Short CV

1. Name: Prof. Absar Ahmad

2. Date of Birth: 1st

July 1963

3. Current Position and Address: Director, Interdisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh-202002, Uttar Pradesh, India.

4. Academic/Research Experience/Employment:

Sl. No From To Name of Organization Position held

1 14/12/2016 Till date Interdisciplinary Director Nanotechnology Centre,

Aligarh Muslim University

(AMU)

2 2011 13/12/2016 CSIR-National Chemical Senior Principal Laboratory (NCL), Pune Scientist (Scientist F)

3 2006 2011 CSIR-NCL, Pune Principal Scientist (Scientist E-II)

4 2002 2006 CSIR-NCL, Pune Scientist E-I

5 1998 2002 CSIR-NCL, Pune Scientist C

6 1993 1998 CSIR-NCL, Pune Scientist B

7 1992 1993 CSIR-Central Institute of

Medicinal and Aromatic Research Associate Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow.

8 1988 1992 Senior Research CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow Fellow

9 1985 1987 Junior Research CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow Fellow

5. Area of Specialization: Nano-biotechnology: Cost-effective mass production of inorganic

nanomaterials using biosynthesis, bioleaching, & biomilling approaches for applications

in healthcare, agriculture, ebergy, environment, water purification and desalinization;

future drugs from endophytic fungi; conjugation of drugs and nanomaterials for

targeted drug delivery; biotransformations, etc.

6. Honors/Awards received: Annexure 4, below in the same document.

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Awards:

Recipient of Tata Innovation Fellowship, 2007-2008, Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, India. (The objective of this fellowship is to reward Interdisciplinary work of high quality with emphasis on Innovation. This award carries an amount of Rs. 20, 000 per month in addition to regular salary and a contingency grant of Rs. 5 Lakhs per year for 3 years).

Received VASVIK (Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra, Industrial Research Award) award in the category of Biological Sciences and Technology (2006) which includes a cash prize of Rs. 1,00,000 and a citation. The the facilitation was done by honourable then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Sri. Narendra Modi. (7th Oct, 2011).

Recipient of Scientist of the Year Award, 2007, NCL Research Foundation, Pune, India. Sponsored by Maneckji Shrinbai Neterwala Foundation (Rs. 20,000 cash and Citation).

Delivered Platinum Jubilee Lecture in section of Plant Sciences at the 98th

Indian Science Congress to be held at Chennai during January 3-7, 2011. (Rs. 10,000 cash and Citation).

Recipient of Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) medal, Bangalore 2009 (Cash and Citation).

Recipient of Dr. Shome Memorial Award, 2004, Mycological Society of India, Madras (Cash and Citation).

Recognitions:

Technical knowhow on the synthesis of triangular gold nanoparticles synthesized from Lemon Grass extract has been transferred to Tata Chemicals Ltd., Mumbai and is presently in use.

Member of the DBT Task Force on Value added Products from Bio- resources, from 2014.

Member of the DBT Task Force on Fungi Network Programme from 2014.

Member of Expert/Scientific Advisory committee on Nanoscience and Technology of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), New Delhi 2007- 2012.

Member of Biotechnology Industry Partnership Programme (BIPP) Department of Biotechnology (DBT) regarding the site visit to M/s. Tata Chemicals Limited for discussing the proposal on R&D (April 2010).

Nominated by DBT, New Delhi as a member of the project monitoring committee of the following project: Commercial scale production of nanopesticides and nanofungicides

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for India Agro Industry of Saveer Biotechnology, Greater Noida, supported under BIPP Programme.

Member of Scientific Advisory Committee- Review Area Panel of National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi, 2010-11.

Member of the expert sub-committee for Revisiting UPI Part-II (Formulations) Dept. of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, 2014 till date.

Member of the expert committee of the Unani Pharmacopoeia Committee (UPC), Dept. of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, from 2012- till date.

Member of the expert committee on ‘Shelf-life studies of Unani drugs’ by the

Department of Ayush, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, from 2014.

Nominated by the University Grants Commission for the Advisory Committee of DRS-I (2012- 2017) under the Special Assistance Programme (SAP) sponsored to Department of Biotechnology, SGB Amravati University, Amravati. From September 2012 – August 2017.

