Padmaja Mohanty

Dr. Das received his PhD in Biotechnology and served as a Scientist at IBSD, DBT, and Government of India. He is founder and CEO of Valnizen which deals with regulatory documents and healthcare compliances and support services to African and southeast Asian countries. He has served as Joint Director to Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission, DST, and Joint Director to Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre, DST, both from Government of Gujarat. He has served as Director, Savli Technology Business Incubator, DST, Government of Gujarat, India. He was actively involved in development and implementation of various policies and action plans like Biotechnology policy, Innovation policy, Interpole disaster management policy, start-up policy for many Universities and Government. His research team is involved in addressing societal challenges via cutting-edge research viz. development of molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases, development of universal vaccine candidate for emerging diseases, development of miRNA based targeted therapeutics, and artificial intelligence in healthcare applications. Dr. Sushma Dave received her Master of Science in 1993 and a PhD in analytical and environmental chemistry from Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur in 1999. She also completed her bachelors of Law in 2018.She has been involved continuously in the field of higher education since 1999 teaching Pure, Applied Chemistry, Biology, Solid waste management, Waste water treatment and Environmental chemistry to students of Engineering and basic sciences. She also served as a Research Associate in Soil Chemistry and microbiology Division CAZRI, Jodhpur. Currently she is working as an Associate Professor in Jodhpur Institute of Engineering & Technology, Mogra, and Jodhpur Rajasthan India. She has published and presented over 50 papers in international and national journals, conferences and participated in various workshops and training programs. Her areas of interest are Electrochemistry, Environmental science, Nanotechnology, Soil biochemistry and bio fertilizers. She has published a number of chapters with Elsevier and springer text books and currently working on a funded project in the proposed area. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan did his Masters in 2007 from Vivekananda College, Madurai (Tamilandu, India) and Ph.D in 2014 from Alagappa University, Karaikudi (Tamil Nadu, India). After a post-doc at Jeju, Kongju, and Chonbuk Nantional University, South Korea, he joined the CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Insitute as DST-Inspire Faculty in April 2016. He has been working in diverse areas of electrochemistry for the past 10 years. His research primarily focuses on the areas of Electrocatlysis of various chemical and biochemical compounds, direct electrochemistsry of DNA, proteins and enzymes, electrochemical characterization of carbon, polymers, nanoparticles, metal oxide and sulfides nanomaterials etc. He has published more than 44 research papers in reputed peer reviewed journals and written 4 book chapters. His research articles have got more than 1915 citations. He has presented more than 14 research papers in national and international symposia and delivered more than 7 invited lectures in India. He is the recipient of several awards like Indo-Korea Research Internship Award, DST-Inspire Faculty Award and best paper award from different organizations. Padmaja Mohanty has a Masters in Botany from Ravenshaw University, India and a PhD from Gujarat University. She has more than ten tears of research experiences in various leading organizations like North-Eastern Hill University, ICAR-National Orchid research center, DBT-IBSD and Gujarat University, India in the areas of Molecular Diagnosis, Therapeutics, genomics, conservation and sustainable development. She was trained in clinical research and CDM and served in Reliance Life sciences. She was also a cofounder of initiatives viz. "Valnizen" and "Beryycure”. She is a reviewer and editor in many peer reviewed journals.