Institutional Highlights

The Institute's primary asset is a team of more than 55 highly motivated scientists, with a majority of them having several years of training in world renowned laboratories. Supported by more than 300 well trained technical staff and graduate students, these scientists have built strong peer credibility both in basic and application-oriented broad thematic areas of Molecular biology and microbial genetics, Cell biology and immunology, Protein science and engineering, and Fermentation technology and applied microbiology. These overarching focus areas required enabling research facilities, structures and practices which IMTECH has created over the years, recognized nationally to be the best, and globally at par with the best. This required a visionary approach and objectives with a long term mandate of scientific relevance.

IMTECH's team of scientists having cutting edge R&D expertise in the areas of: Cloning & expression of recombinant / engineered proteins & their scale-up, Understanding / manipulating proteins and their engineering, Protein structure determination through X-ray crystallography, Molecular microbiology of pathogens especially with respect to drug resistance & vaccine development, Immunology of infectious diseases, Yeast Genetics, Screening of microorganisms for novel enzymatic activities and strain improvement, Bioinformatics & high end computational biology, Microbial taxonomy and metagenomics, and allied areas like technology and business management and intellectual property protection.

CSIR-IMTECH opens up a High-Tech Skill Development Centre in partnership with Merck

CSIR-IMTECH opens up a High-Tech Skill Development Centre in partnership with Merck

In a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology(IMTECH) today in collaboration with Merck

Dr. Tapan Chakrabarti, Consultant, NCCS Pune Visited CSIR-IMTECH

Dr. Tapan Chakrabarti, Consultant, NCCS Pune Visited CSIR-IMTECH

Dr. Tapan Chakrabarti, Consultant, NCCS Pune Visited CSIR-IMTECH

Prof. S. P. Gautam visited CSIR-IMTECH

Prof. S. P. Gautam visited CSIR-IMTECH

Prof.S. P. Gautam, Former Chairman, Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi visited CSIR-IMTECH on 13 Oct 2019

Dr Shiv Sarin, ILBS visited CSIR-IMTECH

Dr Shiv Sarin, ILBS visited CSIR-IMTECH

Dr Shiv Sarin, ILBS visited CSIR-IMTECH

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