C. M. Gupta

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C. M. Gupta (born, Sept 1, 1944) is a distinguished scientist from India who has significantly contributed in the development of research institutes in the country like IMTECH, ITRC and CDRI along with his research in membrane biology and drug research.

[edit] Education and Research

Gupta, graduated in Medicinal Chemistry from the Central Drug Research Institute (Lucknow, India with the degrees M.Sc. and Ph.D. He performed his post doctoral training in Biological Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA) under the supervision of Har Gobind Khorana. After serving as the Director of Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India for five years and Director, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow for over ten years, he is currently working as Distinguished Biotechnologist at the Central Drug Research Institute. His areas of specialization are Membrane Biochemistry/ Biophysics and Medicinal Chemistry. He has extensively contributed in the areas of Drug Targeting in Parasitic Diseases and Membrane Phospholipids Transbilayer Dynamics, and is currently working on elucidation of actin cytoskeletal network in Leishmania. These studies have resulted in publication of about 131 original research papers, 10 review articles, 5 book chapters and 6 patents.He has received several honors and awards and has served as a member of a number of important national and international committees.

[edit] Awards won

  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Biological Sciences (1985).


[edit] External links

http://www.cdriindia.org/cmguptabiodata.htm
http://biospectrumindia.ciol.com/content/bioFocus/103111201.asp
http://biospectrumindia.ciol.com/content/careers/104010801.asp
http://www.cdriindia.org/museumpic6.htm
http://www.iupac.org/organ/members/g/gupta.html

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

M.S. Swaminathan (1961) • B.K.Bachhawat (1962) • D.S. Athwal (1964) • J. Barnabas (1974) • T.C.A. Kumar (1977) • A.N. Bhaduri (1979) • C. M. Gupta (1985) • M. Gadgil (1986) • B. Bhattacharyya (1988) • A. Bhattacharya (1994) • Seyed E Hasnain (1995) • Govindarajan Padmanabhan (1999) • Raghavan Varadarajan & Amitabha Mukhopadhyay (2002) • Gopal Chandra Kundu & Ramesh Venkata Sonti (2004) • Tapas K. Kundu & Shekhar C. Mande (2005) • Vinod Bhakuni & Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale (2006) • Upinder Singh Bhalla & Narayanaswamy Srinivasan (2007)
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