Date: 2025-05-05Category: Not ApplicableState: Union GovernmentCountry: India
Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) announced a joint call for Proposals on Bio-AI for establishing मूलांकुर hubs under BioE3 Policy for Biomanufacturing
**Summary:**
In May 2025, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) jointly announced a call for proposals on BioAI. This initiative aims to establish BioAI hubs under the BioE3 Biotechnology for Economy, Environment, Employment Policy, approved by the Union Cabinet in August 2024, to foster high-performance biomanufacturing across the country. This policy aligns with the continuation of DBT's umbrella schemes, now merged as Biotechnology Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development (Bio RIDE), including a new component for biomanufacturing and biofoundry. The BioAI hubs will focus on integrating AI and biology to address critical research challenges in health, agriculture, and the environment. Letters of Intent (LoI) are sought to leverage AI in biology for areas such as Biomolecular Design, Sustainable Agriculture, Synthetic Biology, Ayurveda, and Genome Diagnostics. Multidisciplinary teams with expertise in synthetic biology, AI/ML, and computation are invited to propose data-driven research initiatives that address complex biological research problems and deliver projected outcomes.
Key Entities Referenced
Ministry of Science Technology: The Indian governmental ministry responsible for science and technology policy and research.
Department of Biotechnology DBT: A department within the Ministry of Science and Technology, focused on biotechnology.
Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council BIRAC: An organization that supports and promotes biotechnology research and development.
BioE3 Policy for Biomanufacturing: A policy initiative focused on biotechnology for economy, environment and employment through biomanufacturing.
BioE3 Biotechnology for Economy, Environment, Employment Policy: The full name of the BioE3 Policy approved in August 2024.
Shri Narendra Modi: The Prime Minister of India, who chaired the Union Cabinet meeting.
Biotechnology Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Bio RIDE: An umbrella scheme of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
BioAI: An initiative leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Biology.
Ministry of Science & Technology
Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and
Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council
(BIRAC) announced a joint call for Proposals on Bio-
AI for establishing hubs under BioE3 Policy for
Biomanufacturing
Posted On: 05 MAY 2025 4:57PM by PIB Delhi
The Union Cabinet approved the BioE3 (Biotechnology for Economy, Environment, & Employment) Policy,
in August 2024, for ‘Fostering High-Performance Biomanufacturing’ across the country. Subsequently, The
Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, approved continuation of the two umbrella
schemes of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), merged as one scheme-‘Biotechnology Research Innovation
and Entrepreneurship Development (Bio- RIDE)’ with a new component namely Biomanufacturing and
Biofoundry. With in the ambit of “High -Performance Biomanufacturing”, establishment of Bio-AI hubs for
building of data driven and cutting edge paradigms in the areas of Health, Agriculture and Environment.
Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) have
issued a Joint Call for Proposals on Bio-AI for establishing hubs under BioE3 Policy for Biomanufacturing.
Bio-AI hubs are proposed to be established across academia and industry to provide critical and novel
research leads impacting Health, Agriculture and Environment through conglomeration of AI and Biology.
The Letter of Intent (LoI) for Bio-AI is uniquely designed to utilize AI in Biology for solving key biological
challenges in Biomolecular Design, Sustainable Agriculture, Synthetic Biology, Ayurveda and Genome
Diagnostics. Therefore, the problem statements in these domains as well as possible research solutions are
invited from multi-disciplinary teams with research expertise across fields of synthetic biology, AI/ML and
Computation to address complex biological research challenges. The problem statements are to be addressed
by data-driven, cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary programmatic research initiatives for projected outcomes.
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