Member of Advisory Committee of University Grant Commission (UGC)-Special Assistance Programme (SAP) under the thrust areas of research on Bioremediation and Enzyme Technology of Biochemistry Department of Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, 2010-Till date.

Member of Board of Studies in Microbiology of Gulbarga University, Karnataka.

Member of expert committee of the project entitled “Establishment of Encephalitis Research Centre of Excellence” of Department of Neurology, Sanjay Ganghi Post

Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI), Lucknow sponsored by Council of Science and Technology, Uttar Pradesh, 2010-11.

Member of Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC) of Tata Chemicals, Pune (From 2010-till date).

Member of Doctoral Committee of Ph.D Students at Tata Chemicals Pune from 2013-till date.

Member of CSIR, delegation to attend U.K Nanoforum Conference at London. Delivered

invited talks at Oxford, Cambridge, Nottingham and London. (27th

Nov-3rd

Dec, 2007) Member of Indian delegation to attend Nanobiotechnology Conference at Nice, France.

Delivered an invited lecture at the Institut de Pharmacologie Moleculaire et

Cellulaire, Sophia Antipolis, France. (8-10th

September, 2004).

Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, 2008

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Vice President of Mycological Society of India.

Fellow of Mycological Society of India, 2009.

Member of Editorial Board of Mycological Society of India (2007-2010).

Elected member of executive council of Mycological Society of India from 2001 to 2004 and again from 2004 to 2007.

Associate Editor of an International Journal “Annals of Phytomedicine”

2011. Associate Editor of “Trends in Bioscience”, 2011.

Member of several organizational committees of CSIR-NCL, Pune.

Member of Collegium of Biochemical Sciences and Plant Tissue Culture Divisions for Scientist E-I.

Member of Divisional Administrative Council (DAC) Biochemical Sciences Division, NCL.

Honours:

Presentations in International/National conferences and symposia - ~150

Honoured as a Chief Guest of the Inauguration programme and delivered a keynote address on Biological synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials: Current status and future

prospects in XII Conference of Society of Cytologist and Geneticists and National

Symposium on Challenges for Biologist in 21st

Century. 22nd

December 2014 at Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur.

Honoured as a Chief Guest of the Inauguration programme and delivered a keynote address on Nanotechnology: Application in medicine and agriculture in National

Conference of Recent Trends in Nanoscience: Techniques and Applications for

Life Sciences on 19th

December 2014 at RYK College, Nashik.

Chief Guest at the 13th State Level MicrobiOlympiad organized by the R.C. Patel Arts, Commerce and Science College, Shirpur, Maharashtra. (27th Jan, 2014)

Guest of honour at the National Workshop on Nanomedicine organized by the Department of Biosciences, Integral University, Lucknow. (7th March, 2014)

Honoured as a Chief Guest and delivered a key note address in an International Symposium entitled 'Science-Religion Dialogue in the World on Nanoscience. The encounter between the mastery of science and the mystery of religion' organized at Lonavala on 1st January, 2010.

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Biologically synthesized inorganic nanomaterials of different chemical compositions, sizes and shapes were supplied to several CSIR labs (IICT, CCMB, CLRI, CDRI, IITR, etc.) and several other R&D organizations (Alababa University, NCCS-Pune, NII-New Delhi, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Roorke, UDCT-Mumbai, SGPGI-Lucknow, ACTREC-Mumbai, etc.) for project formulations for biomedical, diagnostics, catalytic and other applications.

Chaired a session on Materials Science and Nanotechnology in 5th

Uttarakhand State

Science & Technology Congress (USSTC), 2010 from 10-12th

November, Dehradun.

Chaired a session entitled “Fungal Biodiversity” during National Seminar on Fungal

Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Organized jointly by Mycological society of India and Centre for Post graduate studies Shri Bhagwan Mahavir Jain College, Bangalore at Bangalore Feb 2-3, 2006.

Chaired a Session during International Interdisciplinary Conference on Sustainable

Technologies For Environmental Protection “Probing The Boundaries” 7th

-9th

January, 2006 Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

Chairman, selection committee of Technical Assistant at National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, 2014.

