IISER Pune Sets Up Centre for High-End Cancer Research

With an objective to give a boost to research work in life sciences, IISER or Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (Pune) has set up an excellence centre. The centre will play a vital role in analysing hundreds of blood samples simultaneously. Through this research centre, biologists are all set to take up cancer tumour research to the next level. Director of IISER Pune inaugurated Centre for High-End Cancer Research on August 16, 2017. It has been set up in collaboration with PerkinElmer.

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Mr. Sanjeev Galande, Head of the Biology Department at IISER Pune revealed that the new research centre would have a high throughput capacity. It will be possible for IISER to analyse a huge number of samples. Other advantages of the same will include time save and accuracy in work. The total investment involved in the construction of the research centre is Rs. 10 crores. Around 500 students who are involved in intergrated researchers in the fields of Chemistry, Biology and Physics will be benefitted through this centre, he added.

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Mr. Sanjeev Galande further mentioned that the major focus area will be to study and analyse cancer tumour samples through high-end technology. The centre will take up extensive research in the field of cancer tumour research, he explained.

The centre will also be equipped with instruments including high-content analysers, plate readers and automated liquid handling workstations. The equipment that is used for multi-spectral imaging is also one of the specialities of the centre.

Director of IISER hailed the collaboration and termed it as one of the best examples of industry-academia collaboration.