Shilpa A Verekar
St. Xavier’s Autonomous College, India
Biography
Shilpa Verekar has completed her PhD from Jiwaji University, India. She is an Industrial Microbiologist with 14 years of experience as Senior Research Scientist at Research Centre of Piramal Enterprises Limited. She was actively engaged in the discovery of novel bioactive molecules like PM181110 particularly from fungi in the areas of anti-cancer and anti-infective diseases. She was actively involved in establishing the microbial culture collection (>50,000) and microbial extract library (>90, 000) with Piramal Enterprises Limited. She has 27 publications in reputed journals, 5 book chapters and 1 patent to her credit. She was awarded the “Woman Scientist Award at International Conference on "Mycology and Plant Pathology Biotechnological Approaches" at Banaras Hindu University in 2012. Currently she is working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Microbiology at St. Xavier’s Autonomous College, Mumbai.
Abstract
Abstract : Why pharmaceutical industry should work on fungal endophytes?