{"id":53707,"date":"2025-07-07T15:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=53707"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:04:05","slug":"national-biobank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-biobank\/","title":{"rendered":"National Biobank"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>National Biobank<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><b>National Biobank <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will serve as the backbone of a <\/span><b>nationwide cohort study<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, collecting comprehensive genomic, lifestyle, and clinical data from 10,000 individuals across India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>National Biobank Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science &amp; Technology inaugurated the state-of-the-art Phenome India &#8220;National Biobank&#8221; at the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About National Biobank<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will serve as the backbone of a <\/span><b>nationwide cohort study<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, collecting comprehensive genomic, lifestyle, and clinical data from 10,000 individuals across India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is tailored to <\/span><b>capture the country\u2019s unique diversity<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014across geography, ethnicity, and socio-economic backgrounds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>It <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is designed to be a long-term, data-rich study tracking the health trajectories of individuals over several years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will help scientists uncover disease patterns, gene-environment interactions, and response to therapies\u2014all within the Indian context.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is launched under the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/phenome-india-project\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Phenome India Project.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers believe the initiative will aid <\/span><b>early diagnosis, improve therapeutic targeting<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and bolster the fight against complex diseases such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular ailments, and rare genetic disorders.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Facts about Phenome India Project<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is officially named <\/span><b>Phenome India-CSIR Health Cohort Knowledgebase<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (PI-CheCK) is an initiative launched by the <\/span><b>Council of Scientific and Industrial Research<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (CSIR) on December 7, 2023.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The main objective of the project is to <\/span><b>develop India-specific risk prediction models for cardio-metabolic<\/b> <b>diseases<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including diabetes, liver diseases, and cardiac diseases.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>India\u2019s first-ever pan-India longitudinal health monitoring<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> study focused specifically on cardio-metabolic health.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants include around 10,000 individuals\u2014primarily CSIR employees, pensioners, and their spouses\u2014from across 17 states and 24 cities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collected data includes clinical questionnaires, lifestyle and dietary habits, anthropometric measurements, imaging and scanning data, and extensive biochemical and molecular data.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2142726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PIB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Biobank will serve as the backbone of a nationwide cohort study, collecting comprehensive genomic, lifestyle, and clinical data from 10,000 individuals across India. 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