Dr. K. Preethi, Assistant Professor from the Department of Microbial Biotechnology along with Mr. P. Satheesh, were granted a patent for their research on developing a Purification process for Pheomelanin from the culture supernatant of streptomyces spinoverrucosus. The organism Streptomyces spinoverrucosus was isolated from marine source was grown in a culture medium ,the purification of pheomelanin was obtained from the supernatant left over after acid precipitation of eumelanin.