Proforma for Research Proposal
MOTIVATION
In Science it is said that only two people are
remembered; those who said the first word and those who say the last word. How
many times we, in Indian science, have achieved this feat? Indeed how many times
have we, in CSIR, dreamt of achieving this feat? Can we have a step jump in our
ambitions in science in CSIR; so that we could be the ones who would open up new
frontiers and lead and not follow? The New Idea Fund has been created for
members of the CSIR science community who venture to dare, take risks to explore
ideas with explosive creativity and novelty. This fund will support
pre-competitive research in CSIR on a competitive basis.SUPPORT
By very definition the proposals will be
exploratory and support will be provided for proving the feasibility of a
possibly far reaching concept in the first place. After the initial funding, If
the concept is proved, then the funding would be provided through the normal
CSIR funding channels. If the results are such that major technological
breakthroughs are likely to be achieved, then even external funding will be
sought. However in the first instance, the New Idea Fund will restrict itself to
supporting exploratory part of the research.PROPOSALS
The proposals in the prescribed format (see
overleaf) should be submitted to DG,CSIR twice in a year i.e. on or before 15
September or 15 March.SELECTION
A high powered expert committee of external,
eminent scientists will review the proposals. The investigators will be expected
to make the presentations to this expert committee. Announcement for support
will be made on 1st December and 1st June of the year. REVIEW
The approved
proposals for support under NIF schemes are reviewed every year by the Committee
which recommends the continuation of support.
|
Year |
Lab. |
Project
Title |
Name
of the Scientist |
Cost (Lakhs) |
|
|
1995 |
CLRI |
Spin computers. |
Dr.
N. Chandrakumar
Scientist F |
15.00 |
|
1995 |
NAL |
Alternate design of high performance CPU card without secondary cache. |
Dr.
U.N. Sinha
Scientist |
5.00 |
|
1996 |
NCL |
Non-hazardous direct oxidation of hydrogen to hydrogen peroxide. |
Dr.V.R.Choudhry
Scientist |
9.21 |
|
1997 |
IMT |
Obtaining Mirror image Structures of Proteins through Reversal of Polypeptide Backbone Direction. |
Dr.Purnananda
Guptasarma
Scientist |
49.50 |
|
IMT |
Functional Analysis of Genes that Confer Difficult to Screen Phenotypes to Yeast. |
Dr.K.Ganesan
Scientist |
15.24 |
|
|
CIMAP |
Plant Antibacterials Active against Drug Resistant Pathogens. |
Prof.
Sushil Kumar
Director |
37.35 |
|
|
1998 |
IMT |
Targetting M.tuberculosis entrapped in MHC-mismatched Macrophages to Dendritic Cells: approach for the Induction of Tuberculosis specific Protective Immunity. |
Dr.J.N.Agrewala
Scientist |
40.60 |
|
2001 |
CCMB |
Transcriptional
Regulation of Caspase Gene Expression by Tumor Suppressor P53. |
Dr. Ghanshyam Swarup Scientist |
17.02 |
|
2001 |
NCL |
Activation of
Methane and Carbon Dioxide: Novel Route for the Synthesis of Acetic
Acid. |
Dr.
A.A. Kelkar Scientist and R.V. Chaudhary |
18.90 |
|
CEERI |
.MeV Ion Induced
Reordering in Crystalline Silicon: Viability for Device Applications. |
Dr.
J. Akhtar Scientist And Dr. P. Sen, Jnu. |
22.50 |
|
|
2002 |
IICT |
The holy grail
of organic chemistry: directing influence in aromatic substitution - a
proposal to demolish this by site selective catalysis. |
Dr.
B.M. Choudhary Scientist |
20.00 |
|
2003 |
IMT |
Identification
of the function of unknown ORFs/ genes through genome-wide
perturbation analysis carried out in a heterologous host. |
Dr.
Anand K. Bachhawat, |
18.20 |
|
2004 |
IMT |
Is
chromatin replicated like DNA-Meselson& Stahl? |
Dr.
Jagmohan Singh, |
41.90 |
|
CIMAP |
A
polyploid model for fixation of hetrozygosity. |
Dr.
U.C. Lavania, |
20.96 |
|
|
NAL |
Development
of a novel optical flow diagnostic technique for simultaneous
measurement of velocity and density in fluid flows with density
gradients. |
Dr.
L. Venkatakrishnan, |
20.00 |
|
|
CDRI* |
Sending
a “Wake up” call to dormant cells of Mycobacterium tuberculosis:
Identification of signal proteins and receptors. |
Dr.
Ranjana Srivastava, |
31.00 |