Premalata Pati, a senior research fellow of the Marine Science Department of Brahampur University, has been selected for the prestigious ‘Newton-Bhabha PhD Fellowship 2015 -16’ which is jointly awarded by the British Council, UK and Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Under this award Pati would undertake advanced research relating to isolation and characterisation of secondary metabolites from sea-life under the guidance of Prof Marcel Jaspars at the Marine Biodiscovery Centre, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences Aberdeen University, Scotland, sources said.
Pati is currently pursuing research work on extraction, isolation and chemical characterisation of secondary metabolites from cephalopod marine molluscs under the guidance of Prof RC Panigrahy, as an “INSPIRE senior research fellow”.