Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platform (C-CAMP), India’s premier technology and innovation hub and One Nucleus, the UK based international life science and healthcare membership organisation, have signed a strategic partnership agreement.

The objective is to promote and encourage collaborations between life science researchers and companies and members between the two countries. It would also facilitate networking and partnering meetings as well as hosting visiting delegations from each other’s countries.

C-CAMP and One Nucleus will act as a gateway for information sharing and facilitation and enable start-ups and research institutes to leverage the innovation eco-system in each other’s leading clusters.

Commenting on the partnership, Dr Taslimarif Saiyed, director and COO, C-CAMP said ‘in the last couple of years, C-CAMP has worked extensively to establish a robust life science innovation and entrepreneurship eco-system in and around Bengaluru which nurtures many start-ups all over India with support from DBT and BIRAC. This partnership with One Nucleus provides an opportunity for C-CAMP to make stronger ties with the Cambridge/London cluster - one of the leading innovation eco-systems in the world. We are hopeful of some ground breaking collaborations and outcomes from this partnership in the coming years.’

Harriet Fear, CEO of One Nucleus added ‘Many of our members are interested in exploring opportunities with the Indian market but they either have limited knowledge or experience of the potential for collaboration and mutual advancement. I am hugely excited to have entered into this strategic relationship with C-CAMP. My team and I very much look forward to building the blocks for, and with, our members and the Indian community.’

The agreement was initiated during the UK drug development mission for the Bengaluru BIO early this year.