Seyed E. Hasnain
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Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain is Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology- Delhi, a renowned academic, science policy advisor and institution builder based in Delhi, India.
from Jawaharlal Nehru University
(1980) and worked at the University of Delhi
before leaving for a National Cancer Institute
postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta
, Canada
, where he was subsequently selected for the 'Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Fellow Award' to work at the Department of Medicine.
Hasnain then 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. Professor Hasnain has since then contributed tremendously to the development and upliftment of the University so much so that it recently attained the status of No. 1 university in 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.
Dr Hasnain is an elected Fellow of all the major Science Academies in the country, namely, Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India, Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences, Hyderabad, etc.
Dr Hasnain has recently become an Elected Fellow of the German Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina) , a 350 year old learned body in Germany. He is the first Indian to receive this honor. He was one of the youngest to be elected to the Fellowship of the prestigious Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), a Foreign Academy based in Trieste, Italy.
Dr 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.
Dr 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.
Biography
He was born in Gaya, Bihar and did his primary and secondary schooling from Gaya High School. He later obtained his PhDPHD
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from Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jawaharlal Nehru University, also known as JNU, is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. It is mainly a research oriented postgraduate University with approximately 5,500 students and a faculty strength of around 550.-History:...
(1980) and worked at the University of Delhi
University of Delhi
The University of Delhi is a central university situated in Delhi, India and is funded by Government of India. Established in 1922, it offers courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. Vice-President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari is the Chancellor of the university...
before leaving for a National Cancer Institute
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute is part of the National Institutes of Health , which is one of 11 agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NCI coordinates the U.S...
postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta
University of Alberta
The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada...
, Canada
Canada
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, where he was subsequently selected for the 'Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Fellow Award' to work at the Department of Medicine.
Hasnain then spent several years at the Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
, USA and returned to India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics is an autonomous organization funded by the Department of Biotechnology , Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. CDFD receives funding from other agencies like the Wellcome Trust on specific collaborative projects...
(CDFD) in February 1999. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of University of Hyderabad
University of Hyderabad
The University of Hyderabad is a post-graduate teaching and research institute in India. It was established by an act of the Parliament in 1974 as a Central University. The university also offers courses under distance learning programs...
in December 2005. Professor Hasnain has since then contributed tremendously to the development and upliftment of the University so much so that it recently attained the status of No. 1 university in India
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 IndiaPrime Minister of India
The Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...
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.
Dr Hasnain is an elected Fellow of all the major Science Academies in the country, namely, Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India, Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences, Hyderabad, etc.
Dr Hasnain has recently become an Elected Fellow of the German Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina) , a 350 year old learned body in Germany. He is the first Indian to receive this honor. He was one of the youngest to be elected to the Fellowship of the prestigious Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), a Foreign Academy based in Trieste, Italy.
Dr 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.
Dr 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.
Distinctions
- Robert Koch Fellow (visiting scientist program)
- Member, German Science Academy - Leopoldina http://www.leopoldina-halle.de/cms/
- Member, Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India
- Member, Scientific Advisory Council to the Union Cabinet - Govt. of India
- Recipient of the Padma Award from the President of India Padma Shri Awards (2000–2009)
- 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 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 for Science and Technology 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
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