“For any society to move forward, research and innovation remain a crucial aspects. India has given a push to indigenous research and this is reaping benefits for us now,” Union Health Minister, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya stated while inaugurating ICMR-NARFBR (National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research) at Genome Valley, Hyderabad recently in presence of Shri C. Malla Reddy, Minister of Labour and Employment, Telangana.
The significance of NARFBR can be adjudged from the fact that the study of animals in biomedical research becomes crucial in discovering causes, diagnosis, and treatment of zoonotic agents and diseases. NARFBR is an apex facility that will provide ethical care and use and welfare of laboratory animals during research.
The newly build center will work as a state-of-the-art facility for not just ethical animal studies but spans from basic, and applied to regulatory animal research. It will help in the capacity building of new researchers and will create processes for pre-clinical testing of new drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics within the country along with quality assurance checks.