Dr Imran Pancha from the Department of Biology, SRM university-AP is recognised among the top two per cent scientists/researchers across the world by Stanford University researchers.
Recently, an article has been published in PLOS Biology by Stanford researchers on the highly cited researchers in 22 different fields and their subfields. In the biotechnology field, 1,074 scientists/faculty members were identified and Dr Imran is one amongst them. From India, only 77 scientists/faculty members could achieve this honour.
This is an admirable achievement for a young faculty. Dr P Sathyanarayanan, the President of SRM University-AP honoured Dr Imran for bringing this scientific laurel to the university.
Overall, of the top 1,60,000 scientists from different fields of Science & Technology, India hosts 2,313 scientists/faculty members. This list comprises of the prominent and illustrious scientists from India.
Dr Imran’s primary research focus is to produce renewable energy from microalgae. His team is trying to develop integrated microalgal bio-refinery to produce high-value compounds like phycobiliproteins, carotenoids along with biofuel and bio-fertilisers from microalgae. Apart from this, he is also interested to understand algal-bacterial interaction, particularly isolate and characterise the microalgae associated bacteria and finding their role in growth enhancement and inhibition in microalgae.
