IISER Pune is now a member of the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium). This places IISER Pune in the league of 20 of the major mouse genetics centres worldwide and adds tremendous value to IISER Pune's research capabilities. 

 

IMPC was set up about 10 years back to build on the efforts of the International Knock-out Mouse Consortium (IKMC) to produce knock-out mice. This has since become a valuable resource for the scientific community in basic scientific research as well as generating new models for human diseases. The IMPC's goal is to harness the major world-wide mouse research programmes and infrastuctures and thereby provide the wider research community with a long-lasting resource of mammalian gene function information.

 

This membership will provide IISER Pune access to transgenic and knockout lines and promote ways to share information and resources with the scientific community across India.