Karmaveer award for city scientist

Retired scientist Renu Agarwal of the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) has been selected for REX Karmaveer Global Fellow and Karmaveer Chakra, a coveted award launched in association with the UN. It is from iCONGO-International Confederation of NGOs.

Renu Agrawal was chief scientist in the Food Microbiology department and a CSIR-CFTRI rural development programme coordinator at CFTRI, Mysuru. She is also a CSIR nodal coordinator for food science and nutrition.

Presently, she is an advisor, outreach activities at CFTRI. She has represented India as a team leader taking scientific delegation for Asia meet at Bali, Indonesia, nominated by DST, Union Government, on food policies. She is in research since 32 years. She has a PhD degree from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.

Her areas of specialisation include biotransformation of inexpensive and readily available precursor compounds into high-valued, high-cost bioactive molecules, microbial physiology, fermentation and probiotics.