Landmark of Co-operations in yesteryears

• Cooperation towards the Indian 'Green Revolution'.

• Development of an anti-relapse anti-malarial compound jointly by Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) with US organizations.

• Collaboration between of the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa and Office of Naval Research on the Arabian Sea Tropic Dynamics.

• Involvement of Udaipur Solar Observatory as one of the six observation sites for the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) project managed by the National Solar Observatory, Tucson.

• Fabrication and supply of the muon tracking detector parts by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for the PHENIX collaboration experiment aimed at the search for quark-gluon plasma at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL in USA.

• Establishment of a solar test facility at the Solar Energy Centre of Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources near Gurgaon with the cooperation of the Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA.

• ISRO-DST and NASA-NOAA MOU for Research in Atmospheric Sciences was signed in 1997 for sharing of Indian and US meteorological data and collaborative research in the area of earth and atmospheric sciences.

• Indo-US Vaccine Action Program (VAP): The agencies involved in this program are Department of Biotechnology, Indian Council of Medical Research and Ministry of Health & Family Welfare from India and National Institute of Health and USAID from USA.

• Contraceptive and Reproductive Health Research: The participating agencies in this initiative, which was taken up in November 1997 are, from the Indian side, Indian Council of Medical Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (with Department of Biotechnology as the nodal agency), and on the US side, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development and USAID.

• Establishment of Indo-US Science & Technology Forum in 2000 with Endowment of over $ 7 million. The Forum activities are managed with the earning of annual interest and recurring matching grant from the Indian Government to the tune of about $ 1 million/year.