JNCASR, CrisprBits Signs LoI to Setup CoE for CRISPR Innovation and Translation
In December 2025, the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), an autonomous institute of Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoS&T), signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with CRISPRBITS Private Limited (CrisprBits), to set up a new Centre of Excellence for CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) Innovation and Translation (CoE-CIT).
In December 2025, the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), an autonomous institute of Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoS&T), signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with CRISPRBITS Private Limited (CrisprBits), to set up a new Centre of Excellence for CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) Innovation and Translation (CoE-CIT).
- The agreement marks one of India’s first major Public–Private Partnership (PPP) initiatives in the CRISPR gene-editing domain.
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- What? Signing of LoI
- Entities Involved:JNCASR and CRISPR Pvt. Ltd.
- Purpose: To set up a CoE for CRISPR Innovation and Translation
- Aim: Translate CRISPR-based research into clinical applications
About CoE-CIT:
Aim: This new CoE will be developed as a dedicated hub to harness cutting-edge Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) technologies, aimed to translate scientific discoveries in a laboratory into real-world clinical applications.
Significance: The proposed facility will deliver lab-ready drugs to the patient and offer therapeutic benefits by combining expertise of JNCASR in basic biomedical sciences and applied gene-editing and translation platforms of CrisprBits.
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