About The Program
The Indo-Australian Career Boosting Gold Fellowships (IACBG-Fellowships) is organised by the Government of India, Department of Biotechnology, with support from the Australian Government, Australia, through the Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education.
The Government of India will fund ten (10) researchers from India for this program which support fellows undertake a collaborative research project at a leading science institute or university in the Australia for a period of 24
months, commencing in 2016.
Priority will be given to project related to following topics:
- Agricultural Biotechnology
- abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in crops
- crop improvement for nutrition and biomaterials
- germplasm sources for adaptability to climate extremes
- disease resistance
- biofuels
- Medical Biotechnology
- bioresourcing of novel antimicrobials from natural resources
- developing novel & improved vaccines delivery platforms
- diagnostics - affordable and rapid diagnostics for genetic and infectious diseases
- drug discovery and delivery system
- biomedical devices & implants for therapeutic applications.
- stem cells/regenerative medicines.