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Central Drug Research Institute

Type	Autonomous\|Govt\|CSIR
Established	1951
Budget	₹700 crore (US$88 million) (2021–2022) ^[1]
Director	Dr.Radha Rangarajan
Location	Lucknow , Lucknow , India
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.cdri.res.in/

The Central Drug Research Institute is a multidisciplinary research laboratory in Lucknow, India, employing scientific personnel from various areas of biomedical sciences. Dr. Radha Rangarajan, An alumnus of Stanford University, University of Michigan, and Rockefeller University,She has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard School of Public Health, is the incumbent director of the Central Drug Research Institute.

History

The Central Drug Research Institute was one of the first laboratories to be established in India right after its independence. It is among the thirty nine laboratories that are functioning under the aegis of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India. The research institute was formally inaugurated on 17 February 1951 by the prime minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru.^[2]

Divisions

For administrative and scientific purposes the institute's manpower has been grouped into 17 research and development divisions and several divisions providing technical and scientific support. The following divisions of are involved in research and development: