Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH)
Director
Sector 39-A
Chandigarh - 160 036
+91 172 6665100, 6665201, 6665202, 2690585
+91 172 2690585, 2690632
admin[a]imtech.res.in, director[a]imtech.res.in
Outreach centres of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi. Set-up to be a fore-runner in the niche domain of microbial biotechnology. Expertise in the areas of: Cloning & expression of recombinant / engineered proteins & their scale-up, Understanding / manipulating proteins and their engineering, Protein structure determination through X-ray crystallography, Molecular microbiology of pathogens especially with respect to drug resistance & vaccine development, Immunology of infectious diseases, Yeast Genetics, Screening of microorganisms for novel enzymatic activities and strain improvement, Bioinformatics & high end computational biology, Microbial taxonomy and metagenomics, and allied areas like technology and business management and intellectual property protection.
