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Nature Biotechnology 26, 1202 (1 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/nbt1108-1202

India partners to fast track biotech

Killugudi Jayaraman

India is embarking on a series of foreign tie-ups to boost research and train manpower for its burgeoning biotech industry. The latest scheme, a |[pound]|160 million jointly funded partnership over ten years between the London-based Wellcome Trust and India's Department of Biotechnology (DBT), is the latest example of the partnership model pursued by the Indian government to strengthen its biotech base.