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Indian Council of Medical Research
India's apex medical research council, which runs the National Cancer Registry Programme, a cancer prevention institute and a network of research institutes, and sets national research and ethics policy.
Also called: ICMR
Overview
The ICMR traces its origin to the Indian Research Fund Association of 1911 and was reconstituted under its present name in 1949. It is the apex body for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research in India, with 28 permanent institutes and a budget of about 4,200 crore rupees in 2026-27 across all fields.
For cancer it matters in three ways: it funds and hosts the National Cancer Registry Programme (through the National Institute of Noncommunicable Disease Epidemiology in Bengaluru, formerly NCDIR), whose reports estimate India's burden at about 1.39 million new cases in 2020 and 1.46 million in 2022; it runs the National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research at Noida and a Centre for Cancer Pathology in Delhi; and it issues the national ethical guidelines and research consortia (including the India Cancer Research Consortium) that shape how Indian trials are run.
Location
New Delhi, IN
Type
government
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#400 · 14 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 14 from 7 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-15.
Matched to Indian Council of Medical Research, including child institutions. 165 works · 2,865 citations · 67% open access · 4% clinical trials · 4% reviews.
Oncology works per year
372022
352023
322024
312025
302026
Most works
- Prashant Mathur11 works
- Anita Nath8 works
- Showket Hussain8 works
- Krishnan Sathishkumar6 works
- Roopa Hariprasad5 works
- Thilagavathi Ramamoorthy4 works
- Kavitha Dhanasekaran4 works
- Geetha R. Menon4 works
- Meesha Chaturvedi4 works
- Priyanka Das4 works
Most cited
- National Cancer Registry Programme
- ICMR-NICPR Noida
- National ethical guidelines
- Research funding and consortia
Prashant Mathur
Director, ICMR-National Institute of Noncommunicable Disease Epidemiology (formerly NCDIR), Bengaluru
Cancer registriesCancer epidemiologyNoncommunicable disease surveillance
Directs the institute that runs India's cancer registries and is first author of the national report estimating 1.39 million new cancers in 2020.
Shalini Singh
Director, ICMR-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research (NICPR), Noida
Cancer preventionTobacco controlPublic health research
Public health researcher who directs ICMR-NICPR in Noida, the Indian Council of Medical Research's national institute for cancer prevention and research.
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