Director's Message

Bidyut Kumar Sarmah

Director, DBT-NECAB & ICAR National Professor (Norman Borlaug Chair) (2016-2021)

In February 2011, the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, established the DBT-AAU Centre and strengthened it to the DBT-North East Centre for Agricultural Biotechnology (DBT-NECAB) in 2018. This Centre of Excellence for Agricultural Biotechnology is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for scientific research as well as academic excellence. The Centre allows scope for scientific exchange and collaboration with premier national and international organizations for capacity building and upliftment of the student community and faculty members. Currently, we have five core research programmes under the Centre and associated scientists have earned extramural grants for over thirteen projects. Each programme under the Centre is reviewed every six months by a panel of national and international experts including members from funding organizations through a Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC). The Centre strives to apply an interdisciplinary approach in building biotech-based projects, involving inputs from renowned scientists, experts and pioneers in the field of biotechnology, from time to time by organizing National and International symposiums and workshops. I am confident that with the involvement of a team consisting of highly trained scientists, technical staff as well as efficient office staff, the Centre will be able to achieve its long-term goals.