New Delhi: Microsoft India has decided to provide financial support to IIT Delhi for making the early corona detection kit.
According to sources, IIT Delhi has confirmed that the two projects involve a detection assay and commercial process for manufacturing antigens for ELISA. The two projects have already got a nod from ICMR.
The first project is an ICMS approved probe free real-time PCR-based COVID-19 detection assay developed at the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences -KSBS, IIT Delhi. The technology is affordable, probe-free, and easily scalable.
Apart from this, Microsoft India would also provide support to another project which is a collaboration between IIT Delhi and National Chemical Laboratory – Pune. The aim is to develop an ELISA based diagnostic serological assay against COVID-19, sources said.
Speaking to ETV Bharat, Prof. V Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi said, "Microsoft India has time and again associated with IIT Delhi for the betterment of research, and this contribution to projects focused on COVID-19 detection research shall help the nation combat these difficult times. Timely detection can prove to be the key to curb the spread of the virus, and I am glad our institute is devising means to achieve it."
"Research is one of the most important aspects of COVID-19 and we are proud of IIT Delhi that it has successfully developed the low-cost high-quality testing solution using one-step RT-PCR assay and working on ELISA methodology. IIT Delhi happens to be the first academic institute successful in offering a test that has been approved by ICMR," Prof Rao added.
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