BEST-India (Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Student Teams) is aimed at encouraging young postgraduate and doctoral students in developing biotechnology entrepreneurship and exposing them to issues involved in commercialization of bio-science.
BEST is sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology (www.dbtindia.nic.in), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India and is administered by ABLE – India (www.ableindia.org) Important Dates Call of Proposal Open : 20th November 2010 Last date of uploading concept notes : 18 January 2011 First Level Screening of Proposals :1st February to 15 March 2011 Second Level Screening for 20 teams : 25 March to 25 May 2011 Announcement of Shortlisted 20 teams : 1 st June 2011 Entrepreneurship Workshop : 26 July to 29 July 2011 Eligibility Applicants must be students who are pursuing their masters (including 5 year integrated post graduate degree), doctoral degree, BE or B Tech courses or four year professional courses in the area of life sciences (bioscience/biotechnology and/or related subjects) from Indian Universities/Institutes. The applicants should form a team of 5 students and nominate a team leader. The individual team members may or may not br from the same institute/University. One third of the team members can be from disciplines other than life sciences. The winning teams will be presented with cash awards at ABLE’s BioInvest Conference. The awards are sponsored by DBT. The 1st Prize will be Rs. 500,000/-, The 2nd Prize will be Rs. Rs. 300,000/- and The 3rd Prize will be Rs. 200,000/-. Please visit http://bioexcellence.org to read the complete details -- http://www.cbclickbank.com/bioinformatics/company.htm List of the biotech company and address. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Biofriend Forum http://www.biofriend.info/ ============================================= Meet Biofriend India Team Manager at Linkedin http://in.linkedin.com/in/satishchauk