Chairman of a Session of Organic Devices at the India-Japan Workshop on ‘Biomolecular Electronics & Organic Nanotechnology for Environment Preservation’ (IJWBME), Delhi Technical University, Delhi. (14th Dec, 2013)

Co-chaired a Session during Indo-French symposium on Nanotechnology, Sponsored by French Embassy in India and Department of Science and Technology New Delhi, at National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, Jan 23-25, 2006.

Co-chaired a Session during National Seminar on Nanobiotechnology the Road Ahead, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, 17-19 Nov 2005.

Convenor of a Session on Microbes and Nanotechnology in 48th

Annual Conference

of AMI, Dec 18th

-21st

at IIT, Chennai.

Delivered plenary lecture at a session of Biosensors, Chaired by Prof. Krishna Lal, the then President of Indian National Science Academy (INSA, New Delhi) at the above workshop. (13th Dec, 2013)

Delivered key-note address at the 1st

International Congress on Environmental, Biotechnology, and Chemistry Engineering (CEBCE 2014) organized by The South Asia Institute of Science and Engineering (SAISE), China at the Pride Hotel Pune. (21st Feb, 2014)

Delivered several invited talks in companies like Cipla- Mumbai, Tata Chemicals- Pune and DSM (Dutch-based multinational Life Sciences and Material Science Company), India

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Innovation Centre, Gurgaon, India for bioinspired nanomaterials synthesis and future drugs from endophytic fungi.

Delivered a keynote address entitled “Role of Mushroom in Nanotechnology” in the 8th

International Conference on Mushroom on 20th

November 2014 at IARI, New Delhi.

7. Professional Affiliations:

Life member of Mycological Society of India

Life member of Association of Microbiologist of India

Life member of Materials Research Society of India Life

member of Society of Biological Chemists (India)

8. *(a) Number of Research Publications:

A total of 106 Research Papers have been published. For more information, please refer to Annexure 1, below in the same document.

Total Citations of published work: above 18,360 (Eighteen thousand three hundred sixty)- Source Google Scholar

h-Index: 45

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(b) List of best 5 papers defining our work on biological synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials:

1. S. Shiv Shankar, Akhilesh Rai, Ankamwar B, Amit Singh, Ahmad A and Murali Sastry* (2004). Biological synthesis of triangular gold nanoprisms. Nature Materials. 3:482-488

Impact factor: 39.737

2. Bansal V, Ahmad. A* and Sastry M*(2006). Fungus mediated biotransformation of amorphous silica in rice husk to nanocrystalline silica J.Am.Chem.Soc 128: 14059-14066.

Impact factor: 13.858

3. Absar Ahmad*, T. Jagdale, V.Dhas, Shadab Khan, S.Patil, Renu Pasricha, V.Ravi, Satishchandra O* (2007). Fungus based synthesis of chemically difficult to synthesize multifuncational nanoparticles of CuAlO2 Adv. Mater. 19: 3295-3299

Impact factor: 19.791

4. Shadab Khan, Absar Ahmad* (2013), Phase, Size and Shape Transformation by Fungal Biotransformation of bulk TiO2. Chemical Engineering Journal. 230, 367-371. Impact factor: 5.310

5. Shadab Khan, Absar Ahmad* (2014), Enzyme mediated synthesis of water dispersible, naturally protein capped, monodispersed gold nanoparticles; characterization and mechanistic aspects, RSC Advances. 4, 7729-7734. Impact factor: 3.708

* Corresponding author

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9. *Number of Books authored/edited: Chapters in 12 books (For details please see

Annexure 2) 10. *Number of Patents granted/applied for: A total of 11 National and 11

International Petents have been granted/applied for (Please see Annexure 3).

11. External Cash Flow (ECF) and royalties generated:

External Cash Flow (ECF) and royalties were generated from several national and international companies like:

Genencor (Biotechnology company, Subsidiary of Du Pont, Rochester, New York, USA)

Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Ahmadabad.

Asian Paints, Mumbai.

Tata Chemicals, Mumbai.

12. Dissertations supervised:

(c) Ph.D: Our work on bioinspired nanomaterials synthesis/drugs/endophytes was part of the Ph.D thesis of 17 students. Two other students are awaiting their viva-voce.

(d) Post Graduation: Our work on bioinspired nanomaterials synthesis / drugs / endophytes was part of project work of 85 students (M.Sc, M.Tech, B.Tech). from different universities all over India. Six students are presently working on the above related work.

