Prasodhan Niraula is the Founder and CEO at Apex Biotech and Agro-Forestry Research Center Pvt. Ltd, Khudunabari, Jhapa. He has received his Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from Tribhuwan University (TU), and his M.Tech. degree in Biotechnology from Kathmandu University (KU). He worked as an MS Research thesis student at the Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (RIBB), a project funded by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Italy. He has three international and one national peer-reviewed publication in the field of medicinal plants and has presented his research work at a number of conferences and seminars in Nepal. He was also awarded the “Young Scientist Award” at Young Scientist Summit 2016 (YSS) held on June 4 and 5, 2016 at Kathmandu, Nepal. In addition to this, he was a faculty member in the Department of Biotechnology at Kantipur Valley College (KVC) and Asian Institute of Technology and Management (AITM) delivering lectures on Bioinformatics and Enzymology, assisting and supervising course work laboratory. Besides that, Mr Niraula has worked as a Research Officer in the National Ayurveda Research and Training Center (NARTC), Kritipur from August 2016 to July 2019. Currently, he is engaged in producing virus-free banana saplings and Pre-Basic Seed (PBS) of potatoes along with the production of mushroom spawn and biopesticides.
