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COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH

MINISTRY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, GOVT. OF INDIA,
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Pushpa S Murthy

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Post doc, PhD

Email : pushpa[dot]cftri[at]csir[dot]res[dot]in

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Expertise

A food science and biotechnology professional with over twenty-five years of specialized experience in extraction and application of secondary metabolites from plantation crops and their by-products especially in coffee, cocoa, and spices. Extensive research background in identifying and harnessing bioactive molecules for value addition, safety improvement, and flavor enhancement in food products. Development of nutraceuticals and functional ingredients for consumer protection and shelf-life improvement. Demonstrated ability to integrate food chemistry, biological studies, and product development methodologies in large-scale industrial and R&D environments.

Area of interest

Biotechnology, Food science and Technology, Coffee and spice processing, secondary metabolite biotechnology, and value addition

Awards and Certificates

  1. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy as a team lead for industrial project with highest project funding during 2025-26 on National Technology Day 2026, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore
  2. Dr Pushpa S Murthy Keynote speaker on International Women's Day  organized by IEEE, Bangalore JSS-STU / SJCE Mysuru to celebrate the International Women's Day on Saturday, 7th March 2026, Keynote addressWomen:Insights on Innovation, R&D, and Technology Transfer
  3. Dr.Pushpa s Murthy, Featured in Top 20 Eminent Women  Scientists in Natural Resource Management, coffee table book, ICAR,2025
  4. Pushpa S. Murthy, CSIR-CFTRI, Foundation day Annual Institute Award, for BEST Scientist CSIR-CFTRI 2024-2025.
  5. Pushpa S. Murthy, Advisory Committee for the International Conference on Research Interventions and Advancements in Plant Sciences (RIAPS 2026) 6th and 7th February 2026
  6. Pushpa S. Murthy  Selection Committee  member to evaluate and select suitable startups for ATAL incubation program Coffee board of India,2025-2026
  7. Akashvani, Pushpa S. Murthy on Planation products and spices at CFTRI technologies, Nam company - Thotada belegala moulyavardhane tantrikathegalu Dr. Pushpa S. Murthy Feb 4 2025.
  8. Pushpa S. Murthy, Expert member in Geographical Indications Registry, Government of India 2025
  9. Pushpa S. Murthy, Research council Member ICAR cashew research Directorate, GOI,2024-2027.
  10. Pushpa S. Murthy, Speaker, IGNITE, Spice Pharmacology SpARC Meeting, 4-5 July 2025, NCBS Bengaluru.
  11. Pushpa S. Murthy, CFTRI technologies pertaining to coffee, Boniest 27/06/2025, in association with coffee board, CFTRI, Mysuru.
  12. Jury Member. Pushpa S. Murthy, Food Hackthon, 27th and 28th February, 2025, CSIR CFTRI, BIRAC Bionest.
  13. Best Poster award, Shikku P, Pushpa S. Murthy, Levering All Spice leaf oil: organic approach to sustainable food preservation, India international Science festival, YSC 30-Nov -3Dec 2024,Guwahati,Assam.
  14. Best Poster award Shivani Tripathi, Gannesh B S lincy Pushpa S. Murthy, Cello-oligosaccharides from coffee husk a new generation prebiotic, National Seminar on Microbiome, Nutrition and Health, emerging Research and clinical Applications, Sep 26-27, 2024 Trirunapalli, Tamil nadu
  15. CSIR-CFTRI and All India Radio (Akashvani) Mysuru have jointly produced a forty-episode series on “Innovations and researches of CFTRI” in Kannada, titled as “CFTRI – Shodha – Anushodha” Pushpa S. Murthyon Coffee and health,2024
  16. Invited speaker Dr. Pushpa S. Murthy, National Webinar on Coffee Processing and Value Addition on November 27, 2024, under the Prime Minister - Formalization of Micro food Processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme.
  17. Pushpa S. Murthy, CSIR Women Achievers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Complied by CSIR NPL- April 2023
  18. Dr. Pushpa S. Murthy, Dr Kalpana Chawal State award for young women scientist 2022, 26 th Sep 2024, Government of Karnataka. 
  19. Pushpa S. Murthy, Speaker, 3rd August 2024 Gonikoppa, Hindu Economic Forum, Kodagu and Laghu udyog Bharti, Mysore vibhaga, Mysore
  20. Top cited research paper in Wiley 2022-2023, Pushpa S. Murthy, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DAIRY TECHNOLOGY Green coffee polyphenols in formulations of functional yoghurt and their quality attributes
  21. Pushpa S. Murthy, Invited speaker for Barista Training Workshop in association with coffee board and Bionest CFTRI Incubation center, 25.06.2024
  22. Pushpa S. Murthy, Research Council Member for 10th Cashew Research Institute, 06.06.2024 to 05.06.2027, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR – DCR). 
  23. Shivani Tripathi, Sachin M Eligar, Pushpa S. Murthy Coffee Husk Polysaccharides: Functional Food Ingredients and Sustainable Benefits, National conference on recent trends in biotechnology research, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, March 22 2024 Best Poster award.
  24. Aswathy M, Bahwana, Sandeep Mudaliar, Pushpa S. Murthy, Environmental Impacts of Robusta Coffee by Pulped Natural/Honey Coffee process: A Life Cycle Perspective, International conference on new horizons in Biotechnology, Nov 26-29 2023 Trivandrum, Kerala Best Poster award
  25. Pushpa S. Murthy, Coffee, and its value addition. Invited Speaker, Annual TATA Coffee R&D Day – “INVENTICA” on 31st August, 2023.
  26. Shikku P, Pushpa S. Murthy, Allspice leaves oleoresins as value-added ingredient for food and pharma industry, international conference on applications on Natural products, Nanomaterials and Nano pharmaceuticals, (ICAN3) August 9-10th 2023, Best young Innovative Award.
