Accomplishments

AWARDS

Sri AV Gokak Gold medal in Masters – 2009
National 246th rank (98.6 percentile) in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 2009.
‘Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - Junior Research Fellowship’ (CSIR-JRF), from 2009-2012.
‘Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - Senior Research Fellowship’ (CSIR-SRF), from 2012-2014.
DRDO Technology Group Award for ‘Chimeric Gene Synthesis’ as the best technology innovation in DFRL, Mysore - 2013.
Top Ten most viewed Microbiology Articles in May and June, 2015 – Frontiers in Microbiology Journal.

First place in oral presentation during National Seminar on “Emerging Trends on Animal Biotechnology” held during 26th – 27th March, 2010 at Kakatiya University, Warangal, India.
Second place in research paper presentation during competition conducted by Association of Microbiologists in India, March, 2013.
Best research paper presentation at TSICON 2013 International conference on “Biology of Natural Toxins” held during 19th – 21st Dec, 2013 at BITS, Pilani, KK Birla Goa campus, Goa, India.
Represented Vins Bioproducts Ltd, Hyderabad in TSICON 2014 held at Kolkata, India by presenting an invited talk on ‘Development of Equine Anti-gas gangrene antitoxin’.
Selected for ‘Journey through Science day’ held by Pepsico and New York Academy of Sciences for presentation held in New York, USA.

Guest lecture on ‘Managing the Mephitic Malady of the Military (Treatment of Clostridial and Staphylococcal Soft Tissue Infections)’ on 6th March, 2015 at MS Ramaiah College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Bangalore. - 1 Lecture
Guest lecture on ‘Tackling the invisible enemies of Military - A focus on Clostridial and Staphylococcal co-infections’ on 27th March, 2015 at Vignan University, Vadlamudi, Guntur Dst, Andhra Pradesh. - 1 Lecture
Coaching classes to Under-graduates and graduates of University of Mysore and JSS womens’ college, Mysore for competitive exams (2011-2014). - 15 Lectures on Genetic Engineering, Developmental Biology and Molecular Biology.
Instructor during the capsule training course conducted at Defence Food Research Laboratory, Mysore for Staff of Army units and Composite Food Laboratories (2011). - 2 Lectures on DNA extraction and Food Microbiology.

Gangrevin is an effective life saving drug against clostridial gas gangrene.

Features:

•Intra-venous liquid drug

•Effective in terminating the progress of gangrene

•Equine origin – Processed horse plasma

•Composition: F(ab)2 antibodies in excipients

•Developed against lethal toxins of Clostridium perfringens, C. septicum & C. novyi.

•Side effects may include minor hypersensitive shock

Military product - To be used as directed by physician

AnthraCheck Sand-E kit provides a fast, reliable, cost-effective & easy method for detection of anthrax.

Features:

The high sensitivity (100 cells/ml) of AnthraCheck Sand-E kit is mainly due to an indigenously developed novel monoclonal antibody raised against the unique S-layer protein of B. anthracis.
This new kit can detect the presence of B. anthracis reliably from suspected cultures and clinical samples.
It can also detect the presence of anthrax spores from any matrix and the results are obtainable within approx 10 hrs (same day).