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Nationality
  
Indian

Fields
  
Life Sciences


Institutions
  
IIT Delhi (2011 –

Name
  
Seyed Hasnain


Born
  
13 April 1954 (age 70) Gaya, Bihar India (
1954-04-13
)

Alma mater
  
Jawaharlal Nehru University (PhD)

Doctoral students
  
Akash Ranjan, Saman Habib Sharmistha Banerjee, M Krishnaveni, Sudip Ghosh, Smanla Tundup, Yusuf Akhter etc.

Notable awards
  
G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research 2001Om Prakash Bhasin AwardGoyal AwardShanti Swarup Bhatnagar PrizeRanbaxy Research Award

Education
  
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Bioasia 2011 inaugural welcome address prof seyed e hasnain avi


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.

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Lecture by Prof. Seyed E. Hasnain 23.04.2013


Biography

Seyed E. Hasnain Professor Seyed E Hasnain

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 served as the 7th Vice-Chancellor of University of Hyderabad from 2005-2011. He took charge as Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi on 2 September 2016.

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. Prof. Hasnain also received the Padma Shri (Civilian Award) from His Excellency, the President of India for his work.

Distinctions

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  • Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Robert Koch Fellow (Visiting Scientist Programme)
  • Member, German Science Academy – Leopoldina
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Council to the Union Cabinet – Govt. of India
  • Padma Shri Award from the President of India in 2006
  • J. C. Bose National Fellow, University of Hyderabad
  • Honorary Professor, JNCASR, Bangalore, India
  • Founding Fellow and Adviser, ISOGEM
  • Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Life Sciences
  • Humboldt Research Award 2008 (The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany)
  • 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 Research 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

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