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College of Bio-Technology
This college is proposed to be established with following objectives and justifications:
Objectives
- Provide an education in the Animal Biotechnology and Pre-Veterinary Medicine that prepare students for a productive career, graduate education, or acceptance into a professional curriculum.
- Develop centers of excellence in research programs that meet younger scientists needs and address issues of future concern and importance.
- Transfer new knowledge and relevant information to our scientists through extension education and outreach programs.
- To develop new and expanded programs for research, training and technology transfer.
- To increase regional, national and international recognition of our programs.
- To conduct both internal and external reviews of our programs on a regular basis
- To ensure that we are achieving our department goals.
- To clarifying mechanisms in the fields of infectious diseases, reproductive biology underlying health and disease of animals and humans at cellular and molecular levels and
- To the identification of the animal genome
Justification
- Molecular diagnostic techniques for important diseases of Livestock and poultry.
- Development of monoclonal antibodies for specific diagnosis & characterization of pathogens
- Development of new generation vaccines/marker vaccines for better protection and use in eradication programme.
- Disease Surveillance/disease eradication using molecular biology tools.
- Study of molecular mechanism of pathogenesis of important pathogens.
- Transgenic techniques for production of chemotherapeutics experimental animal models.
- Research on stem cell area for treatment of various diseases/genetic disorders.
- To develop Human Resource in the field of veterinary biotechnology.
Impact
Biotechnology will change traditional industries such as food processing and fermentation. It will also change the development of a whole new technology for industrial production of hormones, antibiotics and other chemicals, food and energy sources and processing of waste materials.
- Animal with good health provides essential food and fiber.
- Healthy companion animals enrich our lives
- Healthy wildlife adds to our quality of life and conservation of the environment
- Scientists prevent and control diseases transmitted from animals to humans and protect food safety.
- Comparative medical research saves lives and improves animal and human health
- Biotechnology advances lead to better diagnostic tools and medical therapies
- Basic research furthers our knowledge about the genetic basis of human disease
- Basic and applied research improve the production and management of domestic and wildlife species
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