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National Biobank inaugurated at the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB)

Posted 07 Jul 2025

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The newly launched facility marks a significant stride towards building India’s own longitudinal health database.

  • It will enhance India’s capabilities in precision medicine and biomedical research.

About National Biobank

  • Launched under: Phenome India Project
    • It is based on the UK Biobank model, but customized for Indian diversity.
  • Purpose: It will aid in early diagnosis, improve therapeutic targeting, and bolster the fight against complex diseases such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular ailments, and rare genetic disorders.
    • It will generate high-resolution data that can power AI-driven diagnostics and gene-guided therapies.
  • Coverage: It will collect comprehensive genomic, lifestyle, and clinical data from 10,000 individuals

About Phenome India Project

  • It is officially called as Phenome India-CSIR Health Cohort Knowledgebase (PI-CheCK).
  • Launched by: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 2023. 
  • Objective: It is designed to be a long-term, data-rich study tracking the health trajectories of individuals over several years. 

What is Phenome? 

  • Phenome is the entire set of phenotypes in a cell, tissue, organ, organism or species.
  • Phenotype refers to the observable physical characteristics of an organism
    • These include the organism's appearance, development, and behavior. 
    • An organism's phenotype is determined by its genotype (set of genes the organism carries) as well as by environmental influences upon these genes.
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