Education:
1977: BSc Chemistry; Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
1979: MSc Chemistry; Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
1984: PhD Biochemistry; Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
Employment:
1984-87: Postdoctoral Fellow Virology; University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, USA
1987-88: Assistant Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, USA
1988-2013: Scientist and Group Leader, Virology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India.
2013-present: Chief Executive Officer, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance, Hyderabad and New Delhi, India
Memberships and Distinctions:
Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences
Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India
Fellow, Indian National Science Academy
Member and Chair, Hepeviridae Study Group, International Committee for the Taxonomy of Viruses
Virology Advisory Board, International Union of Microbiological Societies
Member, National Technical Advisory Group on Vaccination, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
Chair (India) of the Indo-US Joint Working Group on HIV and STDs
Chair (India) of the DBT-NIH Khorana-Nirenberg Scholars Program
Chair, INSA Committee for International Union for Microbiological Societies
Chair, India-South Africa Committee on HIV/AIDS Research
Chair, India-East Africa Consortium for Translational Research on HIV/AIDS
Member, Indo-Dutch Committee on HIV/AIDS Research
Member, Executive Research Board, Indian Immunologicals, Hyderabad, India
Member, Advisory Group on Research Ecosystems for Africa and India, Wellcome Trust
Chair, Glue Grants Committee, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
Awards:
Biotechnology Career Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA
B.M. Birla Science Prize in Biology, India
Research Fellowship Award, Science and Technology Agency, Government of Japan
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Medical Sciences, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
International Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Sciences, The Wellcome Trust, UK
The M.R. Das Memorial Lecture Award, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi
Expertise and Interests:
Human and animal viruses; infectious disease; One Health
Research funding and management
International cooperation in health
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