Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences is the mentor institute for NIPER,Hajipur-Vaishali. It is a Premier Research Institute of Indian Council of Medical Research, under administrative control of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. The Institute is involved in Kala-azar and Biomedical research, a disease of national importance and was included with the aegis of lCMRin 1981. The Institute is engaged in research on disease of national importance and biological problems of global interest, employing sophisticated state-of-the-art technology in keeping with the rapid and unprecedented momentum that life science research has gained globally over the last 30 years. The Institute is one of the major Research Institute in India which initiated, right from its inception, multi-disciplinary concerted efforts for conducting basic research on infectious disease, specifically Leishmaniasis and HIV,along with the development of technologies for the diagnosis,immunoprophylaxis and chemotherapy of the disease. Important institutional research programmes also inclu.dedrug discovery against Leishmaniasis.