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Cabinet approves Indo-US pact for cooperation in field of medicineBy uniindia
New Delhi, Jul 17 (UNI) The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday gave an ex-post facto approval to the Inter-Institutional Agreement between India and the US in areas of regenerative medicine and 3D bio-printing, new technologies, exchange of scientific ideas, information and technologies, and joint use of scientific infrastructure.
Under this agreement, the joint research projects, training programmes, conferences, seminars will be open to all qualified scientists and technologists, and will be supported on the basis of scientific merit and excellence, said Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar.
"Scientific research and technology development in the areas of regenerative medicine and 3D bio-printing will have potential for generation of new Intellectual Property, processes, prototypes or products", the Minister added.