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Assistant Professor
Dr Mrinal Samtiya
mrinalsamtiya@tdu.edu.in
Dr. Mrinal is a food science and nutritional biochemistry researcher with over eight years of experience in probiotics, fermented foods, and gut and immune health.
Dr. Mrinal holds an MSc in Animal Biochemistry from ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal, and a PhD in Nutrition from Central University of Haryana. His PhD work identified beneficial bacteria in traditional dairy foods and used them to develop a millet-based fermented product with improved iron and zinc absorption, leading to an Indian patent filing. He later completed postdoctoral research at the BRIC-Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bengaluru, on epithelial and immune biology, where he worked with 3D organoid cultures and transgenic mouse models, including Cre-lox systems. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications, is listed among the Top 2% of Scientists worldwide (Stanford and Elsevier, 2025, 2026), serves on the editorial boards of several journals, and is an ASM Future Leaders Mentorship Fellow.
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