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CDFD to set up Mycobacterium challenge facility by December
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Joe C Mathew, Hyderabad
September 26 , 2017
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Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) is likely to house a
P3 containment laboratory with Mycobacterium challenge facility in its
newly constructed campus at Hyderabad soon. The facility is the first of
its kind in India and will be the first department to start functioning
in the massive CDFD building complex that is coming up in a 13-acre
plot at the outskirts of Hyderabad.
Informing this to Pharmabiz.com, Sayed Hasnain, director, CDFD said that
the facility is expected to be ready by the end of the current year.
The challenge facility has been completely funded by CSIR and is to be
exclusively used for research purposes.
CDFD is already undertaking research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The
studies are aimed at identifying mechanisms for directional activation
of the immune system to combat diseases like tuberculosis as well as
other important health affecting diseases like cancer, HIV, malaria etc.
In all these cases, macrophage activation plays a crucial role for
manifestation of protective responses.
CDFD is currently functioning from an interim building complex located
at Nacharam, Hyderabad. The new complex is coming up in the land
allotted by the government of Andhra Pradesh.
The complex, with a total built up area of about 25,000 sq m will house a
main laboratory building, animal house, hostel cum guest house,
director's residence, scientists apartments and the P3 laboratory.
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