DR NESADURAI KALANITHI

Malaysia

Female

64

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PHD, BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF READING, UK
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MASTER OF SCIENCE, FOOD SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF READING , UK

Dr. Nesadurai is a biochemist by training, with more than 35 years of experience in the oil palm industry. She started her career in 1984, as a Senior Principal Research Scientist and Head of the Nutrition Group in the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), where she studied the effects of palm oil and its phytonutrients in food, nutrition and health. She has several patents and publications to her credit and is known for her contribution to the field of research in tocotrienols and breast cancer. Between 2003 to 2004, she was a Visiting Research Scientist at the Center for Animal Biotechnology, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Nesadurai in 2008 was made the Director of Product Development and Advisory Services in MPOB. In 2013, she was appointed Minister at the Malaysian Embassy based in Brussels, Belgium and was the Regional Manager for the MPOB in Europe, a position she held up till 2017.

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