Biotechnology is a scientific revolution which gives multiple opportunities to meet the challenges around the globe in all sectors of life sustaining activities such as food, healthcare, environment etc. The ability to manipulate the genetic material of an organism to achieve specified outcome is one of the exciting applications of this field. The most significant achievement is an outcome of human genome project identifying about 25000 genes responsible to regulate human health by orchestration of genes inside the cells, a most exciting research to get explored. This will go a long way in revolutionizing the understanding of human development and help in monitoring and identifying the innovative treatment for life threatening diseases such as cancer, neurodegenerative disorder like schizophrenia, etc.
Another breakthrough in 2009 was mapping the position of each of hundreds and thousands of atoms to regulate ribosomes inner most working and generating 3D models demonstrating how ribosomes bind to different antibiotics will be of great assistance to scientists to discover new antibiotics for saving lives and decreasing humanity sufferings.
Biotechnology has further made some advancement in the introduction of recombinant biologics by sequencing the DNA coding for specific therapeutic proteins in bacterial, yeast and mammalian cells to get biopharmaceutical protein products. The first recombinant therapeutic product Eli Lilly insulin, humiline was approved in 1982. Since then more than 250 biotechnology derived medicines have been licensed for use in humans, some of these are simple peptide, proteins, monoclonal antibiotics, fusion proteins and cell based therapies. These biologic products have a great future in diagnosis, prevention and treatment of the diseases.
Biotechnology today has become the comprehensive scientific venture both commercially and academically in a very short time. The inventions of Bt crop species (cotton, corn and potato, brinjal ) is another breakthrough in providing substantial benefits to the farmers and as such by 2008 Bt crops had occupied an area of 43 million hectares out of the 125 million hectares.
The future of graduates in biotechnology is very bright. Looking to the present scenario as per estimate, 10% researcher and 15% scientists in Pharma / Biotech, R & D in US are of Indian origin. Biotechnology in India is poised to take a big leap and it offers great opportunities and challenges to contribute in R & D and clinical research, quality-cum-sales, marketing and regulatory. India presently has entered in an everlasting potential not only as a destination for new generation of biotech products but is emerging as a potential hub for outsourcing of clinical trials, conduct research and manufacturing. India is today one of the five emerging biotech leaders in the Asia Pacific and amongst top three biotech hubs after Japan and Korea. The biotech business is growing at a pace of 30 – 40% per annum and estimated to cross $ 5 billion by 2010 (ABLE – Biospectrum Survey for 2006 – 2007). However, still a lot remains to be explored to meet the ever-growing challenges on different fronts of life sustaining processes.
There is a wide scope of graduates and post-graduates in biotechnology, bioinformatics and medical biotechnology in the corporate sector as well as in institutions of higher learning in India and abroad. In 2009-10, 35 Biotech and Life Science- linked IT companies visited Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Noida and placed 90% of the students with an average package of 2.75 to 4.75 lakhs per annum in last 5 years and the highest package of 7.20 lakhs per annum. Students get very exhaustive training as per academic career both in-house and partly from the institutions of repute in India and abroad. Under-graduate and Post-Graduate students have gone for higher studies in 5 to 6 countries including US, UK and Germany, and earned good reputation with job security. Having one of the best working facilities with 58 advanced laboratories and 35 lecture theatres equipped with audio-visual aids and modern infrastructure. Institute have 138 faculties with excellent training from almost all top institutions in India and 90% are Ph.D. with experience of working in top institutions abroad including US, UK, Germany, Japan and Australia . Total of 3000 students are on roll of the institute. The institution provides a unique programme (two year course) with MBA (Biotech Management) which helps in linking with the biotech corporate sector to a greater extent. Hence, technically trained graduates in MBA Biotech management occupy important positions in Biotech companies which has helped in linking R& D and marketing in corporate sector.
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