- India’s first diabetes biobank has been set up in Chennai.
- Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in partnership with the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF) has established India’s first diabetes biobank in Chennai.
- This has been designed to collect, process, store, and distribute biological samples to advance diabetes research.
- This biobank will study the cause of diabetes and its unique pattern in India.
- The biobank contains blood samples from two major ICMR-funded studies.
From 2008 to 2020, the ICMR-India Diabetes (ICMR-INDIAB) study was conducted across States and Union Territories.