SEED MONEY FOR RESEARCH
Preamble:
Research is mandatory in the departments offering Master degree programs. In order to support research activities in higher education institutions, both national and state funding agencies have established various schemes to fund research projects that fall into basic and applied research. The funding agencies provide research grants for the faculty based on the merit of the project and the academic credibility of the Principal Investigator.
Taking this into consideration, Mahajana Education Society has made a provision for providing SEED MONEY FOR RESEARCH to promote research activities by the faculty of Pooja Bhagavat Memorial Mahajana Education Center to enable the faculty to undertake short term research to generate data and publish the findings, which will enhance their academic credibility. These publications will certainly help the faculty to propose research projects to National/State agencies for funding and defend the proposed project when the funding agency shortlists the proposed project.
Procedure for funding:
- The research proposals will be scrutinized by Research Advisory & Ethics Committee (RAEC).
- The RAEC recommended projects will be funded for a period of 12-18 months under the head “Seed Money for Research”.
- MES will release seed money to the RAEC recommended projects in phased manner (Half-yearly).
The faculty provided with seed money has to present report related to financial expenditure and research progress once in 6 months to the RAEC.
NOTIFICATION
Mahajana Education Society is pleased to approve the funding of Rs. 2,00,000/- (Rupees two lakhs) for each of the listed projects submitted to Mahajana Research Foundation for seed money grant 2022-23. The grant will be released in three equal instalments once in six months subject to the conditions specified in the earlier notification of inviting the proposals. The Principal Investigators have to submit advance contingent bill to Hon. Secretary, Mahajana Education Society after it is counter signed by Dr. S. R. Ramesh, Chief Scientist, School of Life Sciences and by The Director, Pooja Bhagavat Memorial Mahajana Education Centre.
| Sl. No. | Name of the Principal Investigator & Department |
Title of the project |
| 1 | Dr. Mahadesh Prasad DOS in Biochemistry |
Understanding the mechanism of DNA damage signalling and repair pathway in B-cell malignancies |
| 2 | Dr. Girish Chandran DOS in Biochemistry |
Assessment of natural mitochondrial nutrients employing Drosophila: Relevance to neurotherapy |
| 3 | Dr. Krishna Kumar DOS in Biotechnology |
Isolation of anticancer compounds from medicinally important plants in Mahajana PG campus |
| 4 | Ms. Smitha Grace DOS in Biotechnology |
Evaluating the efficacy of Annona muricata peel phytoconstituents in synergy with methotrexate to induce apoptosis in MCF- 7 Human Breast Cancer cell line |
| 5 | Dr. B. Nandini DOS in Biotechnology |
Studies on the efficiency of biogenic nanoformulations on mycorrhizal association and selected plant health conditions |
| 6 | Dr. R. Harish DOS in Microbiology |
Isolation and characterization of bioremediating microorganisms |
| 7 | Dr. Kiran DOS in Microbiology |
Investigations of potency of plant sources for antifungal and insecticidal activity |
| 8 | Dr. Roopa DOS in Chemistry |
Biopesticide synthesis for pest control in food grain storage |