Seyed E Hasnain

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Seyed E Hasnain
Born April 13, 1954 (1954-04-13) (age 54)
Bihar, India
Nationality Indian
Fields Life Sciences
Institutions University of Hyderabad (2004 -
Alma mater Jawaharlal Nehru University (Ph.D

Seyed E Hasnain, (born 13 April 1954), obtained his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University (1980) , New Delhi and worked at the University of Delhi before leaving for a National Cancer Institute Post Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta, Canada, where he was subsequently awarded the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Fellow Award to work at the Department of Medicine. He then spent a couple of 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, who was a visiting scientist at Oxford was appointed as the first director of Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) in February 1999. He has recently been appointed by His Excellency, the President of India as the Vice-Chancellor of University of Hyderabad[1].


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[edit] Scholarly pursuits and Distinctions

  • Member, German Science Academy - Leopoldina
  • Member, Prime Minister's Scientific Advisory

Council

  • Recipient of the Padma Award from the President

of India (Civilian Award of India)

  • J C Bose National Fellow, University of Hyderabad
  • Receiving Editor, Infection Genetics and Evolution
  • Honorary Professor, JNCASR, Bangalore, India
  • Founding Fellow and Adviser, ISOGEM
  • Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Life

Sciences[2]

[edit] AWARDS

  • Humboldt Research Award 2008 (The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany[3])
  • DR NITYA ANAND 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, KK 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 in Biological Sciences-1995
  • PROFESSOR UMA KANT SINHA MEMORIAL AWARD, Indian Science Congress Association, Baroda, Jan 1992
  • 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
  • NII Award for "OUTSTANDING BASIC RESEARCH OF THE YEAR", 1991
  • IUB-Travel Award, International Congress of Biochemistry, Czechoslovakia, July, 1988
  • Fellow, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Alberta, Canada, 1983-85

[edit] PATENTS

  • A method for enhancing foreign gene expression in baculovirus expression vector system. Inventors: Hasnain, S.E., Venkaiah, B. and Habib, S. Application # 112/DEL/97 filed on January 15, 1997.
  • The AcMNPV baculovirus p35 gene protects against oxidative stress-induced apoptosis. Inventors: Hasnain, S.E., Sah, N.K., Kaur, T., Athar, M. and Pathak, N. Application # 2213/DEL/97 filed on July 8, 1997.
  • Genetic markers for human meningioma. Inventors: Hasnain, S.E., Dil Afroze, Sinha, S., Sarkar, C. and Mohapatra. Application # 1564/DEL/98 filed on July 6, 1998.
  • A method of an early identification of multi-drug resistance in mycobacterium tuberculosis and an appropriate therapy thereof. Inventors: Hasnain, S.E, Siddiqui, N., Pathak, N. and Katoch, V.M. Application # 426/MAS/2002 filed on June 5, 2002
  • A method for enhancing foreign gene expression in baculovirus expression vector system. Inventors: Hasnain, S.E., Venkaiah, B. and Habib, S. US Patent # 5,965,393 (1999)
  • Recombinant multivalent malarial vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum. Inventors: Altaf A. Lal, Ya Ping Shi and Hasnain, S.E. US Patent PCT application based in US # 60/097,703
  • Recombinant multivalent malarial vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum. Inventors: Altaf A. Lal, Ya Ping Shi and Hasnain, S.E. Indian National phase of PCT/US99/18869
  • Recombinant multivalent malarial vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum. Inventors: Altaf A. Lal, Ya Ping Shi and Hasnain, S.E. Japanese Patent Application # 2000-566433

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