CINECDirectorate of Research
Narayana Translation Research and Incubation Centre (NTRIC)
VISION
- To evolve as an International Centre of Excellence in Translational Research and Promote Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
MISSION
- To Train, counsel, guide and mentor the students and faculties in performing innovative translational research and setting up of the enterprise.
- To facilitate the scientific interactions between different Departments of Medicine and its allied faculties to generate novel ideas.
- To provide infrastructure and state-of-art technology to test the hypothesis that could result in an invention.
- To encourage innovative collaborative basic research to benefit the community and enabling the industry to produce cost effective equipment and drugs.
- To be a center of excellence that fosters synergy between the academia and the industry that fuels entrepreneurial spirit and inculcates research bent of mind among students to help them to be self -reliant and contribute to the nation building.
- To nurture technology and knowledge based ventures through their start-up phase by providing the necessary support and promote entrepreneurship.
- To help medical researchers to obtain intra- and extra-mural research grants to carry out their research and publish the outcome in high-impact scientific journals and patent their findings.
Narayana Translational Research Centre
NTRC (recognized by DSIR, Govt. of India) – is an advanced center established with a view to be at par with international standards in both pre-clinical and clinical research. The infrastructure of the facility is of world class with a built in area of 16,000 Sq.Ft. which includes – Clinical Research Division, Conference Room, four Biosafety level II clean rooms with laminar air flow type II- A in each room to carry out Stem Cell, Molecular biology and Genetic studies. A central Laboratory exists with state of art instruments such as Real- Time PCR, Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC), Flow Cytometer, Inverted Fluorescence Microscope, Nanodrop and Microbiology incubator and Laminar hood. As well equipped with necessary equipment’s including cooling centrifuges, refrigerators and freezers (-20 & -80 deg. C), Gel-documentation system and an IR Camera. Outcome of various research activities carried out in this centre were published in both national and international reputed journals.
NTRC – Clinical Research Division
Bio-safety Level II Clean Room Facility
NTRC – Basic Research Division
CENTRAL RESEARCH ANIMAL FACILITY
A two-storeyed Animal facility was established in 1999 and utilized for experimental research in accordance with the CPCSEA guidelines of the Government of India. It fully air –conditioned and houses lab animals such as rats, mice, rabbits and guinea pigs. It facilitates the following activities – UG and PG pharmacy animal practical experiments; in-house medical and paramedical research; inter-institutional research and industrial research. Animal health and well-being is monitored daily by a veterinarian; and animals were well maintained and fed ad libitum by animal care-takers (24 h x 7 d)
