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Experts share BioAsia innovation awards

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Hyderabad, Feb. 10 Dr K.S. Jaganathan, senior scientist, Shantha Biotechnics, and Dr Sharmistha Banerjee, a biochemistry lecturer in University of Hyderabad, shared the BioAsia Innovation Award 2008.

Dr Jaganathan and Dr Banerjee received the awards from Nobel Laureate Prof. Martin J. Evans at the valedictory ceremony of BioAsia 2008 held here on Saturday.

Dr Jaganathan and Dr Banerjee are working on mucosal immuneoresponse and mycobacterium tuberculosis respectively.

During Biocat — the three-day flagship biotech expo of the Andhra Pradesh Government — a biotech cluster of Catalonia, Spain (Europe) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Federation of Asian Biotech Associations for facilitating cooperation between the biotech companies in Asia and those in Catalonia.

The International Crop Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics has also signed a MoU with Maryland India Business Round Table, US, to work together for exchange of agricultural technology and commercialisation of agro-based technologies in areas such as food processing.

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