Institute of Microbial Technology
The Institute of Microbial Technology was established in January, 1984 in Chandigarh to undertake research and development activities in the broad area of Biotechnology. Set-up to be a forerunner in carrying out application oriented R&D, the Institute, eversince its inception has been formulating such research programmes which have a short-term objective of capability generation and a long-term perspective of generating newer leads in the critical areas of its working, viz., molecular biology, protein engineering, fermentation technology etc.