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The National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research (NARF-BR) is ICMR's new flagship center founded in 2008, at Hyderabad, India. The center is a state of the art Animal house and Animal sciences facility. The center is located near Genome Valley, Turkapally Hyderabad. Drawing from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India Campaign,’ the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a long-pending proposal envisaging Rs 338.58 crore-world-class-facility for breeding beagle dogs, horses and monkeys besides other animals on a large scale to indigenously meet the needs of the country’s pharma firms for drug testing. The first-of-its-kind facility, National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research (NARF-BR) would come up at Genome Valley in Hyderabad for which over 103 acres of land has already been made available.〔http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/world-class-animal-breeding-facility-for-research-gets-nod.html〕 “The need for the NARF-BR has been consistently felt as the existing institutes like Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow and National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad are working on small animals, mostly rodents. They cannot meet the demand and requirement of biomedical sector, which has no option but to depend on countries like Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia for testing their products,” said a senior official from the Health Ministry. Sharing the cabinet decision with reporters after the cabinet meeting, Manoj Pant, Joint Secretary of Department of Health Research in the Ministry, “The institute is expected to cut down research cost by 60 per cent and consequently drugs and vaccine by about 30 per cent in the long run.” For instance, while presently research cost in US and China is around Rs 2 crore for 180 days, similar tests for same duration at NARBF will cost just Rs 51 lakhs. The institute proposes to breed specific pathogen free animals such as mice, rat, hamsters, rabbit, guinea pigs, mini pig, canine, swine, equine, sheep and goat, and various species of non-human primates such as bonnet monkey, cynomolgus monkey, pig tail monkey, owl monkey and squirrel monkey among others needed for research purpose. By tenth year of its functioning, the institute proposes to breed 1500 animals annually. Though the project was conceived way back in 2002 by the UPA Government, it got delayed due to financial and technical reasons. However, it got impetus recently as a part of the Modi’s government’s thurst to ingenious research and development. ==See also== *Genome Valley * Desert Medicine Research Centre 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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