LUDHIANA,

Mr Mudasir Yaquob, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Food Science and Technology, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), has been awarded the “Best Poster Award” under the industrial section entitled, “Extraction and identification of noval bioactives from kinnow peel (Citrus Reticulate L.) – An agro waste,” authored by Mudasir Yaqoob and Dr Poonam Aggarwal.

The award was presented during an international conference on “Innovations and Translational Dimensions: Food, Health and Environmental Biotechnology,” held from March 9-11, 2018. The conference was organized by the Department of Biotechnology, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad.

Mr Mudasir yaquob is also a recipient of Maulana Azad National Fellowship. The Head, Department of Food Science and Technology, Dr Poonam A. Sachdev congratulated the student for the achievement.