The Centre for Biotechnology was established in 1987 in Anna University with a financial support from Department of Biotechnology, Delhi, University Grants Commission, Delhi and Anna University with an objective:

• To provide educational and training facilities in different areas of Biotechnology
• To carry out fundamental research in the frontier areas of Biotechnology and
• To promote research and consultancy activities in the development of various areas of Biotechnology.

Facilities Available at CBT

The Administrative building is located in the Main Campus, besides to it a separate Academic Complex is situated exclusively to offer teaching programmes for the B.Tech.& M.Tech. Biotechnology,B.Tech.& M.Tech.Food Technology and B.Tech. & M.Tech. pharmacutical Technology.

The centre has a well defined independent building of about 1000 sq. meters at Taramani Campus with facilities for carrying out research in various areas of biotechnology, housing modern infrastructure to conduct work in Bioprocess technology, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Immunology, etc.