Hemant Sood
Jaypee University of Information Technology, India
Biography
Hemant Sood has done PhD on Medicinal Plant Biotechnology in 2009 from the Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, INDIA and joined as a faculty at the same University in 2009. She has been awarded a prestigious Young Scientist Award of the INDIAN SCIENCE CONGRESS ASSOCIATION Conferred by Nobel Laureate Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, in 2012 on her contributions in developing cell culture technologies for high altitude medicinal herbs. She has published in journals of repute and has presented papers in prestigious international conferences some of which have been awarded as best poster awards. She has filed/published 6 patents on her research outcome. Her research on medicinal herbs has been funded by various funding agencies such as DBT, DST, DRDO, and MEF of the Govt. of India.