UoH professor nominated as member of NCMR

Hyderabad: Professor and Head of the Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Ch Venkata Ramana has been nominated as member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Centre for Microbial Resource (NCMR) by the Union Department of Biotechnology (DBT). Ramana has been mentioned as one of India’s best researchers in the field of Immunology and Microbiology.

This study was undertaken by compiling the Elsevier Science’s Bibliographic indexing database – SCOPUS for three years (2012-2014). He has been selected based on his publication count and h-index. His research publications output is 11.7 with an impact of 10.7 and has the highest h-index of 8 in the field of Immunology and Microbiology. Last year too Ramana was mentioned as one of India’s best researcher.

He had published his research findings in high impact journals like Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbial., Syst. Appl. Microbiol., J. Bact., DNA Res., J. Proteomic Res., Genome Announcements., PLOS1 and Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnology. He received the prestigious TATA Innovation Fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, in 2016. 

In recognition to his outstanding contribution to the taxonomy of bacteria, Environment, Forest and Climate change Ministry has honoured the prestigious Dr E K Janaki Ammal National Award for Microbial Taxonomy in the year 2016. Ramana works on bacterial diversity and metabolomics. He is indexing the bacterial wealth of India and assessing the assets and liabilities of bacteria and their metabolites.