List of Short Listed Candidates for BioAsia Innovation Award 2015 Name Affliliation Topic Mr. Abhinav Grover SCHOOL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY Metabolic Engineering Of The Biosynthetic Pathway Of Withanolides For Enhanced Production And Elucidation Of Their Action Mechanisms Ms. Alfa Dhakal National College, Tribhuvan University,Kathmandu, Nepal ALDH1A1 And ALDH3A1 As Immunohistochemical Markers For Prognostic Significance And Resistance To Chemotherapy In Various Grades Of Glioma. Ms. Anshu Bhardwaj Open Source Drug Discovery Unit, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Crowdsourcing As A Method For Genome Annotation In Drug Discovery Ms. Keerti Jain ISF College of Pharmacy, Punjab A Novel Approach For Immunostimulation And Macrophage Targeting: Amphotericin B Loaded Mdp Conjugated Poly(Propylene Imine) Dendrimers Mr. Mohammad Aarif Siddiqui Mir Lifescience Private Limited Real Time Pcr Based Gene Signature To Predict Chemosensitivity In Cancer Dr. Preeti Nigam Joshi National Chemical Laboratory A Nanotheranostic System For Pancreatic Cancer Specific Dual Drug Combination Therapy And Bioimaging Mr. Rahul Shubhra Mandal National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases Bacterial Lysr-Type Transcriptional Regulators (Lttrs) As Novel Targets For Broad-Spectrum Therapy Against Infections. Ms. Rohini Ravindran Nair Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Banaras Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells As A Potential Therapuetic Target For Hindu University, Varanai, Uttar Pradesh, 490020 Women With Early Miscarriage Mr. Soumitra Ghosh Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Nucleoid-Associated Protein HU: A Novel Target For Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Development Ms. Sunaina Surana National Centre for Biological Sciences, India (currently: University of Chicago, USA) A framework to apply DNA nanodevices to a multicellular model organism