Dr. Jeevan Khurana

Professional services including project management and independent advice. Crop protection - regulation and R,D&E

Program and project management including strategic planning, tender evaluation, contracting, ongoing project monitoring and financial management, project evaluation, closure and legacy, stakeholder management, organisational representation and key contact for plant health technologies.

Coordination of global joint review registration submission processes for international collaborative assessments of new agrochemicals. Coordination of international regulatory harmonisation activities (E.g. OECD and VICH), organisational input to relevant international conventions (E.g. Rotterdam, Stockholm and Minamata) and the management of other international relationships and agreements. Exposure to international regulatory frameworks.

Project management of product application portfolio. Recommendations for agrochemical registration decisions based on Health, Environment, Residues and Trade, Chemistry and Efficacy assessments. Risk mitigation recommendations for approved label particulars. Excellent process and legislative understanding. Detailed residues evaluations based on large trial data sets including animal exposures and food crop processing scenarios, conducting dietary exposure risk assessments and making MRL recommendations.

Research officer on projects related to Pesticide bioremediation. Conducted random and site directed protein evolution. Molecular biology. Library creation and screening

Capacity Building for Agriculture and Rural Development - Australian Youth Ambassadors program. Developing and validating immunoassay test kits for HTP screening of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables

Microbiology, Pesticide Bioremediation, Molecular Biology, Protein Expression and Purification, Protein Biochemistry and Kinetics, Some Crystallography

Pesticide Analysis and Fate, ELISA - immunoassay for pesticide residue screening