The Uttar Pradesh State Institute of Forensic Sciences, Lucknow, and the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to facilitate better training to the students.
Speaking on the occasion, Director of UPSIFS, Lucknow, Dr GK Goswami, said that this important MoU would lead to academic activities between the two institutions, cooperation in research activities, training of professionals from various organisations, to fulfill the academic objectives with mutual consent of the faculty and students of both the institutions.
“With this, the professors and students of both the institutions will be able to establish new records in this field with the cooperation of each other. Along with the research between the two institutions, research work on various social and judicial subjects will also get a further boost,” he added.
Dr Goswami informed that the main objective of the MoU is to establish close relationship and functional coordination between UPSIFS-Lucknow and CDFD-Hyderabad for mutual cooperation for advancement of knowledge of faculty, scholars and students.
This MoU will provide the students with DNA profiling services, and DNA profiling in cases forwarded by law-enforcement agencies and the judiciary of state and federal governments related to murder, sexual assault, paternity, maternity, child swapping, body identification, organ transplantation, etc.
There will be an opportunity to work and learn on subjects like profiling to develop skilled human resources to meet the needs of the country. Research papers, patents and products of both the organisations and the results of joint research will be jointly shared.
Dr Goswami informed that UPSIFS-Lucknow and CDFD-Hyderabad will provide further facilities to the faculty members, scientists or experts of both the institutions by encouraging them to explore and prepare joint proposals on important areas for funding.
There will also be mutual agreement on funding proposals on technical activities and grant sharing between UPSIFS-Lucknow and CDFD-Hyderabad. The research, interdisciplinary PhD involving forensic science, law and other sciences will be jointly supervised by faculty members from both UPSIFS-Lucknow and CDFD-Hyderabad.
Dr Goswami informed that the faculty members of each institute will be invited for important seminars, conferences and teaching at various levels.
Such collaboration will enable the research scholars and teaching faculty of both UPSIFS-Lucknow and CDFD-Hyderabad to explore the possibility of undertaking collaborative research work and also apply for funding from national and international agencies, government and other funding agencies.
With this MoU signed in Hyderabad, students and professors associated with UPSIFS will be able to benefit from the experiences of CDFD and research and will be able to promote research work in future.
On this occasion, Dr Sangeeta Mukhopadhyay, Director of DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics Center (CDFD), Dr Madhusudan Reddy and other senior scientists were present.