VITTAL MALLYA SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION

To undertake scientific and technological research in the fields of Natural and applied science including in the area of Biotechnology, food, chemical sciences, health care and Agricultural . To provide research and development facilities for carrying out basic and applied research in disciplines and fields such as Biochemistry, Micro biology, Genetic Engineering , any new source of proteins / or other nutritional food, nutritional toxicology , biomedical and related clinical sciences, food and flavor chemistry , organic, physical, medicinal and electro chemistry, polymer technology, material sciences and environmental sciences.In a short span of time the centre has developed several novel technologies and products in the domains of health care & agriculture, with strong IPR fortification. VMSRF has successfully completed 12 externally funded projects and 9 are ongoing projects funded by DBT, CSIR, DST, ICAR and IFS, Sewden which includes ( major) Characterization of Biochemical Pathway of Santalol in Sandalwood; Modification of oil composition in Jatropha by Metabolic Engineering; Increasing oil content in Safflower by Metabolic Engineering; Metabolic profiling in Tomato; Biosurfactants; Screening of plant based Antimicrobial and Anti-insecticidal drugs; Development of Botanical pesticide database; Anticancer activity of Flavonoids; and In silico modeling studies of thioesterases. VMSRF has a strong work ethics and in-house skill sets in the field of Plant Molecular Biology; Natural Product Chemistry; Nutraceuticals; and Bioinformatics. In addition, various eminent scientists from reputed institutes across India are involved with VMSRF as collaborators. VMSRF has about 20 national and global patents to its credit as well and have quite a few technology transfers to its credit.