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Dr Anand Akhila

Born 1955, Dr Anand Akhila  possesses a meritorious academic record with all four First divisions and distinctions from High School to M.Sc. He obtained M.Sc. in Chemistry with first position in order of merit from the University of Lucknow in 1976. Consequently, he was awarded prestigious '''National Scholarship of Govt. of India''' to study abroad for obtaining Ph.D. degree from any university of his choice around the world. He joined University College London (presently ranked at 4th position in the best universities of the world) in 1978 and was awarded Ph.D. from the University of London in Sept 1980 under the supervision of Dr D.V. Banthorpe. During the course of his Ph.D he worked out the biosynthetic pathways and the mechanism of important aroma compounds like carvone, liomonene, geraniol, carene, pulegone at molecular level in aroma bearing plants. This was the very fundamental work done on the biosynthesis of isoprenoids and made landmark contribution towards biosynthesis of secondary metabolites in plants'''. His immense contribution in the form of this work formed the basis of his appointment as Research Associate in 1981 and then as Scientist in 1982 at Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), a constituent institute of CSIR, based in Lucknow.'''