Dr. Ramjee Pallela is currently working as a Chief Manager at IKP Knowledge Park, Hyderabad, India. His career at IKP has involved igniting scientific brains through meetings and personal interactions, inspiring proposals for start-up grants and mediating the process with BIRAC through IKP. Before his engagement with IKP, Dr. Pallela served as Research Scientist at International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India.  With a Ph.D.  from Osmania University [CSIR-IICT as pedestal workstation], India, Dr. Pallela has engaged into biomedical research during his postdoctoral stay at South Korea spanning from 2009-2012. He started working towards transplanting his scientific acumen into management roles with a P.G. Diploma in Patent’s Law from the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University, Hyderabad, and with an M.B.A degree from Pondicherry University, India. Accolades in his scientificexcellence is marked with more than 40 research publications in varied national and international journals/books, which are majorly related to toxicology, marine sponge biology, development of novel biopolymer scaffolds and their applications in bone tissue engineering. Hermann Ehrlich (1957) after the defense of the PhD thesis (1984) served as a postdoctoral researcher at Max-Bergmann Centre of Biomaterials and Institute of Materials Science in Dresden. After successful habilitation in 2011 at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel he holds a W3 Heisenberg full professor position at the Institute of Experimental Physics at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. His research is focused on marine biomaterials, biominerals, biocomposites and biomimetics. Using biochemical, cellular, molecular, and analytical approaches, he and his co-workers, for the first time, discovered and characterized chitin and novel hydroxylated collagen in the skeletal formations of marine sponges. During last ten years, he has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, eight book chapters, two monographs and additionally holding four patents. He represented numerous invited and keynote lectures at Columbia University, at Yale University, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well. Recently, H. Ehrlich has been nominated for Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize 2015.

• Section I: Introduction and Global Scenario of Marine Sponges.- Section II: Chemical Molecules of Marine Sponges.- Section III: Biological Molecules and Materials of Marine Sponges.- Section IV: Chemicobiological Applications of Marine Sponges.- Section V: Biomedical Applications of Marine Sponges.- Section VI: Global Sonstraints, Prospects and Perspectives of Marine Sponge Research.

Dr. Ramjee Pallela is currently working as a Chief Manager at IKP Knowledge Park, Hyderabad, India. His career at IKP has involved igniting scientific brains through meetings and personal interactions, inspiring proposals for start-up grants and mediating the process with BIRAC through IKP. Before his engagement with IKP, Dr. Pallela served as Research Scientist at International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India.  With a Ph.D.  from Osmania University [CSIR-IICT as pedestal workstation], India, Dr. Pallela has engaged into biomedical research during his postdoctoral stay at South Korea spanning from 2009-2012. He started working towards transplanting his scientific acumen into management roles with a P.G. Diploma in Patent’s Law from the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University, Hyderabad, and with an M.B.A degree from Pondicherry University, India. Accolades in his scientificexcellence is marked with more than 40 research publications in varied national and international journals/books, which are majorly related to toxicology, marine sponge biology, development of novel biopolymer scaffolds and their applications in bone tissue engineering. Hermann Ehrlich (1957) after the defense of the PhD thesis (1984) served as a postdoctoral researcher at Max-Bergmann Centre of Biomaterials and Institute of Materials Science in Dresden. After successful habilitation in 2011 at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel he holds a W3 Heisenberg full professor position at the Institute of Experimental Physics at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. His research is focused on marine biomaterials, biominerals, biocomposites and biomimetics. Using biochemical, cellular, molecular, and analytical approaches, he and his co-workers, for the first time, discovered and characterized chitin and novel hydroxylated collagen in the skeletal formations of marine sponges. During last ten years, he has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, eight book chapters, two monographs and additionally holding four patents. He represented numerous invited and keynote lectures at Columbia University, at Yale University, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well. Recently, H. Ehrlich has been nominated for Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize 2015.

• Section I: Introduction and Global Scenario of Marine Sponges.- Section II: Chemical Molecules of Marine Sponges.- Section III: Biological Molecules and Materials of Marine Sponges.- Section IV: Chemicobiological Applications of Marine Sponges.- Section V: Biomedical Applications of Marine Sponges.- Section VI: Global Sonstraints, Prospects and Perspectives of Marine Sponge Research.

Dr. Ramjee Pallela is currently working as a Chief Manager at IKP Knowledge Park, Hyderabad, India. His career at IKP has involved igniting scientific brains through meetings and personal interactions, inspiring proposals for start-up grants and mediating the process with BIRAC through IKP. Before his engagement with IKP, Dr. Pallela served as Research Scientist at International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India.  With a Ph.D.  from Osmania University [CSIR-IICT as pedestal workstation], India, Dr. Pallela has engaged into biomedical research during his postdoctoral stay at South Korea spanning from 2009-2012. He started working towards transplanting his scientific acumen into management roles with a P.G. Diploma in Patent’s Law from the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University, Hyderabad, and with an M.B.A degree from Pondicherry University, India. Accolades in his scientificexcellence is marked with more than 40 research publications in varied national and international journals/books, which are majorly related to toxicology, marine sponge biology, development of novel biopolymer scaffolds and their applications in bone tissue engineering. Hermann Ehrlich (1957) after the defense of the PhD thesis (1984) served as a postdoctoral researcher at Max-Bergmann Centre of Biomaterials and Institute of Materials Science in Dresden. After successful habilitation in 2011 at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel he holds a W3 Heisenberg full professor position at the Institute of Experimental Physics at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. His research is focused on marine biomaterials, biominerals, biocomposites and biomimetics. Using biochemical, cellular, molecular, and analytical approaches, he and his co-workers, for the first time, discovered and characterized chitin and novel hydroxylated collagen in the skeletal formations of marine sponges. During last ten years, he has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, eight book chapters, two monographs and additionally holding four patents. He represented numerous invited and keynote lectures at Columbia University, at Yale University, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well. Recently, H. Ehrlich has been nominated for Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize 2015.

• Section I: Introduction and Global Scenario of Marine Sponges.- Section II: Chemical Molecules of Marine Sponges.- Section III: Biological Molecules and Materials of Marine Sponges.- Section IV: Chemicobiological Applications of Marine Sponges.- Section V: Biomedical Applications of Marine Sponges.- Section VI: Global Sonstraints, Prospects and Perspectives of Marine Sponge Research.