Professor Seyed E. Hasnain (DoB: April 13,
1954), Ph.D. (JNU, Delhi), D.Sc. (h.c.) is the Professor
of Biological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and
former Vice Chancellor of the
prestigious University of Hyderabad (UoH).
While working at the National Institute
of Immunology, New Delhi, he was appointed as the first
Director of the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and
Diagnostics, (CDFD), Hyderabad, and in less than 7 years
he made CDFD a gold standard for
DNA analyses services and
research in basic biology. Having made extraordinary
contributions to Molecular
Infection Biology
and Epidemiology of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis,
the TB causing bacterium,
he has ~200 publications in
peer-reviewed journals of high
impact, and ~dozen patents. He has
mentored ~hundred PhD, MD and
Post Doctoral students, four of whom received the INSA Young Scientist Medal.
** Hasnain is a very well recognized scientist and a Fellow of all
major Science Academies of India (FNA, FASc, FNASc).
** Hasnain has almost
all major Indian Science Awards to his credit: G.D. Birla
Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Prize, FICCI Award, J.C. Bose National Fellow Award,
Ranbaxy
Research Award, Goyal Award, Bhasin
Award and several others.
** He is the first Indian elected as a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and one of the youngest to be elected as a Fellow of
TWAS, Trieste, Italy.
**
Internationally, Hasnain
is a
recipient of the prestigious Humboldt
Research
Prize, awarded
by the
Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Germany;
as well
as the very exclusive Robert Koch Fellowship, of the
Robert Koch Institute, Berlin. ** Professor Hasnain received the Padma
Shri (Civilian Award) from His
Excellency,
the President of India.
Spotlight:
Professor Seyed E Hasnain was recently appointed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India as a Member of the University Grants Commission - the supreme regulatory body for higher education in India (2011 onwards)Professor Hasnain is now the Visiting Professor at the King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Professor
Hasnain appointed Honorary Adjunct Professor at IISER, Bhopal, India
Professor Hasnain is a very well recognised scientist and a Fellow of all
major Science Academies of India. He was former Vice-Chancellor, University of
Hyderabad and served as the first Director of the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting
and Diagnostics, (CDFD), Hyderabad. In less than 7 years he made CDFD a gold
standard for DNA analyses services and research in basic biology.
He has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals of high impact, and
more than a dozen patents. He has mentored over hundred Doctoral and Post
Doctoral students, four of whom received the Indian National Science Academy
Young Scientist Medal.
Hasnain has almost all major Indian Science Awards to his credit: G.D Birla Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, FICCI Award, J.C. Bose National Fellow Award, Ranbaxy Research Award, Goyal Award, Bhasin Award and several others. He also received Padma Shri (Civilian Award) from the President of India.
Internationally, Hasnain is a recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Research Prize, awarded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Germany; as well as the very exclusive Robert Koch Fellowship, of the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin. He is the first Indian elected as a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and one of the youngest to be elected as a Fellow of The Acadamy of Sciences For the Developing World, Trieste, Italy. He was recently awarded Honorable doctorate by Queen's University Belfast.
Hasnain has almost all major Indian Science Awards to his credit: G.D Birla Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, FICCI Award, J.C. Bose National Fellow Award, Ranbaxy Research Award, Goyal Award, Bhasin Award and several others. He also received Padma Shri (Civilian Award) from the President of India.
Internationally, Hasnain is a recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Research Prize, awarded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Germany; as well as the very exclusive Robert Koch Fellowship, of the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin. He is the first Indian elected as a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and one of the youngest to be elected as a Fellow of The Acadamy of Sciences For the Developing World, Trieste, Italy. He was recently awarded Honorable doctorate by Queen's University Belfast.
Relevant session(s):
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Pre-conference session: UK-India Forum: Fostering research cooperation to build capacityGoing Global 2012
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6.1 India's Excellence Initiative: the role of global partnerships in research and innovationGoing Global 2012
Source : seyedehasnain.org, ihe.britishcouncil.org
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