Foundation of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST) is a head logical research association in the north-east area, imagined and sustained by the Assam Science Society in its underlying years and was initiated by Nobel Laureate Dorothy C. Hodgkin on third November 1979. In this way, it was bolstered by the state govt. as its exclusive independent R&D establish till March 2009. The establishment was assumed control in March, 2009 by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India as one of its self-sufficient R&D found.