Gurumayum Jitendra Sharma MPhil, PhD

Gurumayum Jitendra Sharma has done his PhD (Radiation Biology) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Postdoctoral research from Department of Biochemistry, Brunel University, London. Since 1976, he joined the Department of Life Sciences, Manipur University, and retired as Senior Professor in 2016. Currently, he continues as UGCBSR Faculty Fellow in Life Sciences at Manipur University. He has 90 publications in national/international journals, supervised 20 PhDs, participated in over 75 conferences and delivered 34 keynote/ plenary/invited lectures in conferences/congresses/workshops held in USA, UK, France, China, Japan, Netherlands, Italy, Singapore, Thailand, and India. He was a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Food and Nutrition Research, Rome. He is a reviewer for 12 international journals of repute, his research areas are Plant Biotechnology, food irradiation, free radicals, and dietary antioxidants. He serves as Member, Scientific Panel on GMOs and foods, Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI), Government of India.