Dr. Amulya K Panda has B. Tech degree from HBTI, Kanpur and master degree in chemical engineering from IIT Madras on 1986, He did Ph. D from IIT Delhi and worked at National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi from 1990 to 2021. He retired from NII as its Director on May 2021. He was a visiting scientist at the Depts. of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, USA. He has published the very first report on high cell density fermentation studies from India in 1995 and is an expert on refolding of proteins from inclusion bodies. Because of his contribution on applications of chemical engineering principles to biological processes, he was awarded the Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize from the Society for Biotechnology, Japan, for the year 2004.His other area of research is on vaccine delivery using biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles and Immunoengineering. He has published 150 research papers, 12 book chapters and has guided 25 Ph. D students and around 100 master students. He has the credentials of generating highest number of IPRs (35 pending/granted patents) while working at National Institute of Immunology (working since 1990).He was the past President of the Association of Microbiologist of India (AMI) in 2017. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, (FRSC) since 2020.