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Amrita has over 12 years of experience in biogenic nanostructures processing for applications in wound management and infection control. Another area of her research is isolation and characterization of biomolecules for potential antibacterial application against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Dr. Archana Ghatak has five years of experience in teaching Enzymology and eight years of experience of teaching Metabolic Pathways in School of Biotechnology, KIIT deemed to be University. Alongside teaching she is also involved in research on biological
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Dr Gupta completed her doctoral studies at IGIB and University of Delhi in 2008 and worked diligently for understanding the role of immune cells in diseases and homeostasis. She gained a vast experience during her postdoctoral tenure while working at
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Dr. Bindhani has more than 18 years of teaching experiences and more than 15 years of research experiences in the different fields of Life Sciences & Nano biotechnology. Presently, he has been working as Associate Professor-I in the School of
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Biswadeep Das has several years of experience in biomedical research and teaching UG and PG students of biology. After post-graduating from Bangalore University, Biswadeep conducted his PhD program under Indian Council of Medical Research in the genetics and evolutionary biology
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Dr. Debee Prasad Sahoo received his PhD degree in Life Science from Assam University Silchar. He carried out his PhD research work at Dept. of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati. After obtaining PhD, he was awarded with National Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Dr. Mandal has eight years of teaching and twenty years of research experience. He earned his Ph. D (Chemistry) from CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India and got postdoctoral training at several reputed institutes (Mayo clinic, M D Anderson
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"Dr. Dipanwita Deb has obtained her Ph.D. in the research area of Algal Biotechnology from the Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. After qualifying GATE, she completed her M. Tech. from the Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering,
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Gargi Dey obtained her PhD (2001) in Agricultural & Food Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Post Doc (2002-2005) CSIR Research Associate at Agricultural & Food Engg Dept, IIT-Kharagpur.
She was an Assistant Professor (2005-2014) at Jaypee
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Prof. Gopal C. Kundu has obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Bose Institute, Kolkata, India (1989). He did his post-doctoral work at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, University of Colorado, University of Wyoming, and the National Institutes of Health in USA
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Gopal Chowdhary has obtained his master in Botany and M. Phil from Department of Botany from University of Delhi. He has a Ph.D. in plant Biotechnology. Thereafter he continued as post-doctoral fellow at University of Stavanger, Norway. He has about
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Dr. Harekrishna Panigrahi conducts research in the area of polymer science and engineering, with an emphasis on thermoplastic elastomers, new generation nanomaterials, and nanofillers for polymers, as well as polymer blends and nanocomposites. In 2012, he earned a B.Tech. in
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Dr. Janeka Gartia is a researcher in the field of Biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Bio-NMR) spectroscopy, with a specific focus on development and implementation of high-resolution NMR techniques for studying the structure, function, and dynamics of proteins. He received his
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K. Sony Reddy joined as an Assistant Professor at School of Biotechnology of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology on January 2016; and has been involved in teaching Immunology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry to Masters students. He has worked on developing
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Dr Nikhil has more than 13 years of research experience working in the field of molecular biology, cell biology and cancer biology. He obtained his PhD from Department of Biotechnology, IIT Roorkee in the year 2015. Afterwards he moved to
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Lopamudra Ray obtained her PhD in Environmental Biotechnology in 2012 from KIIT University. She continued to work as post doctoral research scientist at School of Biotechnology, KIIT university looking into Characterization of Benthic as well as Littoral Microbial community of
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Our group is mainly working on synthesis and characterization of several new biomaterials (such as hydrogels, nanocomposites, etc) and aim to apply these materials for biomedical applications. At present we are synthesizing different natural polymeric compound-based hydrogels in combination with
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"After completion of Bachelor degree in Computer Science & Engineering (BE) in 2002, I spent few years in teaching profession in different engineering colleges for Computer Science subject. In 2012, I got an opportunity to pursue full time two years
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Mrunmay Kumar Giri has six years of experience in teaching and research after PhD. Throughout his academic career, he received many scholarships to continue his study. He holds a master’s degree in Biotechnology from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
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Dr. Suar's group work on Salmonella Typhimurium (STm) and Salmonella Enteritidis (SEn) infection biology in Streptomycin pre-treated mouse model especially looking at identification of new virulence factors of SEn through comparative genome wide screening approach; development of recombinant and safe
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Dr. Misra received her Master’s Degree from Banaras Hindu University and PhD in Life Sciences from Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR); CSIR-IMMT and Post Doctorate fellowship from Science and Engineering Research Board,DST Government of India. Her research focuses
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Naresh Chandra Bal has been a biology enthusiast since childhood, became focused on organismal physiology during his master’s degree in physiology from the School of Life Sciences, Sambalpur University in 1997. To add structural knowledge to his physiological understanding, he
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Prabhat Kumar Rout began his career in education as a Mathematics faculty in Odisha +2 Science College, Bhubaneswar in 2005. Before joining the KIIT University in 2008, he was in Royal School of Management and Technology, where he used to
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"Dr. Preeti is a highly experienced researcher and educator, with over 11 years of experience in the field. She completed her PhD in Biochemistry and Structural Biology from the Department of Biotechnology at IIT Roorkee in 2012 Following her
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"After finishing a Ph.D. in physics (Specialization: Soft Condensed Matter) in 2005 from IGCAR, Kalpakkam, Dr. Mohanty moved to Kyoto University, Japan as a Post-doctoral fellow. Then in the year of 2006, he moved to the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
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Dr. Rahul Modak has more than 18years of research experience in epigenetics, biochemistry, molecular and cell biology and infection biology. His researh group is studying epigenetic regulation of host-pathogen interactions during bacterial infection. They are actively pursuing detailed function analysis
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Dr. Mahapatra has more than 12 years of experience in teaching at the post graduate and undergraduate level. He has completed his PhD in Computer-Aided Drug Design and his area of research is comparative genomics, molecular modeling and chemo-informatics.

