National Facility for Gene Function in Health & Disease: what it will do, what it has

What is the News?

The National Facility for Gene Function in Health and Disease(NFGFHD) was inaugurated in Pune.

What is the National Facility for Gene Function in Health and Disease(NFGFHD)?

Located at: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER),Pune.

Purpose: It is a one-of-its-kind large facility providing a timely supply of animal models to researchers studying a range of diseases from cancer to diabetes.

What was the need for this facility?

With a growing zoonotic disease burden on human health, there is an increased urgency to perform disease studies based on physiological evidence and methods. 

Since human trials alone cannot suffice for such studies, the need for having experimental setups using animal models has become imperative. 

Hence, animal, plant and microorganism-based models are now being significantly deployed to study diseases in a time-bound manner.

Source: The post is based on the article “National Facility for Gene Function in Health & Disease: what it will do, what it has” published in Indian Express on 28th May 2022.