Job Description
Multiple vacancies at CDRI 2023. With the aim to expand and strengthen the areas of Neurobiology, Virology, Parasite Biology, Endocrinology, Human Genetics, Analytical Biochemistry, Computational Chemistry, Medicinal Process Chemistry, Statistics, IPR & HR Management, the Institute is looking for enthusiastic, talented young researchers / professionals with brilliant academic record, proven scientific achievements and zeal to conduct research as per the mandate of the Institute aligned with National Missions.
| Organization | CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute |
| Post Name | Scientific Administrative Assistant, Project Associate-I, Project Associate-II, Project Scientist-I, JRF(Project), SRF (Project), Research Associate (Project), Senior Project Associate |
| Job Location | Lucknow |
| Last Date | 06.11.2023 |
| Official Website | https://cdri.res.in/ |
Job Title/Position:
- Scientific Administrative Assistant
- Project Associate-I
- Project Associate-II
- Project Scientist-I
- JRF(Project)
- SRF (Project)
- Research Associate (Project)
- Senior Project Associate
No. of Post(s):
Multiple vacancies
Job Overview:
Job vacancy for Chemistry, Pharmacy
Job Location:
Lucknow
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Vacancies at CDRI
Scientific Administrative Assistant: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): Graduation (B.Sc. in Life Sciences or B.Pharm.)
Experience Required: Experience of 1 year in lab.
Monthly Compensation: Rs.18,000+18% HRA
Upper Age limit: 50
Title & Tenure of the project: CSIR (MLP2034) “Novel and Integrative Approaches towards Discovery of Small Molecule Therapeutics for Healthy Ageing (NISTHA) .” Tenure upto – 31.03.2025
Project Associate-I: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): M.Sc. in Biological/Life Sciences with CSIR-UGC NET including Lectureship or Gate qualified.
Experience Required: Three years of research experience in Cancer Biology.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 31,000+18% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: CSIR (HCP0040) “PAN CSIR CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAM Making Cancer Care affordable Empowering Women’s health: Focusing on Breast and Gynecological Cancers of Indian Relevance” Tenure up to – 31.03.2026
Project Associate-I: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s):Master’s degree in Microbiology/ Biotechnology with NET/GATE qualified.
Experience Required: Experience in microbiology, animal cell culture, and molecular biology techniques.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 31,000+18% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: CSIR (MLP2033) “Multipronged studies on persistence and drug resistance in mycobacteria.” Tenure up to – 31.03.2025
Project Associate-I: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): Master’s degree in Life Sciences/ Biotechnology with NET/GATE/GPAT or any other National Eligibility Test-CSIR-UGC NET including lectureship.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 31,000+18% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: CSIR (MLP2044) “Understanding the role of Wat1, a WD repeat protein in regulating the function of PIKK family proteins in fission yeast S. pombe.” Tenure up to – 31.03.2024
Project Associate-I: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): MSc in Life Sciences with any National exam qualified like, JRF/ NET/GATE or equivalent national exam.
Experience Required: Experience in Virology, Protein purification, Tissue Culture.
Monthly Compensation: Rs.31,000+16% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs. (IHP0025)
Title & Tenure of the project: “Design and Development of Pyrazoloindole derivatives as novel potential drug candidates for treatment of Dengue infection.” Tenure up to – 07.09.2024
Project Associate-I: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): MSc in Life Sciences with any National exam qualified JRF/ NET/GATE or equivalent national exam qualified.
Experience Required: Experience in the mammalian tissue culture work. Experience in small animal handling.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 31,000+18% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: CSIR (HCP0041) “Discovery & Pre-clinical Development of Antivirals for COVID-19 & Other diseases” Tenure upto – 31.03.2025
Project Associate-I: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): Master’s degree or equivalent in any branch of life sciences/Microbiology/ Biochemistry with NET/GATE or equivalent national exam qualified.
