Dr. Panda obtained his Bachelor's degree in Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry (B.V.Sc and A.H.) in 2007 from Odisha University of Agriculture Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar, India, and subsequently worked in general practice.  In September 2008, he was awarded a scholarship from National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), India to peruse his Master in Veterinary Science (M.V.Sc) in Animal Biotechnology and obtained an M.V.Sc degree in 2010. During this tenure, he worked with Dr. Suresh Kumar Singla’s embryo biotechnology team on a generation of the world´s second and third-cloned buffaloes (Garima II and Shrestha) by simplified somatic cell nuclear transfer i.e. hand-guided cloning technique. In 2011, Dr. Panda was awarded the Indian Council of Agricultural Research - International Fellowship (ICAR IF – 2009/10) to continue his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Dr. Wolfgang Wurst and Dr. Ralf Kühn’s lab at Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany. He established the pipeline for the highly efficient generation of genetic mouse models by sequence-specific nucleases such as TALEN and CRISPR/Cas9. He successfully defended his doctoral thesis at Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany in September 2014.

From 2014 to 2019, Dr. Panda continued his postdoctoral research with Dr. Fredrik Wermeling’s experimental immunology team at the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute (KI), Stockholm, Sweden. He studied the role of IL-4 in neutrophils in the context of Rheumatoid Arthritis by using CRISPR/Cas9-based custom screens, experimental cellular as well as murine models, and human patient material with the aim to identify novel drug targets. During his postdoc tenure, he received funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and KI Foundation Grants for Rheumatology Research.

Going a step ahead in his career, Dr. Panda started his Research Fellow job with Dr. Mike McGrew’s team in 2020 at The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies to work on the advancement of poultry health and welfare by preventing infectious and zoonotic diseases using advanced avian reproductive technologies.