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Dr Pattanathu Rahman
Qualifications: BSc, MSc, MPhil, PhD, FRSA, FIES
Dr Pattanathu Rahman has 25 years of academic experience in research, innovation, management, and commercialization. He served as an Associate Professor at University of Portsmouth and Teesside University and founded TeeGene Biotech and Tara Biologics. He led MSc Biotechnology programme at Teesside and Portsmouth and led Biomanufacturing (L7), Bioprocessing (L6), Biotechnology (L6) and Bioreactors and Fermentation (L4) modules.
He has discovered novel biosurfactant-producing bacteria from Teesside and is the author of 70+ peer-reviewed journal articles with 5000 citations, h-index 28, and the editor of two books on the topic of Biosurfactants. His vast technical and management experience in biotechnology led to various cutting-edge technologies, product discovery, scale-up, tech-transfer and commercialization. He is included in the Stanford University List of World's Top 2% Scientists (2020).
He is a recipient of SAB Award of Excellence in Microbial Biotechnology and the winner of Teesside University’s Enterprise Project of the year award. He is a visiting Professor at SOA University (India) and has visited most of the top Research Institutions in India as part of British Councils delegations and is collaborating with them on UN sustainable Development goals on Health Care and Environmental Sustainability. He has been part of many R&D research projects including Plastic degrading enzymes, Soap from Agricultural wastes, and Sustainable Clean water treatment. He has established a strong international consortium with Europe, USA, India, New Zealand, UAE and China.
Dr Rahman has been a part of a multi-million research project consortium (EU Life-3 BIOREGEN, DEFRA Biorecycling at Teesside University and ‘UKRI sponsored -Plastic degrading Enzyme’ at the Centre for Enzyme Innovation at Portsmouth. He was leading MSc Food Science and Biotechnology programme at Teesside University and MSc Biotechnology at Portsmouth University. His main area of research interest includes Biomanufacturing of novel biopolymers, biofuels and biosynthesis of nanomaterials.
Dr Rahman has completed his Bachelor, Master and Doctorate degrees in Environmental Microbiology at Bharathiar University - Coimbatore, MPhil Environmental Science at Anna University (Madras) and Advanced Biomanufacturing of Biopharmaceuticals Course at the University of Cambridge (UK). Then started his career as a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland (2000-01), research Scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA (2001 -02) and an academic and enterprise researcher at Teesside University (2003-2018) and University of Portsmouth (2018 - 2020) mostly working on biotechnology research and enterprise projects. In 2020, he has completed Small Business Leadership programme at the Southampton Solent University (UK).
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BIV18-06
BB/LO13711/1
NGCS-2012-335