Kanhaiya Kumar is a Senior Scientist at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM) since April 2022, previously serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) from June 2017 to May 2021, focusing on bioprocess engineering, metabolomics, and antibiotic production. Kanhaiya has also held positions as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology Calicut and as a Senior Researcher and Team Leader at KAIST, South Korea, specializing in photobioreactor modeling and algal cultivation. Research efforts began as a Senior Research Fellow at IIT Kharagpur, primarily investigating algal technology. Kanhaiya holds a PhD in Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a B.Tech in Biotechnology from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata.
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CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM)
Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) is a national Institute of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) of India. The mandate of IIIM is to be an internationally competitive centre of excellence in all facets of natural products research and technology, including (a) discovery of novel pharmacologically active natural products from plants and microbial species and translating them into drug leads and candidates by medicinal chemistry, preclinical pharmacology and clinical development. This approach is pursued both in NCE as well as botanical herbal mode; (b) Preclinical and clinical validation and establishment of mechanism of action of drugs used in various Indian systems of Medicines (Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and other Indigenous systems of medicine); (c) develop agro-technologies and commercial cultivation of high value medicinal and aromatic plants from Western Himalayas including Kashmir Valley and Laddkh for national and international markets; and (d) to work with Indian and global pharmaceutical industry to out-license new products and technologies.