Dr. Ram Kulkarni, Assistant Professor at Symbiosis School of Biological Sciences, Symbiosis International University, received a DAAD Material Resources Grant. Dr. Kulkarni has been a DAAD research scholar in Jena, Germany.

The grant facilitated the purchase of the equipment worth 15.909 Euros gross for his institute. The equipment consists of a refrigerated incubator shaker, a PCR machine and a set of seven micropipettes. It will be used for various purposes at the institute, and will be accessible to fellow colleagues and researchers.