Desh Pal S. Verma

Verma did postdoctoral work at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia 1970–1972 and then moved to McGill University and became an Assistant Professor in 1974.

[3] In 1988 he was appointed as a Professor and Associate Director of the Biotechnology Center at the Department of Molecular Genetics at The Ohio State University.

[citation needed] Verma's work in the field of biotechnology includes isolation of the first plant mRNA,[5] cloning the first plant gene,[6] discovery of many new genes named as Nodulins[7] including the one encoding Uricase[8] based on which a similar enzyme was isolated from raspberry which is being used by a biotechnology company to make a recombinant enzyme for the treatment of hyperuricemia.

He is currently engaged with a biotechnology company in USA in developing Lectins as molecular tools to identify cancer biomarkers[10][failed verification] and building glycoGPT, an AI based platform for glycobiology.

He has consulted with many international companies and advised the Planning Commission of India (currently NITI Aayog) from 2006–2011 in the area of agriculture biotechnology.