Dr. H.C. Yashavantha Rao obtainied his Doctoral degree and Masters degree in Microbiology at Microbial Drugs Laboratory, Department of Studies in Microbiology, Manasagangotri, University of Mysore, India. He is working in the field of Cancer Biology as well as biodiscovery of antianti-infective drugs from endophytic fungi and actinomycetes associated with medicinal plants. He have been invited as a ‘Speaker’ for several International conferences held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Singapore to mention in few. He has published many scientific research articles in high impact international peer reviewed journals. He has also published book chapters, serves as Editor in reputed journals and bagged several awards from different organizations. His areas of research are multidisciplinary, which are as but not limited to: Bioprespecting of Microbial endophytes, Natural products chemistry, Anti-cancer drugs, Microbial genomics, Nano biotechnology, Management of infectious diseases and multidrug resistant pathogens.

Cancer Biology, Biodiscovery of Natural products, anticancer drugs, chemical and biological interactions, plant pathology, polyketide anti-infective drugs from endophytes, Biodiversity, Biodiversity of Medicinal Plants, Microbial genomics, Management of infectious diseases and multidrug resistant pathogens, Nano biotechnology.

Email :  hcyrao@gmail.com