Mysore :

Dr.G. Muralikrishna, Chief Scientist, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore, has been awarded the prestigious “Carbohydrate Excellence Award for the year 2013”.

The award, instituted by the Association of Carbohydrate Chemists and Technologists, India, was given away at the International Conference on Challenges in Chemistry and Biology f Carbohydrates” – Carbo – XXVIII held recently at Dehradun.

Dr. Muralikrishna, a carbohydrate chemist of repute, has delineated the structure-function relationship of many dietary fibre components and non-digestible oligosaccharides derived from cereal brans and pulse husks.

He has more than 60 Peer-reviewed publications and several patents to his credit and is the recipient of prestigious awards such as Laljee-Godhoo Smarak Nidhi (2002) and AFST(I) Fellow (2008) by the Association of Food scientists and Technologists (India) for his outstanding work on carbohydrates and their degrading enzymes.

He has guided 8 Ph.D and given several lectures in National and International Symposia. He is an Advisory Board Member for the E-Journal entitled “Trends in Carbohydrate Research and peer reviewer for more than 12 International journals.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / February 01st, 2014