Heena Devkar

Heena Devkar is a Senior Research Fellow at CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography with a background in Marine Biotechnology. Prior to that, Heena has worked as a Project Assistant at ICAR-Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute and as a Trainee at Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology. During their internships at Microxpress® A Division of Tulip Diagnostics (P) Ltd. and Mormugao Port Trust Hospital, Heena gained hands-on experience in Microbiology and Pathology laboratory work, respectively. Heena holds a MSc in Marine Biotechnology from Goa University and a BSc in Biotechnology from Dhempe College. Heena's project involved the partial purification of alpha amylase inhibitor from Ocimum tenuiflorum (Holy basil).