The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has announced a new initiative called “First in the World Challenge”.
- The initiative aims to encourage Indian scientists to come up with innovative ideas for finding solutions to difficult health problems.
- The scheme proposes to foster novel, out of the box, futuristic ideas, new knowledge generation, discovery / development of breakthrough health technologies (vaccines, drugs/ therapeutics, diagnostics, interventions etc.), which has never been thought, tested or tried in the world till date.
