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Nagamani Bora, Dr

Director of Biotechnology Degree Programs at University of Nottingham

Dr Nagamani Bora is the lead and director for biotechnology degree programmes at the University of Nottingham. Prior to this she worked as a senior lecturer in microbial technology at De Montfort University, as a senior research fellow at Aston University on an EPSRC-funded project between industry and academia, as a senior scientist at Avecia Biotechnology developing therapeutic proteins, and as a research associate at Newcastle University seeking greater understanding of the diversity and dynamics of starter cultures on European smear-ripened cheeses. She graduated with a genetics and biochemistry degree from India, and continued to specialise in industrial biotechnology in her MSc and PhD (2000–2005) from Newcastle University.

She is the chair for Biotechnology Teaching Theme, a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. She was nominated as the ‘Inspirational Woman in Biotechnology-2019’.

In her current role she looks at all aspects of student experience from access, retention, progression and attainment.

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