Gurumayum Jitendra Sharma
Professor
Life science
Manipur University
India
Biography
Prof Sharma has a consistently good academic background securing positions throughout his career. He received BSc (Hons) degree from Gauhati University (1971), M Sc (Botany) from Banaras Hindu University (1973), M Phil (Life Sciences) in 1974 and PhD (Radiation Biology) in 1983 from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Attn: Prof Robin Willson), Department of Biochemistry, Brunel University, London in the emerging field of Free Radical Biochemistry and as Senior Visiting Professor (Attn: Prof Anna Ferro-Luzzi) at National Institute of Food and Nutrition Research, Rome where he delivered a series of scientific lectures on food irradiation, free radicals and dietary anti-oxidants.
Research Interest
Genetics & Radiation Biology
Publications
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ChemInform Abstract: Cytotoxic Triterpenoids from Ficus pomifera Wall.
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In-vitro free radical scavenging activity and radioprotective property of Zingiber kangleipakense (Kishor & Å korniÄk)
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Tropical ginger extract as protectant in radiation countermeasures
