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Shimla, January 7
The partnership between the Department of Ayurveda, Himachal Pradesh, and Frankfurt Biotechnology Innovation Centre (FIZ), Germany, for research in the field of ayurgenomics and ayurnutrigenomics is yet to move beyond paper work. “The collaboration is at standstill due to the pandemic. We will contact the Germans once the situation improves,” said Ayurveda Director DK Rattan.
An MoU was signed between the two institutes on the sidelines of the Global Investors’ Meet in Dharamsala in November 2019. Prior to that in June, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur had visited Frankfurt and signed a generic MoU with FIZ.
With the Chief Minister showing interest in the potential of the collaboration, things moved rather quickly in the beginning. By November, a working group, comprising professors and lecturers from Rajiv Gandhi Postgraduate Ayurvedic College, Paprola, was formed and it was given the mandate to follow-up with FIZ and identify specific collaborative pr