SRM University-AP receives grant from Centre for 3 major research projects

Professor Ranjit Thapa of the Department of Physics is leading a research project that aims at discovering the best catalysts to convert carbon dioxide into a useful product has been chosen by the National Supercomputing Mission.

The central government passed its approval to the SRM University-AP at Amaravati for three major research projects in different branches of science. According to the reports, the University has chosen SRM Biology Department's Associate Dean Professor C Durga Rao, who is the principal investigator, for a project to study the implications for improving the growth of human vaccine strains by understanding the molecular basis for the extreme differential level of expression of genes from human and animal rotaviruses in gene-transfected cells.

Meanwhile, Professor Ranjit Thapa of the Department of Physics is leading a research project that aims at discovering the best catalysts to convert carbon dioxide into a useful product. Mr Thapa has been chosen by the National Supercomputing Mission. The University in its official press release said, the Union Department of Science and Technology, in collaboration with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, is supporting the project under the National Supercomputing Mission.

A financial grant has been awarded to another project led by Mahesh Kumar Ravva, an assistant professor of chemistry under the NSM. The press release notified by the University reads the aim of this project is to understand the critical factors that influence the performance of organic solar cells.

The Department of Biotechnology has awarded a grant of ₹1.10 crore to Prof Durga Rao to perform cell culture and virus-related research at SRM University-AP.

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