Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms


The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms is an initiative of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science, Technology and Earth Sciences, Govt. of India. Established in 2009 with a mandate to enable cutting edge Life Sciences Research and Innovation, C-CAMP is the country’s most exciting life sciences innovation hub bringing together academia, industry and the startup ecosystem - all on one platform. It is also a part of the one of the country’s earliest bio-clusters, the Bangalore Bio-Cluster.

Vision

C-CAMP is envisioned to be an enabler for cutting-edge Bioscience research and innovation through its two major arms: services in state-of-the-art platform technologies and facilitation of Life Sciences innovation and entrepreneurship. It acts as the provider and developer of high-end technologies in life sciences to enable scientific activity and entrepreneurship. C-CAMP allows investigators to use techniques as tools and not be limited by technological barriers while pursuing challenging scientific questions. 250+ institutes and organisations from all across India have accessed its technology platforms. Altogether C-CAMP supported publications now number 100+.
From lab-space and high-end technical resources, to active involvement in Seed Funding schemes, scientific and business Mentorship and Accelerator programs, it provides a comprehensive, all-round support system to bio entrepreneurs with exciting deep-science ideas.
C-CAMP has directly funded, incubated and mentored over 100 start-ups over the last few years and is connected to about 500 startups and entrepreneurs across the country.

Technologies and services

C-CAMP is mandated to provide high-end platform technologies and expertise to all the academic and industrial scientific researchers in and around India. Some functions provided by its facilities include:
As a part of C-CAMP’s core mandate to nurture entrepreneurs in Biosciences across the country, it supports and handholds innovators on their journey to translate a bench-level idea into a full-fledged profit-making business venture. The support facilities C-CAMP provides are:
C-CAMP has received the National Entrepreneurship Award 2017 from the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship MSDE, Govt of India.