New Delhi, July 6 -- Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Vice President of CSIR, Dr. Jitendra Singh, today inaugurated the Phenome India National Biobank National aiming to promise personalised healthcare for every Indian based on their genetic background, lifestyle and envirornment.
Designed on the lines of the UK Biobank but contextualised for Indian diversity, the biobank will collect and analyse genetic, lifestyle and clinical data from 10,000 individuals across the country.
It is housed at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) here.
Dr Singh who also launched India's first longitudinal population health study on the occasion, said, "This is a ...