With the increase in the number of cardio vascular diseases in India, a state-owned research facily here is mulling to set up a CVD centre in collaboration with a US based foundation.
The Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) here in south Indian state Kerala has planned the new centre as a complete state-of-the-art research and knowledge hub of cardio
vascular diseases.
As part of the project, RGCB has entered into a partnership with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, a US research organisation working in the areas like neuro diseases, cancer, thrombosis etc, a top RGCB official said.
"We are planning to make the proposed centre operational by this December. RGCB and OMRF have jointly designed various plans for this. A RGCB delegation had visited OMRF last year to study the research possibilities of research collaboration.
Their faculty had expressed happiness to share their expertise for our new CVD centre," M Radhakrishnan Pillai, the Director of RGCB, said.
A joint PhD project and faculty-student exchange programmes are also under plans for the research activities in the proposed centre, RGCB sources said.
As part of the programme, the two organisations will jointly develop models for various researches projects.