Experience Required: One year of experience in animal handling, peptide and /or mammalian cell culture
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 31,000+16% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: SERB, DST (GAP0444) “Immunomodulatory properties of cryptic host defence peptides against brain residing microglia cells and their potential implications in neurodegenerative diseases.” Tenure upto – 28.09.2026
Project Associate-II: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): M.Sc. in Life Sciences + two years lab experience with NET qualified.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 35,000+ 16% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: DBT (GAP0443) “In vivo validation and dose optimization of the standardized fraction of Desmodium gangeticum for chronic kidney disease-induced osteoporosis.” Tenure upto – 05.09.2025
Project Scientist-I: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): Ph.D. in Biological Science OR M.Tech. in Biotechnology/ Bioinformatics/ Computational Biology
Experience Required: 1 year research experience in the area of Molecular Modeling/ Computer-Aided Drug Design. Experience in Computer-Aided Drug Design particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI/ML) driven approaches/ developing bioinformatics or related software tools/ databases with proven record of publications and/or software/ database development.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 56,000/- +16% HRA p.m. with 5% increment for every two years of experience.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: DBT (GAP 0384) “Establishment of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Centre at CSIR-CDRI Innovation in Drug Discovery Research using Bioinformatics and Computational biology-BIC at CSIR, Central Drug Research Institute Lucknow” Tenure up to – 13.10.2026
Project Associate-I: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): M.Sc. in Chemistry with NET-LS/ GATE qualified.
Experience Required: Experience in organic synthesis.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 31,000+18% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: CSIR (HCP0040) “PAN CSIR CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAM Making Cancer Care affordable Empowering Women’s health: Focusing on Breast and Gynecological Cancers of Indian Relevance” Tenure up to – 31.03.2026
Project Associate-I: One (1)
Educational Qualification(s): M.Pharm in Pharmaceutics/ Pharmaceutical Chemistry or equivalent with NET/GATE/GPAT qualified. OR M.Sc. Analytical Chemistry/ Pharmaceutical Chemistry with NET/GATE/GPAT qualified.
Experience Required: Experience in clinical pharmacokinetics.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 31,000+18% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: CSIR (HCP0047) “Phenome India-CSIR Health Cohort Knowledgebase.” Tenure upto – 31.03.2027
Project Associate-I: One (1)
Educational Qualification(s): M.Sc. in Chemistry/ Pharmaceutical Chemistry with NET/GATE/GPAT qualified OR M.Pharm. Medicinal Chemistry with NET/GATE/GPAT qualified.
Experience Required: Experience in organic synthesis.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 31,000+18% HRA
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: CSIR (MLP2034) “Novel and Integrative Approaches towards Discovery of small Molecule Therapeutics for Healthy Ageing (NISTHA).” Tenure upto – 31.03.2025
Project Associate-I: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): M.Sc./M.Pharm. in Chemistry/Pharmaceutical Medicinal Chemistry/ Phyto Chemistry with NET/GATE qualified
Experience Required: Ph.D. in Natural product/Medicinal/ Organic Chemistry.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 31,000+18% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs
.Title & Tenure of the project: Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Govt. of India through NIPER, Kolkata (GAP0430) “Centre for Marine therapeutics.” Tenure up to – 31.03.2028
Project Associate-I: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): M.Sc. in Chemistry with NET-LS or GATE qualified.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 31,000+16% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: SERB, DST (GAP0442) “Transition metal-catalyzed enantioselective C-X bond formation.” Tenure up to – 20.08.2026
JRF(Project): Three (03)
Educational Qualification(s): M.Sc. in Chemistry/Pharmaceutical Chemistry with NET-LS/GATE/ GPAT or National level exam qualified.
Experience Required: Some Research Experience.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 31,000+18% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 28 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: DST (GAP0439) “Creation of Nodal Centers for development and production of key starting materials, intermediates and other raw materials that are required by Health Care Sector.” Tenure up to – 30.03.2024
Project Associate-II: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): M.Sc. in Chemistry + two year experience in the Natural Products area with NET/GATE qualified.
Experience Required: Two years research experience on isolation and quantification of natural products from the medicinal plants; Experience on handling HPLC and LCMS.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 35,000+ 16% HRA
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: DBT (GAP0382) “Bioprospecting of Marine microbial diversity for various products” under the Marine Bioresource and Biotechnology Network Programme. Tenure upto – 27.09.2024
SRF (Project): One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): M.Sc. in Chemistry + two years research experience with NET/GATE qualified.
Experience Required: Experience in synthetic Chemistry.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 38,840/- p.m. (HRA is included in the monthly emoluments)
Upper Age limit: 30 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: DBT (GAP0348) “Development of small molecular antivirus against Chikungunya and Japanese Encephalitis Virus.” Tenure up to – 27.02.2024
Research Associate (Project): One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): Ph.D in Organic Chemistry with proven track record of Publication and Patent Application.
