants Natural Product Chemistry and Process Development
19.	Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata	Biomedical Research
20.	Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad	Analytical & Molecular Modeling Chemical Processes and Industrial Engineering Energy and Material Health & Agrochemicals Societal
21	Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Jammu	Natural Products Chemistry (Plants) Fermentation Technology Natural Products Chemistry (Microbes) Microbial Biotechnology Medicinal Chemistry Clinical Microbiology Division Bio-Organic Chemistry Systems Biology Discovery Informatics Cancer Pharmacology Instrumentation Inflammation Pharmacology Chemical Engineering PK-PD and Toxicology Plant Biotechnology Formulation and Drug Delivery Biodiversity and Applied Botany Genetics Resources and Agrotechnology
22.	Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Dehradun	Analytical Sciences Automotive Fuel and Lubricant Application Division Bio Fuels Catalytic Conversion Processes Chemical Sciences Separation Processes Tribology & Combustion
23.	Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), Lucknow	Nanotherapeutics & Nanomaterial Toxicology Environmental Toxicology Food, Drug & Chemical Toxicology Regulatory Toxicology Systems Toxicology & Health Risk Assessment
24.	Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology(IMMT), Bhubaneswar	Advanced Materials Technology Design & Project Engineering Central Characterization Cell Colloids & Material Chemistry Design & Project Engineering Environmental & Sustainability Hydro & Electrometallurgy
25.	Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTech), Chandigarh	Exploration of Microbial Biodiversity Protein Science and Engineering Genetics and Molecular Biology Biochemical Engineering Bioinformatics Biosensors and Nanotechnology
26.	National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore	Advanced Composites Aerospace Electronics and Systems Civil Aircraft Design & Development Electromagnetics Computational and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics Societal Missions and Special Technologies Experimental Aerodynamics Flight Mechanics & Control Micro Air Vehicle Materials Science National Trisonic Aerodynamics Propulsion Surface Engineering Structural Technologies
27.	National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow	Botanic Garden and Distant Research Plan Ecology and Environment Science Plant Microbe Interaction and Pharmacogonosy Plant Diversity, Systematics and Herbarium Genetics and Molecular Biology
28.	National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune	Analytical Chemistry & Materials Characterization Bio-chemical and biological sciences Energy & Environmental Engineering Chemical Engineering Industrial catalysis and catalytic processes Material Science and Engineering Organic Synthesis and Technology Mathematical & Computational Modelling
29.	National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur	Air Pollution Control Climate Change Cleaner Technology & Modelling Environmental Biotechnology and Genomics Environmental Impact & Risk Assessment Environment Health Environmental Materials Environmental Virology Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Water Technology and Management Waste Water Technology
30.	North – East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST), Jorhat	Biological Sciences & Technology Chemical Sciences and Technology Engineering Sciences and Technology Geo Sciences and Technology Materials Sciences and Technology
31.	National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad	Engineering Geophysics Seismology Geo dynamics Geo environment
32.	National Institute For Interdisciplinary Science and Technology  (NIIST),Thiruvananthapuram	Agro-Processing and Technology Microbial Processes and Technology Chemical Sciences and Technology Materials Science and Technology Environmental Technology Societal Programs
33.	National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa	Biological Oceanography Chemical Oceanography Geological/Geophysical Oceanography Physical Oceanography Ocean Engineering Marine Instrumentation Marine Archeology
34.	National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), New Delhi	Communication in Science & Technology
35.	National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), New Delhi	Science and Technology Policy Research
36.	National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur	Mineral Processing Extractive Metallurgy Surface Engineering Applied & Analytical Chemistry Materials Engineering Materials Evaluation Energy & Environment
37.	National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi	Physics based Research and Development
38.	Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC), Chennai	Structural Concrete Engineering & Technology Sustainable Materials and Composites & retrofitting/Rehabilitation of Structures Computational Structural Mechanics for Analysis and Design, Modelling Simulation & Software Development Transmission line towers, Metal Structure Bahaviour and Fatigue and Fracture Structural Health Monitoring and Evaluation & Forensic Analysis Wind Engineering and Earthquake Engineering

 

 

Apart from these laboratories, there are 5 more CSIR-Units which offer opportunities to the selected candidates.

These are –

CSIR-UNIT: Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD), New Delhi

CSIR-UNIT: Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), New Delhi

CSIR-UNIT: Translational Research and Innovative Science ThRough Ayurveda (TRISUTRA), New Delhi

CSIR-UNIT: Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC), Ghaziabad

CSIR-UNIT: Unit for Research and Development of Information Products (URDIP), Pune.

About CSIR:

The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), known for its cutting edge R&D knowledge base in diverse S&T areas, is a contemporary R&D organization. CSIR has a dynamic network of 37 national laboratories, 39 outreach centres, 3 Innovation Complexes, and five units with a pan-India presence. CSIR’s R&D expertise and experience are embodied in about 3460 active scientists supported by about 4350 scientific and technical personnel as of June 2021.

CSIR covers a wide spectrum of science and technology – from oceanography, geophysics, chemicals, drugs, genomics, biotechnology and nanotechnology to mining, aeronautics, instrumentation, environmental engineering and information technology. It provides significant technological intervention in many areas concerning societal efforts, which include environment, health, drinking water, food, housing, energy, farm and non-farm sectors. Further, CSIR’s role in S&T human resource development is noteworthy.

Pioneer of India’s intellectual property movement, CSIR today is strengthening its patent portfolio to carve out global niches for the country in select technology domains. CSIR filed about 225 Indian patents and 250 foreign patents per year during 2015-20. CSIR has a patent portfolio of 1,132 unique patents in force, out of which 140 patents have been commercialized. CSIR also has 2,587 in force patents granted abroad in multiple countries. Amongst its peers in publicly funded research organizations globally, CSIR is a leader in filing and securing patents worldwide.

CSIR has pursued cutting edge science and advanced knowledge frontiers. In 2019, CSIR published 5009 papers in SCI Journals with an average impact factor per paper of 3.714.

CSIR has operationalized desired mechanisms to boost entrepreneurship, which could lead to enhanced creation and commercialization of radical and disruptive innovations, underpinning the development of new economic sectors.

CSIR has put in place CSIR@80: Vision & Strategy 2022 – New CSIR for New India. CSIR’s mission is “to build a new CSIR for a new India”, and CSIR’s vision is to “Pursue science which strives for global impact, the technology that enables innovation-driven industry and nurtures trans-disciplinary leadership thereby catalyzing inclusive economic development for the people of India”.

CSIR is ranked 37th among 1587 government institutions worldwide and is the only Indian organization among the top 100 global government institutions, according to the Scimago Institutions Ranking World Report 2021. CSIR holds the 7th rank in Asia and leads the country at the first position

 

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