Biotechnology – Overview

Biotechnology as a science has enabled a multitude of key discoveries in life sciences, which has changed to a great extent the primary lifestyle of human society. Modern biotechnology provides tremendous scope for developing new products and technologies which finds promising application in environmental sustainability and food security. Several advancements in biotechnology including drug development, regenerative medicine, genetically modified crops and organisms, environmental clean -up, bioprocess technology and nano-biotechnology has made biotechnology a truly global industry. Technological changes and globalization has opened a floodgate of opportunities for the Biotechnology industries and a great deal of international activity has centered on producing advantageous biotechnological innovations for the developing countries. The new challenge ahead of us makes research and development in the field of biotechnology inevitable. To keep pace with this fast growing field the B. E. Biotechnology programme has been introduced at the under graduate level.

Our goal is to provide a quality education for young students to point the way for exciting, satisfying and rewarding careers and to expand their understanding and knowledge of scientific and engineering principles underlying biotechnology. 

The Department is committed to train students to utilize their knowledge and expertise for the rapidly growing biotechnology industry and to achieve good working cooperation with experts from other related fields, so as to encourage and prepare them for research activities in biotechnology. 

The under graduate Biotechnology curriculum is innovative, exciting and challenging. According to the global biotechnology scenario the curriculum is framed to cover the scientific principles necessary for the advanced understanding of subjects like Nano-biotechnology, Biopharmaceutical technology, Molecular modeling and drug designing, Stem cell biology, Cancer biology, etc. The syllabus of the laboratory experiments has also been designed in order to fulfill the objectives of the course.

The Department has excellent laboratories equipped with the latest instruments of state of the art quality like HPLC, Ultra- filtration Unit, ELISA Reader and Washer, Fluorescent Microscope, Labomed Advanced Trinocular Microscope with Colour Video Camera and Computer, Thermocycler, Gel Documentation System, etc.