Experience Required: Experience in development of chemical libraries for screening.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 58,280/- p.m. (HRA is included in the monthly emoluments)
Upper Age limit: 40 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: DBT (GAP0348) “Development of small molecular antivirus against Chikungunya and Japanese Encephalitis Virus.” Tenure up to – 27.02.2024
Senior Project Associate: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry/ Chemistry with organic major) with four years research experience OR Ph.D. in Chemistry
Experience Required: The work of the thesis should be in the area of synthetic organic chemistry or medicinal chemistry as endorsed by research publications in peer-reviewed journal (as first author) or patent application filed. a) Experience in medicinal chemistry with the objective of preparing chemical libraries for biological activity following contemporary synthetic organic chemistry, b) Research publications in high impact peer reviewed journals, c) Knowledge about biochemical targets for neuropathic pain or the area of neurosciences and d) Good communication skills will be preferred. Applicants are required to make a 10 min presentation (not more than 5 slides) of their Ph.D work.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 42,000 + 18% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 40 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: SERB, DST (GAP0397) “Design and Synthesis of Biased Kappa Opioid receptor Agonists for treating chronic Pain” Tenure up to – 18.03.2025
Project Associate-I: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): M.Pharm/MS (Pharm) with NET/GATE/GPAT qualified.
Experience Required: Experience in area of pharmacokinetic study, bioanalysis, animal handling and analytical chemistry.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 31,000+ 18% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs. (IHP0021)
Title & Tenure of the project: “Preclinical Pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetic studies of CDRI candidate drugs, formulation and Phytopharmaceuticals.” Tenure upto – 31.03.2024
Project Associate-I: One (01)
Educational Qualification(s): M.Pharm./MS (Pharm) with GPAT qualified
Experience Required: Experience in the area of Formulation and Pharmaceutical Analysis.
Monthly Compensation: Rs. 31,000+ 18% HRA p.m.
Upper Age limit: 35 Yrs.
Title & Tenure of the project: CCRAS Ministry of AYUSH Govt. of India (CLP0006)“Pre-clinical development of Amalaki (Phyllanthus emblica Linn.) fruit through AYUSH route for adjunct therapy in tuberculosis to reduce anti-tubercular treatment (ATT) induced hepatotoxicity.” Tenure upto – 24.02.2025
Step by Step procedure for Engagement of Project Staff through online:
- The candidate will apply online through the link.
- All Received online applications will be screened by duly constituted Standing Screening Committee. The Standing Screening Committee may fix different set of criteria to short-list the candidates as per the project requirement. The Standing Screening Committee will screen all applications received for the specified project and recommended eligible candidates will be called for interview. In case of false information received through online application, the competent authority will cancel the candidature of the applicant and debar for attending the interview in future.
- Eligible candidates may be called for interview online through MS Team. However if any eligible candidate want to appear Offline / Physically, He/She may be allowed to appear for interview at CSIR- CDRI, Jankipuram Extension, Sitapur Road, Lucknow. Interview letter will be sent to them through e-mail intimating the date & time of Interview, link/reference of online mode, terms & conditions, if any. If Selected, the candidate will be allowed to the position only after verification of original certificates and correctness of other information.
- Based on the performance of the candidates and availability of suitable candidates, Standing Selection Committee may also recommend for empanelment of candidates for future engagement in above projects as and when need arises. The engagement process will be complete after the joining of the candidates.
General Conditions
- Age relaxation will be admissible to SC/ST/OBC/PWD & Women candidates as per CSIR/Funding Agency/ Govt. of India Guidelines.
- The date for determining age/qualification and experience shall be the last date of submission of online application.
- The above positions are purely temporary and co-terminus with the aforementioned projects. The engagement in these projects will not confer any right implicit or explicit on the candidate for consideration for regularization against any CSIR/CDRI post(s). The number of positions against the various projects can vary at the time of selection depending on the requirement of the institute.
- Position Code will be cancelled if funds are not available in the advertised concerned project.
- The Director, CSIR-CDRI has discretion to increase or decrease the number of positions or cancel the recruitment process at any stage.
- Interim queries will not be entertained.
Last Date for Registration & Submission of Online application: 06.11.2023 5:30 p.m.
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