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the success DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY B iotechnology harnesses cellular and biomolecular processes to develop technologies and products that help improve our lives. It provides technologies to combat debilitating and rare diseases, feed the hungry with nutritious food and have safer and more efficient industrial manufacturing processes. Established in the year 2003, the Department offers: BTech Biotechnology MTech Biotechnology PhD In addition to the curriculum, the department also offers value-added certificate and one-credit courses to impart additional knowledge to the students. With the intellectual acumen of the members of faculty, the department has well equipped laboratory facilities to carry out academics and research like Biochemistry and Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Chemical Engineering Laboratory. Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory etc. The laboratories are equipped with major equipment in addition to basic instruments such as Continuous and Batch Fermenter, UV- Visible Spectrophotometers, UV-Transilluminator, HPLC, PCR, Thermal Cycler, Genepulsar and Lyophilizer, etc. It has also established Molecular Diagnostic and Clinical Bacteriology Lab, Bio- energy and Environmental Biotechnology, Venom Peptidomics, and Molecular Simulation Lab