Biography

Subhash completed his BSc-Botany and MSc-Botany degree education at University of Pune. Immediately after completing his MSc (May 1996), he got an opportunity to work at ‘Biochemical Engineering Department’ and ‘Plant Tissue Culture Pilot Plant’ of National Chemical Laboratory, India. In June 2000, he received a Doctoral Fellowship (GRA) to pursue a PhD in Molecular Genetics at the National University of Malaysia (UKM). In 2004, he was appointed as Senior Research Officer at Melaka Institute of Biotechnology (MIB), a research wing of Melaka Biotechnology Corporation. Based on performance, in April 2005, he was promoted as Principal Investigator & Head of R&D Division at MIB, Malaysia. In 2008, he was invited by the AIMST University as a ‘Visiting Faculty’ for their Department of Biotechnology and now serving as an Associate Professor. In 2009, he was nominated for the AASIO (Association of Agricultural Scientists of Indian Origin) Young Scientist Award. He has published more than 45 peer-reviewed articles, and submitted more than 11,850 DNA sequences in Gene Bank, and got more than 10 awards/fellowships. He is actively involved in research as well as teaching and advising of students.