16 Years

5 Years

6 Months

B.Sc./SRNMN College of Applied Sciences/Kuvempu University/ 2005

M.Sc./ Department of PG Studies and Research in Biotechnology, Kuvempu University, 2007

Nitte (Deemed to be University)/2019

Plant Biotechnology, Biomolecules in Therapeutics, Nano materials & Drug Delivery

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6545-1983

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Life Member of The Indian Science Congress

1. Young South Asian Researcher on SCP Award at World Sustainable Development Summit 2016 held at the India Habitat Center and TERI university, New Delhi
2. National Topper in NPTEL courses Nanotechnology in Agriculture and Functional Genomics
3. Won Young Scientist Award for research presentation at the “3rd International Conference on Applications of Natural compounds, Nanomaterials, Oncolytics in Cancer Biology and Biotechnology (ICANNOCB-22)” organized by School of Life Sciences and Association of Cancer Education and Research (ACER), B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai, India in association with Purdue University, USA
4. Won Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Evaluation of Anti-cancer Activity of Mucuna pruriens against Human Colorectal Adenocarcinoma” in the track Pharmaceutical Biotechnology/Cancer Biology in the International Conference –NITTE Bio, Organized by the Department of Biotechnology Engineering, N.M.A.M. Institute of Technology-Nitte, during 19th & 20th November 2021.
5. Won First Prize for paper presentation at the online National Biotechnology Symposium – SymBiot’21 on October 16, 2021, hosted by the Department of Biotechnology, Manipal Institute of Technology in collaboration with the Institution of Engineers – Biotechnology, Manipal Chapter.
6. Won 2nd Prize (Cash Prize of Rs 25,000/-) at the Anveshana 2020 State Level Science Exhibition for the project titled “Nutritional Formulations from Mucuna pruriens”.
7. Won 2nd Prize at the for Poster presentation at a National Conference on Advances in Plant Biotechnology organized by Dayananadsagar University, Bengaluru on 28th January 2020.

Co-PI – Development of underutilized legume-millet synbiotic nutraceutical formulation in the mitigation of obesity and malnutrition – Department of Atomic Energy, Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, 2024-2027, Ongoing

1. Co-investigator for a BIRAC- SBIRI project grant of Rs. 5.36 lakhs on a project entitled “Development of Fusarium resistant banana cv Elakki bale through chemical mutagenesis of embryogenic cells and mass screening for resistance” in association with SM Plant Production Technologies, Bengaluru from January 2018 to October 2019.
2. Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST) Grant of Rs 9000/- project title- Processing and Nutritional Evaluation of Proteinaceous Product from Underutilized Legumes and Millets, April 2022, 45th series of Student Project Programme (SPP): 2021-22
3. Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST) Grant of Rs 6000/- project title- In vitro Propagation and Molecular Characterization of Santalum album, 39th series of Student Project Programme (SPP): 2015-16

AICTE Scheme for Promoting Interests, Creativity and Ethics among Students (SPICES) grant of Rs 1 Lakh for conducting student activities under the JAIVIK forum for a period between May 2021 to April.