In a move set to strengthen scientific ties between India and the United Kingdom, the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Imperial College London.
The partnership aims to foster cross-border innovation, harnessing the strengths of both nations’ research and entrepreneurial ecosystems to advance the life sciences sector.
The MoU will create a long-term framework for bilateral innovation, promoting the exchange of researchers, innovators and startups.
It will also serve as a platform for structured knowledge sharing on priority challenges, innovation readiness and ecosystem initiatives, paving the way for collaborative solutions to mutually relevant biological questions.
Welcoming the MoU, Professor Hugh Brady, President, Imperial College London said, “This ambitious partnership reflects Imperial’s deep commitment to strengthening long-term collaborations with India’s life sciences ecosystem. By joining forces with C-CAMP and supported through our Imperial Global India initiative, we are creating a powerful bridge between the UK and India that connects world-class research with entrepreneurship and translation.”
Brady added, “The Indo-UK Life Sciences Innovation Corridor will enable researchers, innovators, and startups to collaborate more effectively and accelerate new technologies to address global challenges.”
Dr Taslimarif Saiyed, Director-CEO, C-CAMP said the corridor marks a remarkable chapter of synergy between two of the world’s capital cities in biotech science and innovation, Bengaluru and London.
“We are envisioning the next era of Indo-British collaboration in the biosciences, a core area of interest to both geographies and human society at large. The five-year long partnership is a strategic decision to provide an enduring platform to bring together the complementary strengths of both ecosystems in developing, validating and deploying globally relevant life sciences solutions,” he said.
