Research Scholar from MSU Gets into PM's Doctoral Fellowship Program

This is the maximum government fellowship in India at any academic or research institute, where the full-time PhD scholars get a fellowship of around Rs 70,000 a month contributed by GOI and partner industry.

Mr. Karan Joshi and Dr Prashant will work with industry mentor Ashok Jhaveri, director of Megafine Pharma and ex-IITian, for the research project, reports Times of India.

This fellowship has been awarded to a total of 36 students from reputed institutes like IITs, NITs, IIS, Bangalore and partnering companies like Google India, Tata Steel and Reliance Industries.

Dr Prashant has also been working as a visiting scientist at Karolinska Institute, a medical university in Stockholm, since 2017 on the project for developing novel anti-Alzheimer's agents.

He along with professor M R Yadav is working in close collaboration with Dr Darreh-Shori's Lab, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society and Karolinska Institute on a project focusing on the development of a new class of compounds that potentiate acetylcholine biosynthesis by the enzyme known as choline-acetyltransferase.

The purpose of this fellowship is to encourage young, talented, enthusiastic and result-oriented scholars to take up industry-relevant research.