The Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony for a Clinical Research Facility for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine (CRF) and National Bio-Safety Level-4 Containment Facility for Human Infectious Diseases (NBCF) was held at CCMB on November 3, 2007 at 12.05 p.m. Shri Kapil Sibal, the Hon’ble Union Minister for Science & Technology & Earth Sciences, Government of India will be the Guest of Honour.

The objectives of CRF would be to do basic research on cell based therapies and tissue engineering with specific applications for human diseases. The NBCF will carry out basic research on highly infectious and exotic microorganisms that can cause life threatening human diseases and for which no cure is available. The research at NBCF would specifically focus on developing new methods for the diagnosis and treatment of human infectious diseases