Minister of State for Science and Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated Asia’s first health research-related “Pre-clinical Network facility” at the Translational Health Science & Technology Institute” (THSTI), Faridabad on Tuesday. The Ministry of Science and Technology said that the facility will be the 9th such network laboratory across the globe and the first such laboratory in the whole of Asia.

Dr Singh inaugurated the Genetically Defined Human Associated Microbial Culture Collection (Ge- HuMic) facility to act as a repository for providing microbial cultures to research institutes, universities, and industries for Research and Development. The Minister also signed more than a dozen agreements and MoU with Private sector for Vaccine development by Department of Biotechnology under the Ministry.