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Kankana in a few words
I am a doctorate in Microbiology from University of Mysore, India with 9 years of experience in biomedical research in academic and corporate sectors in India. My area of expertise are drug development, disease management, microbial based diseases, nanotechnology and animal cell lines.
I have published scientific manuscript my research work during doctoral studies in well known journals and later on produced few book chapters related to bio nanotechnology.
I describe myself as sincere, trustworthy, perseverant and most importantly always eager to learn.
I moved to Barcelona a year back with my family and I am actively looking for meaningful professional engagement right now.
Experience
- Gangagen Biotechnologies Pvt LtdAssociate scientistRESEARCHAugust 2019 - February 2023 (3 years and 6 months)Bengaluru, IndiaFocusing on pre-clinical trials for the screening of new drugs and contributed to the CARB-X Project as scientistresearcher● Executed preclinical studies involving microbiological assays and techniques specifically dealing withbacteria and bacteriophages as a part of Gram-Negative Project● Applied and analyzed ways to develop new drug to treat pneumonia caused by multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria in CARB-X Project
- University of MysoreResearch FellowEDUCATION & E-LEARNINGDecember 2014 - January 2019 (4 years and 2 months)Mysore, IndiaResearching on “Biosynthesis, Characterization of Fungal-Mediated Nanoparticles and their Biological Applications”● Experimented on new/existing strains of fungal species for synthesis of metal nanoparticles and broadaspects of their biomedical applications.● Fabricated peptide nanoparticle conjugates and evaluated their diversified effects on animal cell lines.● Literature survey and manuscript preparations.
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Education
- PhD in microbiologyUniversity of Mysore2019