http://www.biospectrumindia.com | July 2017 | BioSpectrum BIOTalk^45
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Dr. Jitendra Kumar
Managing Director,
Bangalore Bioinnovation
Centre (BBC)“Empowered by Innovation:
“We are setting up Med
Tech Accelerator within our
existing state of art campus”
T
he Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre (BBC), a
centre for nurturing and promoting startups
in Life Sciences, has been set up on a 10-acre
campus next to Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied
Biotechnology (IBAB) and Centre for Human Genetics
(CHG) within Bangalore Helix Park. This is a flagship
project of Karnataka Biotechnology and Information
Technology Services (KBITS), Department of IT, BT
and S&T, Government of Karnataka. The Department
of Biotechnology, Government of India has generously
funded the common equipment facility of this centre.
IBAB faculty have been closely involved with
the planning and execution of the
centre, which started functioning in
December 2015.
Spread over
50,000 sq. ft., BBC currently have 17 companies.
Dr Jitendra Kumar, the Managing Director of BBC,
has been involved actively in mentoring incubatee
companies, creating pipeline of entrepreneurs through
innovative models of team building around the
technologies, working with public R&D laboratories
and universities to create entrepreneurial models
of commercialization and catalyzing the growth of
Biotech cluster in Southern Bangalore
In an interaction with BioSpectrum India Dr
Jitendra Kumar spoke about the achievements
of the Centre and his plans for the centre.
Excerpts of the interviewWhat is the status of Bangalore
Bioinnovation Centre (BBC)?
The centre is nestled between thriving academic
institutions like Institute of Biotechnology and Applied
Biotechnology (IBAB), Centre for Human Genetics
(CHG) and the upcoming area for anchoring big
companies/MNC. Thus, the centre provides a crucial
link between Academia and Industry within the
developing Bio- cluster- the Bangalore Helix Biotech