Dr. G. V. Subbaraju - Senior Vice President Aptuit Laurus Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad, India

Speaking on Green Technology for the Esterification of Carboxylic Acids

Dr. Subbaraju received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Andhra University in 1978 and 1982, respectively. He served as Faculty at the Department of Chemistry, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati during 1985-2000. During 1990-92 he was at Steven’s Institute of Technology, New Jersey as visiting scientist and 1995-1997 at University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii Islands as post doctoral associate. In the year 2000 he has taken up the responsibility of Research and Development at Laila Research Centre, Vijayawada and developed several novel nutraceuticals including 5-Loxin (Winner of DSIR National Award for the year 2007).

Dr. Subbaraju has extensive experience in the area of Chemistry of natural products and characterized large number of novel secondary metabolites from Indian Medicinal plants and marine organisms. He has supervised 10 students for Ph.D., and 6 M.Phil. candidates. He has published over 140 research papers and has more than 20 patents to his credit. He contributed a chapter each in two Monographs published by CRC Press, USA, titled 1. “Phytopharmaceuticals in Cancer Chemoprevention” (2005) and 2.“Anti-Angiogenic Functional & Medicinal Foods” (2007)

Dr. Subbaraju’s current research interests include process development and new platform technologies for pharmaceuticals.

He is a Fellow of American College of Nutrition and a member in various professional societies and is a recipient of Appreciation Certificate from New Jersey Senate.