Genome Valley

Subject: Current Affairs

Context: Telangana health minister talked about Hyderabad as the vaccine capita citing foreign envoys and Indian PM’s visit to the Genome valley.

Concept:

It is India’s first systematically developed R&D cluster in Hyderabad.
It houses over 150 Companies, making it the country’s largest cluster of multi-tenanted lab space infrastructure in a single location.
It is a perfect blend of knowledge parks, special economic zones, multi-tenanted wet laboratories, incubation facilities, office spaces along with outstanding support facilities
It houses company like Bharat Biotech which recently also developed Covaxin vaccine for Corona virus.