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Annexure 1: Published Papers

Total number of published research papers: 106

List of research papers cited more than 100 times:

# Title Citation Year

1 Rapid synthesis of Au, Ag, and bimetallic Au core–Ag shell 1872 2004

nanoparticles using Neem (Azadirachta indica) leaf broth.

Journal of colloid and interface science 275 (2), 496-502

2 Synthesis of gold nanotriangles and silver nanoparticles using 1515 2006

Aloevera plant extract.

Biotechnology progress 22 (2), 577-583

3 Biological synthesis of triangular gold nanoprisms.

Nature materials 3 (7), 482-488 1424 2004

4 Extracellular biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using the fungus 1353 2003

Fusarium oxysporum.

Colloids and surfaces B: Biointerfaces 28 (4), 313-318

5 Fungus-mediated synthesis of silver nanoparticles and their 955 2001

immobilization in the mycelial matrix: a novel biological approach to

nanoparticle synthesis.

Nano Letters 1 (10), 515-519

6 Geranium leaf assisted biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles. 953 2003

Biotechnology progress 19 (6), 1627-1631

7 Biosynthesis of metal nanoparticles using fungi and actinomycete 859 2003

Current science 85 (2), 162-170

8 Bioreduction of AuCl4− ions by the fungus, Verticillium sp. and surface 719 2001

trapping of the gold nanoparticles formed

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 40 (19), 3585-3588

9 Bioreduction of chloroaurate ions by geranium leaves and its 716 2003

endophytic fungus yields gold nanoparticles of different shapes

Journal of Materials Chemistry 13 (7), 1822-1826

10 Extracellular biosynthesis of monodisperse gold nanoparticles by a 614 2003

novel extremophilic actinomycete, Thermomonospora sp.

Langmuir 19 (8), 3550-3553

11 Biosynthesis of gold and silver nanoparticles using Emblica officinalis 576 2005

fruit extract, their phase transfer and transmetallation in an organic

solution

Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology 5 (10), 1665-1671

12 Controlling the optical properties of lemongrass extract synthesized 558 2005

gold nanotriangles and potential application in infrared-absorbing

optical coatings

Chemistry of Materials 17 (3), 566-572

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13 Extracellular synthesis of gold nanoparticles by the fungus Fusarium 555 2002

oxysporum

ChemBioChem 3 (5), 461-463

14 Intracellular synthesis of gold nanoparticles by a novel alkalotolerant 496 2003

actinomycete, Rhodococcus species

Nanotechnology 14 (7), 824

15 Nitrate reductase-mediated synthesis of silver nanoparticles from 416 2007

AgNO3

Biotechnology letters 29 (3), 439-445

16 Enzyme mediated extracellular synthesis of CdS nanoparticles by the 409 2002

fungus, Fusarium oxysporum

Journal of the American Chemical Society 124 (41), 12108-12109

17 Role of halide ions and temperature on the morphology of biologically 319 2006

synthesized gold nanotriangles

Langmuir 22 (2), 736-741

18 Extracellular biosynthesis of bimetallic Au–Ag alloy nanoparticles 297 2005

Small 1 (5), 517-520

19 Biosynthesis of zirconia nanoparticles using the fungus Fusarium 261 2004

oxysporum

Journal of Materials Chemistry 14 (22), 3303-3305

20 Extracellular biosynthesis of magnetite using fungi 260 2006

Small 2 (1), 135-141

21 Fungus-mediated biosynthesis of silica and titania particles 246 2005

Journal of Materials Chemistry 15 (26), 2583-2589

22 Room-temperature biosynthesis of ferroelectric barium titanate 210 2006

nanoparticles

Journal of the American Chemical Society 128 (36), 11958-11963

23 Extra-/intracellular biosynthesis of gold nanoparticles by an 204 2005

alkalotolerant fungus, Trichothecium sp.

Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology 1 (1), 47-53

24 Fungus-mediated biotransformation of amorphous silica in rice husk 156 2006

to nanocrystalline silica

Journal of the American Chemical Society 128 (43), 14059-14066

25 Extracellular biosynthesis of CdSe quantum dots by the fungus, 151 2007

Fusarium oxysporum

Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology 3 (2), 190-194

26 A novel thermostable xylanase from Thermomonospora sp.: influence 116 2001

of additives on thermostability

Bioresource Technology 78 (3), 221-224

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27 Microbial nanoparticle production 114 2003

Nanotechnology’(Wiley-VCH, 2004)

28 Studies on carboxymethyl cellulase produced by an alkalothermophilic 110 2001

actinomycete

Bioresource Technology 77 (2),

171-175

Annexure 2

Chapters in Books

1. Ahmad. A$

., S. Senapati, M. I. Khan, R. Kumar and M. Sastry (2008). Biosynthesis of

nanoparticles by Fusarium oxysporum. In Novel techniques and Ideas in Mycology. Eds K.R.Sridhar, F.Baerlocher and K.D.Hyde, Pp 77-94, Fungal Diversity Research Series 20, Thailand

2. Ahmad. A$

., S,Senapati., M. I. Khan, R. Kumar and M. Sastry (2007). Biosynthesis

of Silver Nanoparticles Using Fungi" In: Fungi: Multifaceted Microbes. Eds. B.N. Ganguli and S.K. Desmukh. Pp 291-303 Anamaya Publishers, New Delhi, India and Co publish by CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida USA.

3. Senapati. S., R.Kumar. M. Sastry, M.I.Khan and A. Ahmad$

(2007). Biosynthesis of

Gold and Silver Nanoparticles using Extremophilic Actinomycete, Thermomonospora sp. In: Environmental Science and Engineering, Eds. P. Lakshmanperumalsamy and T.K.Ghosh. Pp 18-28 Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India.

4. Vyas S, A. Ahmad and Lachke. A. (2005). Fungal Biotechnology: Opportunities in

Pulp and Paper Manufacturing. In: Fungi: Diversity and Biotechnology. Eds. M.K.Rai and S.K.Deshmukh. Pp 1-30. Scientific Publisher, P.O.Box 91 Jodhpur (India)

5. Sastry M, A. Ahmad. Khan, M.I. and Kumar, R. (2004). Microbial Nanoparticles production. In: NanoBiotechnology: Concepts, Applications and Perspectives. Eds C. M. Niemeyer and C.A. Mirkin Ch.9, Pp 126-135 published by Wiley-VCH Verlag

Gmbh, Weinheim - Total citation: 75.

6. Santosh V., A. Ahmad. and Lachke A. (2004). Production of Industrially important alkaline cellulases from newly isolated alkalotolerant Fusarium Sp. In: Microbiology

and Biotechnology for Sustainable Development.Ed. P.C.Jain Pp 283-292 CBS Publishers and Distributors New Delhi India

7. Ahmad. A$

., Khan M.I., Kumar, R., and M. Sastry. (2002). Biosynthesis of Gold

nanoparticles using fungi. In: Frontiers of Fungal Diversity. In: India (Prof. Kamal Festschrift). Eds. G.P. Rao, C. Manoharachari, D.J. Bhat, R. C. Rajak, and T.N. Lakhanpal. Pp 9-21. International Book Distributing Co., Lucknow.

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8. Santosh V., Lachke A and A. Ahmad$

(2002). Fungal cellulases for novel industrial

application. In: Frontiers of Fungal Diversity. In India (Prof. Kamal Festschrift). Eds. G.P. Rao, C. Manoharachari, D.J. Bhat, R. C. Rajak, and T.N. Lakhanpal. Pp 143-159. International Book Distributing Co., Lucknow.

9. Srinivasan,M.C, A. Ahmad., Ingale,S., and Rele.M.V (2000). Ecology of litter and

endophytic fungi and their biotechnology potential:An overview. In: Ecology of fungi Eds.D.J Bhat and S.Raghukumar Pp.15-20 Goa University,Goa.

10. Gupta, M.L., Janardhanan, K.K., A. Ahmad., Alam.M., Kalra,A. and Husain.A (2000).

Diseases of Cymbopogon species In: Cymbopogon. The Aromatic GrassMonograph. Eds.Kumar,S.Dwivedi,S.,A.K.Kukreja, J.R.Sharma and G.D. Bagachi, Pp 283-289 published by Director Central Instutute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Lucknow.

