ICAR CIFE YP II CRISPR Recruitment 2026

ICAR CIFE YP II CRISPR Recruitment 2026: Overview

ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education (ICAR-CIFE) is hiring a Young Professional-II for a contractual research assignment in Mumbai. The post belongs to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research project on vaccines and diagnostics, focusing on an artificial intelligence and machine learning guided CRISPR approach for point-of-care diagnosis and gene-deletion vaccines against fish pathogens. You would join a project that connects fish health research and genome-editing technology.

Service Conditions and Caveats

• Project appointment: This is a temporary engagement tied to the research project. It ends on 31 March 2028 or when the project ends, whichever happens first.
• Service rules: ICAR guidelines govern the tenure and service conditions for the Young Professional post. Your appointment will follow those project-engagement rules.
• Workplace: Your place of work will be ICAR-CIFE, Mumbai. The interview arrangements do not change the stated workplace.
• Other work: The application declaration says you must have written permission from the project principal investigator before taking up other work during the project engagement.
• Final authority: The Director of ICAR-CIFE, Mumbai has the final decision on matters covered by this recruitment.

Application Submission Notes

Send your application by email to megha.bedekar@cife.edu.in or jeena@cife.edu.in. The notification includes the Young Professional-II application format for this project.

The notice describes a hybrid interview at ICAR-CIFE, Panch Marg, Off Yari Road, Versova, Andheri West, Mumbai 400061, starting at 11:00 AM. Its detailed instructions also refer to online invitations: if invited online, join 10 minutes before your scheduled time and wait for the administrator to admit you.

The attached form contains an older age-reference date that does not match the recruitment year. Ask the institute to clarify that entry when completing your form; the notice does not establish a current age cut-off date.