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That he has
multiple doctorates and has about 125 publications in leading journals in his
field are impressive enough. What makes
Dr.Sreeraj Gopi even more impressive isn’t that he has been involved in 75
patent applications or that he has been included in the world’s 2% top scientists
by the Elsavier-Stanford University list for the fifth consecutive year now.
What,
however, has been impressive is how he repays the society that shaped him.
Dr. Sreeraj
had his schooling in a Malayalam medium school in Koratty, a small town in Thrissur
District. Being interested in Chemistry
from a very young age, he completed his masters in Chemistry from Madras Christian
College. He further obtained his
doctorate from Gdańsk University of Technology and Deakin University,
Australia.
He worked
for some time with multinational companies, and had offer to continue in one
such company. But he wanted to give
something to the land that raised him.
Dr.Gopi
came back to Koratty to start his own company.
The initial phase was difficult as his car was his office for some
time. Now his products in drug delivery
systems, are exported to more than two dozen countries abroad.
His
company, Molecules Biolabs, employs many Malayali scientists from rural
areas. Thus, does he repay his debt to the land that brought him up.
Apart from his entrepreneurial research, he is a visiting
professor at many prestigious universities around the globe, like Shanghai
University, China and University of Manitoba, Canada. Further, he is a fellow of prestigious
peer-groups like Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), London and Royal Australian
Chemical Institute (CChem).
Dr.Sreeraj Gopi has combined with his wife, Dr. Akhila K.S., to start Akore Formulations, aimed at producing innovative products for cosmetics and Ayurveda medicines.
Entrepreneurs
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