BIRAC E-YUVA 2026

BIRAC fellowship and research grant for undergraduate teams (₹2.5 lakh + ₹7,500/quarter/student) and PG/PhD Innovation Fellows (up to ₹50,000/month + ₹5 lakh/year) building commercialisable biotech innovations. Deadline 31 Oct 2026.

E-YUVA (Empowering Youth for Undertaking Value Added Innovative Translational Research) is BIRAC’s scheme to promote applied, need-oriented entrepreneurial innovation among young students and researchers, under the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.

Two categories

This 4th call is anchored at nine recently established EYCs (Solapur, Kashmir, Bathinda, Satna, Ajmer, Kannur, Solan, Pasighat, SKUAST-K Srinagar), with mentoring via BioNEST bioincubators.

Domains: Healthcare & life sciences, diagnostics, medical devices, drugs & vaccines, agri-biotech, industrial biotechnology, bioinformatics, waste management, sanitation, clean energy, and AI/IoT/automation applied to these areas.

IP generated during the fellowship rests with the innovators.