Dr. Ritesh Pattnaik received his doctoral degree from National Rice Research Institute (NRRI) - Utkal University in 2018. His doctoral work was emphasized on “Microbially mediated cycling of iron in anoxic rice soils”. During his course of doctoral study, Dr.
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Dr. Sandeep Kumar Panda has been trained in different laboratories of ICAR, CSIR, IIT and the University of Johannesburg during his Doctoral and Post Doctoral research career. Research interest of Dr. Panda deliberates in the application of fermentation technology towards
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Dr. Sanjukta has 12 years of experience in bioinformatics and data analysis. She uses integrative computational and statistical methods to analyze genomics and transcriptomics data in order to understand the underlying mechanism of transcription and molecular pathways in tumors. Her
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Dr. Sankha Chakrabortty has done his PhD from NIT Durgapur in the year of 2017 as an DST INSPIRE FELLOW also successfully done his Post Doc work from CSIR-CMERI as a National Post Doc Fellow in the year of 2019.
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Dr Santosh Kumar is a plant biologist actively engaged in teaching and research activities in KIIT. He works in the area of silica deposition in plants and is currently handling two research projects as Principal Investigator awarded to him by
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Santoshi Mohanta is a material researcher by training and passion with more than 2 years of teaching and research experience in Chemical Engineering & Material Science with proficiency in Heat transfer, Mass transfer, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Plastics & Polymer Engineering,
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Sashikant Nayak has three years of experience in teaching and about eight years in research. Sashikant received his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Mathematics from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack and M.Sc. in Mathematics National Institute of Technology Rourkela. He received his Ph.D.
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Dr. Sasmita Nayak was awarded with M.B.B.S degree in the year 1995 and completed her internship in the year 1996 from S.C.B Medical College Hospital, Cuttack, Odisha, India. After moving to USA for higher studies, she was E.C.F.M.G certified in
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Dr Si has obtained his Master degree in chemistry from Ravenshaw College (Utkal University) and completed his PhD in Chemistry from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (Jadavpur University), Kolkata. He has an excellent track record throughout his academic
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Dr. Selvakumar Elangovan was graduated from the University of Madras in 2006 in the field of Biochemistry. Then, he did postdoctoral studies at New York Medical College, USA and Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, USA. He has studied the mechanisms
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Dr. Shampa M. Ghosh is an evolutionary biologist and her research focus is experimental evolution and evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-devo). She uses fruit flies for her research, and built up the first Drosophila research laboratory of Bhubaneswar at KIIT. She
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Dr. Shirsendu Banerjee has 3 years of teaching and research and 1 year of industry experience. Dr. Banerjee has previously worked in KL Education Foundation and was an Assistant Professor in Petroleum Engineering Department. Currently working as an Assistant
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Dr. Shraddha Dhal has a demonstrated history of working in the Education management industry, skilled in Research, Communication, Teaching, and Interpersonal Skills. She has presented papers at conferences, published articles and papers in journals of National & International repute, and
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A student of science , with 32 years of experience in biotechnology, with 12 biotechnology derived products in regulatory filing, with 23 patents, 32 international publications, and having three life saving products in ICU. One of the product technologies is
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Dr. Snehasish Mishra, Associate Professor, PhD (Life Sciences), of the School of Biotechnology, KIIT Deemed University has research exposure in the areas of microbiology, biotechnology, limnology, environmental biotechnology, renewable energy, bioprocess engineering and food sciences. He has more than two
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Dr. Soumya Ranjan Mohapatra graduated with a BTech in Biotechnology in 2012 from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu. Subsequently, in 2014 he obtained his Master’s degree in Molecular Biosciences with a major in Cancer Biology and
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Dr. Srinivas Patnaik earned his MSc in Biotechnology from Goa University and PhD from Institute of Life sciences, Bhubaneswar specialised in “Molecular Oncology”. Presently, Dr. Patnaik is working as an Professor and Dean in School of Biotechnology, KIIT University. Dr.
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Dr. Subrat Kumar completed his Ph.D from PGIMER, Chandigarh in Molecular Virology and has worked as Post Doc fellow in High Security Animal Disease laboratory (BSL4), Bhopal and University of Maryland, College Park, USA in understanding the molecular mechanism of
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Suraj currently leads Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering Lab at KIIT School of Biotechnology. He has more than 15 years of experience in processing of nanomaterials for water treatment, heterogeneous catalysis and biomedical applications. He works closely with chemical and mineral
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Dr. Suresh K. Verma is a scientist involved in the research and teaching activities in KIIT. He is engaged primarily with DBT builder project at KIIT school of biotechnology sponsored by Department of Biotechnology(DBT), Gov. of India. He works in
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Tithi Parija started her carrier as research scholar in 1997 after finishing her MSc. from Utkal University. She holds a PhD degree from Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar and received post doctoral fellowship from Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.
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Vishakha Raina completed her bachelor’s and master’s degree in zoology with a specialisation in cell and molecular biology at the University of Delhi. She also has a bachelors in education from University of Delhi. Later, she fulfilled her Ph.D. in
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