Siddhartha Pati To Get Biju Patnaik Wildlife Conservation Award- 2024 For Works On Horseshoe Crabs

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Kendrapara: Noted horseshoe crab researcher, Siddhartha Pati (35), will be felicitated with prestigious Biju Patnaik Wildlife Conservation Award- 2024 by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi at an event to observe wildlife week in Bhubaneswar in October first week.

Pati completed his PhD from the Fakir Mohan University in 2019 with a fellowship from the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Department of Atomic Energy, government of India. Prior to this, he had completed his MSc in Biotechnology from the same university.

He pursued his post-doctoral research at University of Malaysia Terengganu. As a principal investigator in Odisha, he had led several horseshoe crab conservation projects.

To his credit, he also has the world’s first silent clay art film, ‘A day for living fossil.’ He Had produced the film to raise awareness on the biomedical and ecological importance of horseshoe crabs. Currently, he is serving as the executive director of Association for Bio-diversity Conservation and Research (ABCR) in Balasore.

He started conservation works in 2015 at Balaramgadi beach. According to the researcher, lysate extracted from the horseshoe crabs is effective against many diseases.