  27. Yajat S Murthy, Ashish Rao, Pushpa S. Murthy, Bean to brew, 3-7 July, OLOW 2023, CSIR -CFTRI Best Poster award, Innovative posters start-ups
  28. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy, CSIR-CFTRI, Foundation day Annual Institute Award, for External cash flow for CSIR-CFTRI 2019-2020.
  29. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy ,Distinguished Researcher in Food Biotechnology, International Research awards council, 2020, 26th Jan 2020, held at Grandeur Hall, Hotel Breeze Residency, Trichy, Tamil Nadu.
  30. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Biotechnologist award from Scire recognition, 2019, 3rd international conference during In Sync-next generation Biosciences, 6-8th November Held at Goa, India.
  31. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Har Gobind Khorana Best Scientist award for Food Biotechnology, Bose Science Society, 24th August 2019 at Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu, India during 9th International Conferences on Natural Sciences.
  32. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Distinguished Biotechnologist Award, for research contributions in field of Biotechnology by the Board of Management of Venus International Foundation, VIRA 2019, Venus’s foundation, Chennai.3rd August 2019.
  33. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Travel grant from ACSTM to make an oral presentation at 3rd ACSTM conference at Dubai Feb. 12-14th 2019.
  34. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Best paper award, Sustainable Management of Coffee Industry By-Products and Value Addition from resource conservation and recycling journal, Elseveir,2019,30 in 30 RCR.IF 7.0
  35. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Fellow of Bose Science Society from Bose Science Society, 2019, Affiliated with Vigyan Prasar, DST, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
  36. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Bio standups honours as “SHERO.” Face of month July 2018.
  37. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Global Food and Nutrition experts OMICS Online, Dr. (Mrs) Pushpa S. Murthy-2018.
  38. Best Oral presentation- Food and Nutrition, Nivas M. Desai, Karthik Iyer, Chakravarthy A, Pushpa S. Murthy,Chlorogenic acid (CGA) enriched Carbonated and Non-carbonated beverages from green coffee, Aug 1-3 2018, International conference on Research Interventions and advancements in Life Sciences, Pune, India.
  39. Best Oral presentation- Microbial Science, In-Silico Interaction of Enzymes in Coffee Fermentation, Sridevi G B, Pushpa S. Murthy, Aug 1-3 2018, International conference on Research Interventions and advancements in Life Sciences, Pune, India
  40. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Best Technology Transfer for the year 2016-2017, awarded by CSIR-CFTRI, for the technology ‘A Novel Process for production of Turmeric powder from Fresh Turmeric rhizomes, on 27.10.2017. during 75th CSIR foundation day.
  41. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Microbiologist Award-2017, Awarded by SCIRE Science in the international Conference of SciCon Series on current Trend in Bioscience, held at Cochin, India during 21-23 August 2017 for outstanding contribution in the field of expertise. 
  42. Sneha H P, Jayalakshmi E, Rastogi N K, Basavaraj K, Ken-Ichi Kusumoto, Pushpa S. Murthy, Enhanced flavour of coffee by acid carboxy peptidase produced by Aspergillus oryzae, Current Trends in Bio International conference,21-23rd August 2017, organized by Scire Science at Dunes Hotel, Cochin, India, Best Oral Presentation award
  43. James D Bound, Beulah K C, Pushpa S. Murthy, Green coffee with enriched Probiotics, synergy, stability and survivability, Current Trends in Bio International conference,21-23rd August 2017, organized by Scire Science at Dunes Hotel, Cochin, India. Best Oral Presentation award.
  44. Bhavya ML, Madhava Naidu M, Pushpa S. Murthy, Mycotoxins in chilli (Capsicum Annum) and its products and their inhibition using natural biomolecules, 2017, Feb 2-3 National Spice Conference, Mysuru- Best Poster award,2017
  45. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy UNU-KIRIN fellow for the year 2014-2015, National Food Research Institute, Japan
  46. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Awarded as Fellow from Society for Applied biotechnology - 2012. 
  47. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Travel award from CSIR to attend conference as invited speaker at The World Congress of Biotechnology, China-2012.
  48. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Honoured as National Jury for evaluating Indian coffee for international coffee flavor cupping competition to be held at specialty coffee association of America and Europe (SCAA and SCAE) since 2004-2017 organized by Coffee board of India, India.
  49. Dr. Pushpa S Murthy Honoured as National Jury for evaluating coffee quality of the Indian Barista championship. 2003-2005, by Specialty Coffee Association of India (SCAI) and Coffee board of India, India.
  50. Extension of shelf-life of aloo paratha using hurdle technology, Amitha V, Shwetha V, Pushpa S. Murthy, Roopa BS, Sathish HS, 7 th international food convention,18-21st 2013, CFTRI, Mysore-Best Poster award,2013
  51. Navya PN, Pushpa S. Murthy, Bioconversion of coffee husk cellulose and statistical optimization of fermentation conditions for production of exoglucanases, A National Conference on Appropriate Technologies for Indian Food Processing Industries, held at University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bangalore 5th – 6th March 2012 organized by Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology & University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore-Best oral presentation.
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