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Rajani Kanta Mahapatra
School of Biotechnology
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Rajani Kanta Mahapatra

Associate Professor

School of BiotechnologyRegular
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Dr. Mahapatra has more than 12 years of experience in teaching at the postgraduate 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. Besides this he also works on the development of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and their study using AI-ML concepts. Dr. Mahapatra is a recipient of several grants from ICMR, ANRF(CRG & MATRICS), MoES-DOM and was a SERB-SIRE fellow at University of California, Riverside Campus.

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Research Interests

AI/ML in Health informatics, Computer-Aided Drug Design

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Educational Qualifications

M.Sc & PhD in Life Sciences from Sambalpur University

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Administrative Responsibilities

Faculty in charge KSBT website, Members of examination committee.

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Course Expertise

Computaional and Theoretical Biology

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Awards and Achievements

  • SERB International Research Experience (SIRE) fellowship by DST, Govt. of India.
  • Awarded travel grant (DBT/CTEP/02/201100924) from Department of Biotechnology, Government of India to participate in InCOB-2011 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Best oral presentation award for biological sciences in the national seminar held on the occasion of 22nd, 19th Odisha Bigyan ‘O’ Paribesh Congress (2021 & 2017) and 16th Odisha Bigyan Congress (2013).
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Projects and Collaborations

R and D Projects (Ongoing)

  • Development of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) registry and machine learning model for prediction of diabetic nephropathy using renal biomarkers and clinical data” sanctioned by ICMR. Amount: Rs. 21.71 lakhs.
  • Development of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) registry and AI (Artificial Intelligence) model for prediction of mortality in liver cirrhosis using hepatic biomarkers and clinical data” sanctioned by ANRF. Amount: Rs. 20.95 lakhs.
  • A deep learning-based genome mining strategy for identification of biosynthetic/ chemotherapeutic gene clusters in the marine actinobacteria Salinispora and its validation study through data analytic approach” sanctioned by MoES. Amount: Rs. 11.88 lakhs.
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