Marine Drugs and Natural Products

Biography

Professor Dr. Rama Swamy Nanna is well known Nationally and Internationally for his outstanding research contributions Plant Biotechnology in particular. He has made important contributions in conservation of medicinally/commercially important endangered forest tree species by using in vitro culture technology. His innovative research resulted in developing protocols for conservation of endangered medicinally important plants; molecular cloning of HSP genes and their expression in tomato; developing transgenic disease resistant soya bean; salt tolerant and thermo tolerant transgenic tomato and also identifying certain bio-molecules against diabetics, hypertension, psoriasis, human/plant pathogenic fungi and bacteria etc... isolated from various medicinal plants. Recently, he has established the work on green synthesis of nano particles and their effect on human pathogens. Prof. Rama Swamy visited Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Sri Lanka, Brazil and USA on different types of International Fellowship Programs. His talent as a teacher-researcher in the field of Biotechnology has been well-known and appreciated as he has won a number of coveted awards and honours: He received the Academy of Plant Sciences India Award-2005; Andhra Pradesh Scientist Award-2007 (APCOST), Government of AP, Research Excellency Award-2009, AP State Meritorious Best Teacher Award-2010, Talented Biotechnologist Award-2011 (Srilanka), Talented Scientist Award-2012 (USA) , Outstanding Faculty Award-2015 and other prestigious awards for his outstanding contributions to the field of Biotechnology.

Research Interest

Prof. Dr. Rama Swamy Nanna has been working on the conservation of endangered commercially/medicinally important plants by using in vitro culture technology, molecular cloning of drought tolerant/biotic stress tolerant transgenic plants, isolation & screening of bioactive molecules and green biosynthesis of nanoparticles from ethnomedicinal/ pharmaceutical plants.