Academic and Research Achievements:Dr. Archana Giri obtained her PhD in the area of Medicinal Plant Biotechnology from CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow, India in 1995. She is working as Professor at Centre for Biotechnology, JNT University, Hyderabad, India.  Her research areas include in vitro production of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants using biotechnological and molecular approaches. She got training in functional genomics of secondary metabolites at Plant Biotechnology Institute (PBI), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She also underwent training in metabolic engineering at Technical Universitat, Dortmund, Germany.

Prof. Archana's research program is focused on development and integration of plant biotechnological approaches for in vitro production of secondary metabolites of pharmaceutical value, cloning and over expression of genes of secondary metabolic pathways. Her other research interests include production of high value recombinant proteins in plant cell cultures and screening of antimicrobial, antioxidant and anticancer activities of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants. She is currently working on transcriptome analysis of medicinal plants to study the biosynthetic pathways and differential expression of genes.

Guided 15 Ph. D. students and more than 100 M.Sc. and M. Tech students

Published more than 130 peer reviewed articles in national and international journals.

Awards and Honors:Recipient of Meritorious teacher award from Govt. of Telangana 2019. Member Board of Studies for Harare Institute of Technology, Zimbabwe, Board of Studies chairperson for Biotechnology JNTUH, DBT Nominee for Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC) for Indian Immunologicals and Member IBSC for NATCO Pharma  and Gland Pharma, Hyderabad.