Seyed E. Hasnain

Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain
Born	(1954-04-13) 13 April 1954 Gaya, Bihar India
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Life Sciences
Institutions	IIT Delhi (2011 –
Alma mater	Jawaharlal Nehru University (PhD)
Doctoral students	Akash Ranjan,^[1] Saman Habib^[2] Sharmistha Banerjee,^[3] M Krishnaveni, Sudip Ghosh, Smanla Tundup, Yusuf Akhter,^[4]
Notable awards	G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research 2001 Om Prakash Bhasin Award Goyal Award Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Ranbaxy Research Award

Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain is Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, an academic, science policy advisor and institution builder based in Delhi, India.^[5]

Biography

Hasnain spent several years at the Texas A&M University, USA and returned to India in 1987 to work as a Staff Scientist at the National Institute of Immunology. Hasnain was appointed as the first director of Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) in February 1999. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of University of Hyderabad in December 2005.^[6] In September 2016 he is appointed as Vice Chancellor of Jamia Hamdard.^[7]

Honours and awards

Hasnain is the Chairman of the Biotechnology Advisory Committee (Government of Andhra Pradesh) and Adviser to the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on Biotech related issues. He is also the Member of Biotechnology Advisory Committees of Government of Jharkhand, Government of Gujarat and Government of Kerala.^[8]

Distinctions

Robert Koch Fellow (Visiting Scientist Programme)^[6]^[9]
Member, German Science Academy – Leopoldina^[10]
Member, Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India^[11]
Member, Scientific Advisory Council to the Union Cabinet – Govt. of India^[11]
Padma Shri Award from the President of India in 2006^[12]
J. C. Bose National Fellow, University of Hyderabad^[13]
Honorary Professor, JNCASR, Bangalore, India
Founding Fellow and Adviser, ISOGEM^[14]
Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Life Sciences^[15]
Humboldt Research Award 2008 (The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany^[16])
Dr. Nitya Ananda Endowment Lecture for Biomedical Research, INSA, 2005
Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Science & Technology, Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation for Science & Technology, 2004
Goyal Award for Life Sciences, Kurukshetra University, 2004
Dr. K.V. Rao Scientific Society Endowment Oration Award, Dr. K.V. Rao Scientific Society, 2002
G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research, K.K. Birla Foundation, 2001
Indian Academy of Neurology-Oration, New Delhi, 2001
Rustom Ranji Oration Award, Hyderabad Eye Foundation, 2001
Platinum Jubilee Lecture Award, Indian Science Congress Association, Chennai, 1999
Ranbaxy Research Award for Basic Medical Sciences, 1997
Golden Jubilee Biotechnology Fellowship Award, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, 1997
NII Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement, 1995
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Sciences, 1995
Professor Uma Kant Sinha Memorial Award, Indian Science Congress Association, Baroda, Jan 1992
NII Award for "Outstanding Basic Rearch of the Year," 1991
The YMSA-88 Young Scientist Award for Biological Sciences, awarded jointly by the MAAS and TWAS (Trieste, Italy), 1990
The Wood-Whelan Fellowship Award administered by the International Union of Biochemistry (IUB), 1989
WHO Visiting Scientist, NERC Institute of Virology, Oxford, 1989
IUB-Travel Award, International Congress of Biochemistry, Czechoslovakia, July 1988
Fellow, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Alberta, Canada, 1983–85

References

↑ Akash Ranjan
↑ Saman Habib
↑ Sharmishta_B
↑ http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9564-9790/
↑ "PROF.SEYED HASNAIN, University of Hyderabad Memoirs" (PDF). Retrieved 13 March 2013.
1 2 University of Hyderabad Home Page
↑ "Dr S E Hasnain Appointed New Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Hamdard" (PDF).
↑
↑ "Robert Koch-Fellow"- Programm
↑ Leopoldina-halle
1 2 http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/26/stories/2005012604521200.htm
↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
↑ http://www.dst.gov.in/whats_new/press_releases05/two-prestigious.htm
↑ http://www.isogem.org/
↑ Home Page of Prof. Seyed E Hasnain
↑ http://172.16.1.100/admin/uploads/spotlights/VC_Award.pdf

Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science

Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan (1960) M. S. Swaminathan (1961) Bimal Kumar Bachhawat (1962) Jagannath Ganguly (1963} Dilbagh Singh Athwal (1964) Chirayathumadom Venkatachalier Subramanian (1965) Hari Krishan Jain (1966) Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao (1966) Arun Kumar Sharma (1967) Tathamangalam Ananthanarayanan Venkitasubramanian (1968) Madhu Sudan Kanungo (1971) Narayana Balakrishnan Nair (1971) Birendra Bijoy Biswas (1972) Satish Chandra Maheshwari (1972) Bhyravabhotla Radhakrishna Murty (1973) Sardul Singh Guraya (1973) John Barnabas (1974) Obaid Siddiqi (1975) Archana Sharma (1975) Guru Prakash Dutta (1976) Kishan Singh (1976) Trichnopoly Chelvaraj Anand Kumar (1977) V. Sasisekharan (1978) Amar Nath Bhaduri (1979) M. K. Chandrashekaran (1979) Asis Datta (1980) Jamuna Sharan Singh (1980) Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane (1981) Sushil Kumar (1981) Sunil Kumar Podder (1982) Ramamirtha Jayaraman (1982) Govindarajan Padmanabhan (1983) Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian (1984) K. R. K. Easwaran (1984) Chhitar Mal Gupta (1985) M. Vijayan (1985) Madhav Gadgil (1986) Avadhesha Surolia Sudhir Kumar Sopory Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya (1988) M. R. S. Rao (1988) Subhash Chandra Lakhotia (1989) Manju Ray Samir K. Brahmachari (1990) Virendra Nath Pandey (1991) Srinivas Kishanrao (1991) Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam (1992) Dipankar Chatterji (1992) Raghavendra Gadagkar (1993) M. R. N. Murthy (1993) Ramakrishnan Nagaraj (1994) Alok Bhattacharya (1994) Seyed E. Hasnain (1995) Kalappa Muniyappa (1995) Ghanshyam Swarup (1996) Vishweshwaraiah Prakash (1996) Jayaraman Gowrishankar (1997) Kanury Venkata Subba Rao (1997) K. VijayRaghavan (1998) Debi Prasad Sarkar (1998) Siddhartha Roy (1999) Valakunja Nagaraja (1999) Dinakar Mashnu Salunke (2000) Jayant B. Udgaonkar (2000) Umesh Varshney (2001) Raghavan Varadarajan (2002) Amitabha Chattopadhyay (2002) Satyajit Mayor (2003) Gopal Chandra Kundu (2004) Ramesh Venkata Sonti (2004) Tapas Kumar Kundu (2005) Shekhar C. Mande (2005) Vinod Bhakuni (2006) Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale (2006) Upinder Singh Bhalla (2007) Narayanaswamy Srinivasan (2007) Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava (2008) L. S. Shashidhara (2008) Amitabh Joshi (2009) Bhaskar Saha (2009) Sanjeev Galande (2010) Shubha Tole (2010) Amit Prakash Sharma (2011) Rajan Sankaranarayanan (2011) Shantanu Chowdhury (2012) Suman Kumar Dhar (2012) Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan (2013) Roop Mallik (2014) Balasubramanian Gopal (2015) Rajeev Kumar Varshney (2015) Suvendra Nath Bhattacharyya (2016) Rishikesh Narayanan (2016)

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