Regional Medical Research Centre, Dibrugarh | |
Type: | Education and Medical research |
Free Label: | Acronym |
Free: | RMRC |
Director: | Dr. Kanwar Narain |
City: | Dibrugarh |
State: | Assam |
Country: | India |
Coor: | 27.4727°N 94.9828°W |
Campus: | Urban |
Affiliations: | Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) |
Regional Medical Research Centre, NE region(RMRC, The International Centre of Excellence) is one of the six regional centres of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and is located in Dibrugarh city at Lahowal. It covers the most remote and less developed, eight states of the north-eastern region of India and is responsible for carrying out Biomedical Research in the region. It was established in 1982 and runs with intramural grant from ICMR and extramural ad hoc projects from different funding agencies.
This premier Medical Research institute has been recognized as an "International Centre of Excellence" by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and Washington University of USA.
The institute, in collaboration with Centre for Development of Advance Computing (CDAC), Pune, has been awarded the "MoSQuIT – mBillionth SAARC Countries Award 2013" recognized by The Grand Jury of The mBillionth Award South Asia as an Award Winner for the year 2013 for inventing disease surveillance system for malaria using mobile platform.[1]