Healthcare is one of the primary concerns of the average citizen. What are the ailments that CSIR is targeting in particular?
Asthma A mission mode programme on asthma has been launched for finding a cure for this disease following the realization of CSIRs role as a nodal player in the field due to the existing expertise in its allergy group and promise shown by its herbal medicine (Asmon) developed by the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata. Studies carried out by CSIR have already led to significant increase in the understanding of the disease viz., atopic nature of asthma, identification, purification and characterization of allergic proteins, identification of T-cell epitopes of allergens, development of in vitro screening procedure using human endothelial cell adhesion molecules, identification of the human lung surfactant proteins in respiratory disorders, identification of SNPs in few candidate genes for asthma, development and a mouse model of asthma. The future studies envisaged include an integrated, networked and focused mission aiming at (i) development of therapeutic modalities using SP
