Dr. J. Naveena Lavanya Latha

Associate Professor Department of Biosciences & Biotechnology Krishna University Machilipatnam, A.P., India E.mail: [email protected] Mobile: 9290907081 Dr. J. Naveena Lavanya Latha is working as Associate Professor in department of Biosciences & amp; Biotechnology, Krishna University, Machilipatnam, India. Her research included Medical Mycology, Environmental Biotechnology and Protein Biochemistry. After completing her M.Sc in Biochemistry in 1999, she qualified CSIR-UGC JOINT NET and joined Osmania University. She was the college topper and gold medalist in her university and qualifying CSIR-UGC NET three times successively is her main asset. She has been awarded Ph.D degree in Biochemistry from Osmania University, Hyderabad in 2005. She has also been awarded DBT-Post doctoral fellow and worked in CCMB, Hyderabad from July-2005 to June-2007. Later, she worked as scientist in R &D unit of Dr. Reddys, Laboratories, Hyderbad till October 2009 and then she joined Krishna University. She published 72 research articles in various national and international journals with high impact factor, 2 Indian patents and granted one Design Patent. She was the recipient of SERB Young Scientist Grant in 2012. She had been elected as Associate fellow of AP Academy of Sciences in 2016 for her research contributions. She also won Best Paper Presentation award by Madras Diabetes Research Centre, in Indoswedish symposium in 2006.