National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR), Bengaluru

The broad objective of the National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR), Bengaluru, are to sustain and develop a national research data-base on cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (CVD), and stroke through recent advances in electronic information technology with a national collaborative network, so as to undertake aetiological, epidemiological, clinical and control research in these areas. The primary focus of centre includes established nationwide data-base for cancer through the National Cancer Registry Programme and the Cancer Atlas Project. The secondary focus is to facilitate and coordinate research activities by collaborating centres towards epidemiological and clinical studies in diabetes, CVD and stroke.