11. Janardhanan K.K and A. Ahmad (1997). Fungal endophytes of grasses: Incidence

and distribution in India. In: Tropical Mycology Eds. K. K. Janardhanan , C. Rajendran, K. Natarajan and D. L. Hawksworth, Pp 157-168 Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. PVT. LTD. New Delhi and Co published by Science Publishers USA.

12. A. Ahmad$

(2013). Green approach for inorganic nanomaterials synthesis using

bioinspired routes and their applications in imaging, diagnosis, therapeutics and related sectors. In: Biopharmaceuticals and nanotechnology in therapeutics (from life for life). Eds. M. Sultana, R. Raina, P.K Verma, S. Prawez & S.K Gupta. Pp 81-82. Printed by: Bytes & Bytes.

$ Corresponding Author

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Annexure 3

Number of Patents granted/applied for:

International Patents Filed and Granted:

1. Process for Immobilized nano-sized metal particles. U.S. Patent No. 7759098, Date of grant 20-07-2010.

2. Composition of polymer microcapsules of biocide for coating material (2006). United States Patent Application US2007/0053950 A1.

3. A new process for the synthesis of mono and bimetallic nanoparticles. Patent no.

WO/2005/095031, Publication date 13-10-2005.

4. Process for the preparation of protease inhibitor using novel alkalothermophilic Bacillus sp. U.S. Patent No. 6846664, Date of grant 25-1-2005.

5. Biological process for synthesis of oxide nanoparticles (2004). United States Patent Application 2005/0214916 A1.

6. A biological process for the preparation of mineral crystals using seeds (2004). United States Patent Application 2005/0214194 A1.

7. Process for the preparation of metal sulfide nanoparticles (US Patent No. 6783963, date of grant 31-8-2004)

8. Process for preparation of lactone from a cyclic ketone. U. S. Patent No. 6559322, Date of grant 6-5-2003.

9. Process for the preparation of a nanosized colloidal metal particle (U. S. Patent No. 6537344, Date of grant 25-3-2003)

10. Biological process for the preparation of mineral crystals using seeds. WO/2005/066350, Publication date 21-7-2005.

11. Alkalothermophillic Bacillus that produces a protease inhibitor. U.S. Patent No. 6448060, Date of grant 10-9-2002.

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Indian patents filed and granted:

1. Direct top down synthesis of protein capped nanoparticles by fungal bioleaching and biotransformation. 2007-INV-0013 Disclosure date 6/4/2007.

2. A novel process for preparation of homogeneous nanoparticles. Indian Patent

Application No 2721/DEL/2006, Publication date 5-9-2008

3. A process for the preparation of the alkali stable cellulase from an alkalothermophilic Thermomonospora sp. Indian Patent Application No. 1298/DEL/2004, Publication date 30-6-2006

4. A new process for the synthesis of mono and bimetallic nanoparticles. Indian Patent

No. 237381, Date of grant 17-12-2009

5. Composition of polymer microcapsules of biocide for coating materials. (Indian Patent no. 252557 , Date of Grant. 22-05-2012)

6. A process for the biofinishing of denims in textile industry. (Indian Patent

No. 245202, Grant Date 7-1-2011)

7. A biological process for the synthesis of oxide nanoparticles Indian Patent Application No 2058/DEL/2004, Publication date 18-8-2006

8. A new process for the preparation of stable metal sulphide nanoparticles. Indian

patent no. 224812, Date of grant. 23-10-2008.

9. A process for the preparation of Cellulase free alkali tolerant xylanase. Indian Patent no. 192501, Date of Grant. 30-8-2005.

10. A process for the preparation of protease inhibitor using novel alkalothermophilic

Bacillus sp. (Indian Patent no. 191262, Date of Grant. 16-11-2004).

11. A process for the preparation of protease inhibitor using novel alkalothermophilic Bacillus sp. (Indian Patent no. 215711, Date of Grant. 3-3-2008.

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Annexure 4: Awards Received

Tata Innovation Award

15

Vasvik Award

16

Scientist of the Year NCL

17

Materials Research Society of India

18

Maharashtra Academy of Sciences

19

The Indian Science Congress

20

Mycological Society of India

21

Dr. Shome Memorial Award

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