The Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) Bhubaneswar scientists, Drs Sanjeeb Sahoo, Amaresh C Panda and Director (Additional Charge) Pulok Kumar Mukherjee are among the ‘World's Most Influential Scientific Minds in 2022.’
Prof Mukherjee, Director, IBSD and Director (Additional charge), ILS is working on traditional medicine-inspired drug discovery and development from Indian medicinal plants with major emphasis on their validation, formulation, and standardization, metabolomics profiling, safety, and related aspects. He is also a fellow of the National Academy of Agriculture Science (FNAAS), National Academy of Science, India (FNASc) and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (FRSC).
Dr Sahoo is featured on the career-long impact and single-year impact list in the sub-category of ‘Pharmacology & Pharmacy’ and ‘Nanoscience & Nanotechnology’ under the category of ‘Clinical Medicine’ for last three years, including 2022. In 2018, he also made it to the top 4,000 scientists released by a US-based firm Clarivate Analytics. His research group at ILS mainly focuses on the nanotechnology-based targeted drug delivery to the tumor tissues where by using the techniques, cancer cells can be killed.
Dr Panda was featured in the subfield 'Developmental Biology' and 'Biochemistry & Molecular Biology' under the field of 'Biomedical Research'. Dr Panda's research group at ILS is working to understand the role of poorly characterized circRNAs in muscle regeneration and insulin biosynthesis.