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] Ashish Sharma,^[5] etc.
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 academician, science policy advisor and institution builder based in Delhi, India.^[6]

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.^[7]

Honours and awards

An Honorary Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, he has been nominated by the Prime Minister of India for the Membership of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (SAC-PM), the highest decision and policy making body for Science & Technology for the country. A former member of the Science and Engineering Research Coouncil (SERC) of the DST, he is the recipient of several national and international awards which include Dr Nityanand Endowment Lecture for Biomedical Research, Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award, Goyal Award, G D Birla Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Golden Jubilee Biotechnology Fellowship Award, Ranbaxy Research Award and several others.

Hasnain has been an Elected Fellow of the German Academy of Sciences – Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina).

Hasnain has been associated with the Editorial Boards of several peer reviewed journals in India and abroad. He has also been associated with the Boards of Governors/Scientific Advisory Committees/Academic Councils of several National Institutes. Some of these are Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Bose Institute, Calcutta, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) and Cancer Research Institute (CRI), Mumbai, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, Sir Dorabji Tata Centre for Tropical Diseases, Bangalore, Centre for Molecular Medicine, JNU, New Delhi, Central JALMA Research Institute of Leprosy, Agra, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata, Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow, Centre for Human Genetics, IISc, Bangalore, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, Delhi, Indian Immunologicals Limited (IIL), Hyderabad.

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)^[7]^[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
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↑ http://seyedehasnain.org/people
↑ "PROF.SEYED HASNAIN, University of Hyderabad Memoirs" (PDF). Retrieved 13 March 2013.
1 2 University of Hyderabad Home Page
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↑ "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) Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (1961) Bimal Kumar Bachhawat (1962) Jagannath Ganguly (1963} Dilbagh Singh Athwal (1964) Chirayathumadom Venkatachalier Subramanian (1965) Hari Krishan Jain & Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao (1966) Tathamangam Ananthanarayanan Venkitasubramanian (1968) Madhu Sudan Kanungo & Narayana Balakrishnan Nair (1971) Birendra Bijoy Biswas & Satish Chandra Maheshwari (1972) Bhyravabhotla Radhakrishna Murty (1973) John Barnabas (1974) Obaid Siddiqi (1975) Guru Prakash Gutta (1976) Trichnopoly Chelvaraj Anand Kumar (1977) Amar Nath Bhaduri & M. K. Chandrashekaran (1979) Asis Datta & Jamuna Sharan Singh (1980) Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane (1981) Sunil Kumar Podder (1982) Govindarajan Padmanabhan (1983) Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian (1984) Chhitar Mal Gupta (1985) Madhav Gadgil (1986) Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya (1988) Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao (1988) Subhash Chandra Lakhotia (1989) Samir K. Brahmachari (1990) Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam (1992) Raghavendra Gadagkar (1993) Alok Bhattacharya (1994) Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain & Kallappa Muniyappa (1995) Ghanshyam Swarup & Vishweshwaraiah Prakash (1996) Jayaraman Gowrishankar (1997) K. VijayRaghavan (1998) Ch. Mohan Rao (1999) Dinakar Mashnu Salunke (2000) Raghavan Varadarajan (2002) Amitabha Chattopadhyay (2002) Satyajit Mayor (2003) 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) Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava & L.S. Shashidhara (2008) Amitabh Joshi & Bhaskar Saha (2009) Sanjeev Galande & Shubha Tole (2010) Amit Prakash Sharma & Rajan Sankaranarayanan (2011) Shantanu Chowdhary & Suman Kumar Dhar (2012) Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan (2013) Roop Mallik (2014) Balasubramanian Gopal & Rajeev Kumar Varshney (2015)

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