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JAMMU: Jammu-based Regional Research Laboratory (RRL) has been upgraded to an autonomous institution named as Indian Institute of Integrated Medicine (IIIM).
"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his capacity as the President of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) has given his nod to this move," Director RRL, Dr G N Qazi told reporters here on Monday evening.
With its upgradation, RRL would become one of the prestigious institutes of the country, he said, adding that though the whole process of its conversion into IIIM has started but formally the name will be changed in May this year when the institute will celebrate 50 years of its completion.
"There is no major financial implication involved in it. However, the number of people involved with the institute will increase as more research based projects will be submitted to it and system will change", Qazi said.
Since its establishment in 1941 as the Drug Research Laboratory (DRL), the RRL has grown a lot and now it is not only looking for regional aspirations but has become an institute of national and international repute, he said.
RRL has been conducting research based tests in various medical institutions of the country including Delhi, PGI Chandigarh, three hospitals and institutions in Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad, Qazi said.
He said with the coming up of Cancer Research Institute at Mata Vaishno Devi University in Katra, the Institute intends to conduct researches there.
RRL is presently one among the 10 institutions of CSIR at the national level, he said. |
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