Dr Sudhir singh
CIAB, Mohali
Product: Trehalose
Dr Naseem Gaur
ICGEB, Delhi
Product: Xylo-oligosaccharide
Dr Naseem A. Gaur has completed his PhD at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. He completed his postdoctoral training at BWH, Harvard University, Boston, MA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA. He is currently a scientist at ICGEB, and principal investigator at DBT-ICGEB Centre for Advanced Bioenergy Research, ICGEB, New Delhi. He has published more than 50 research papers in international journals of high repute, including Chemical engineering journals, Bioresource technology, renewable energy, EMBO J, CELL, Genetics and four Indian patents applications.
He won the best science award at PCRM, National Institutes of Health, USA, and he was selected for Ramanujan Fellowship award by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.
Dr Gaur’s laboratory is engaged in developing technologies for the microbial production of fuels and chemicals. He has developed expertise and a world-class facility at ICGEB’s New Delhi component to implement Synthetic biology and genome editing tools to develop robust yeast strains for industrial application for green chemicals production by microbial fermentation.
Dr Anirban Roy Choudhury
CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh
Product 1: Nanocomposite Hydrogel
Product 2: Co-Encapsulated Nutraceuticals
Dr. Anirban Roy Choudhury is working as a Senior Principal Scientist at CSIR- Institute of Microbial Technology which is one of the premier CSIR labs based out Chandigarh in the field of microbiology and biotechnology. With more than 2 decades of experience in the industry and academia, Dr Anirban is an adept researcher in Bioprocess Development and Scale up; Fermentative production of polysaccharides and Polysaccharide based biomaterials.
The main areas of his research domain include fermentative production of various commercially important biomolecules and his laboratory is actively working on polysaccharides which are one of the most abundant but relatively less exploited biomolecules. He is extensively involved in the research of polysaccharides ranging from screening, production and scale up of polysaccharide fermentation to developing biomaterials which has diverse applications.
Dr Anirban is a result oriented researcher with demonstrated success in executing projects to achieve optimum and timely results for the industrial clients and also developing cross-functional research teams in IMTECH. One of the major achievements of his laboratory has been the development of economically feasible bioprocess for production of Pullulan and the process has been optimized for 500L fermenter. His research group is also looking at isolating novel exopolysaccharides having unique and remarkable properties suitable for diverse industrial sectors. For this purpose, Dr Anirban’s research group is screening novel marine microorganisms for their exopolysaccharides production potential and characterizing the physical and chemical properties of the biopolymers.
As part of repurposing exercise, the group is also developing polysaccharide-based materials like hydrogels and studying their physical, chemical and rheological properties and also attempting to develop novel biomaterials for industrial applications.
Dr Shashi Kumar Rhode
ICGEB, Delhi
Product: Astaxanthin
Dr Shashi Bhushan
CSIR-IHBT, Palampur
Product: Naphthoquinone Red Pigment
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