Badireenath Konkimalla's Biography

Badireenath Konkimalla, Reader-F, National Institute of Science Education and Research

Dr. Badireenath Konkimalla, Reader-F, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar has a Bachelors degree in Pharmacy from the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR medical University, an M. Tech. in Biotechnology from the Center for Biotechnology (CBT), Anna University; and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and structural biology from University of Heidelberg. In 2007, he received an independent research grant worth approx ` 1 crore (136,000 Euros) for a period of two years from Dietmar Hopp foundation, Germany to conduct research at DKFZ in the area of traditional Chinese medicine. His research interests are in the interdisciplinary areas of chemical biology and drug development. He has been awarded the Mike Price fellowship award by the European association for cancer research (EACR) in the year 2009 and innovative young biotechnologist award (IYBA), DBT, India in the year 2012