The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms ( C-CAMP), India’s premier technology and innovation hub will house the BIRAC Regional Entrepreneurship Centre (BREC) set up with the objective of encouraging the spirit of bio-entrepreneurship, facilitating creation of life science start-ups and mentoring start-ups to increase their chances of success.

BREC was officially launched on February 23, 2017 in New Delhi in the presence of Prof. G. Padmanaban, Honorary Professor and Former Director IISc and Prof. K. VijayRaghavan Secretary, Department of Biotechnology.

“BIRAC’s strategy for establishing BREC at C-CAMP is to amplify our portfolio of activities which can be leveraged by biotech start-ups to transition and scale to the next level” observed Dr. Satya Dash, Head – SPED, BIRAC.

“C-CAMP has some exciting programmes in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in biotechnology. Launching of BREC at C-CAMP provides an ideal platform to step up and amplify biotechnology entrepreneurship scenario across India” said Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed, director & COO, C-CAMP.

Proposed activities at BREC include biotechnology entrepreneurship awareness programmes, a national biotechnology entrepreneurship challenge, business/strategy boot camps and workshops with national/international experts, investors meetings and knowledge seminars.

“We look forward to building partnerships with other stakeholders of the entrepreneurial ecosystem to achieve BREC goals” Dr. Saiyed, said.