- More Info
- www.birac.nic.in
- Organization
- Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) (BIRAC)
- Fund type
- Grant
- Source
- Government
- Status
- Active
- Focus area
- Biotech, Medtech, Health & rehabilitation
- Target
- Private Limited Company | Limited Liability Partnership | Academic/ Research Institutes | MSME | Not for profits
- Fund range
- Rs. 25 lakhs- Rs. 50 lakhs | Rs. 50 lakhs- Rs. 2cr
- Fund stages
- A. Technology Development | D. Technology Scale-up/ Validation / De-risking
Call for proposals on ‘Breakthrough Solutions and Cost-Disruptive Innovations for Screening and Diagnosis’ addressing the gaps and challenges in the screening and diagnosis of priority infectious disease areas – tuberculosis, emerging pathogens, syndromic testing and enteric pathogens.
This call is a part of the global Grand Challenges call on ‘Innovations in Cost-Disruptive Novel Tools for Screening and Diagnosis’ focusing on different priority areas and opportunities. The initiative under GC India seeks transformative, high-risk, high-reward innovations in the priority disease area, fundamentally rethinking how diagnosis or screening is performed, including novel sensing modalities, software-defined diagnostics, and AI-enabled or software-only approaches that materially change performance, cost structure, or deployment models.