Chandigarh University has been envisioned to emerge as a globally recognized universitywith a mission to create academic environment conducive for research, consultancy and innovation based projects. With this objective in mind and to provide adequate research guidance and resources University Centre for Research & Development (UCRD) has been established right in the first year ofthe inception ofthe University. The UCRD is devoted to coordinating research & consultancy activities in collaboration with industries. UCRD provides research facilities through its state-of-the-art laboratories such as Additive manufacturing lab, Flexible manufacturing system lab, SEM & XRD Lab, Molecular Biology Lab and Genetics Lab