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| Born | 1 October 1958 India |
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Anand Kumar Bachhawat (born 1 October 1958) is an Indian geneticist, biochemist, professor in biological sciences and the dean of faculty at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. [1] Known for his studies on microbial genetics, [2] Bachhawat is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies namely Indian Academy of Sciences, [3] National Academy of Sciences, India [4] and Indian National Science Academy. [5]
Bachhawat, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur from where he secured a PhD, [6] heads the Bachawat Lab at the Department of Biological Sciences of IISER Mohali. [7] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles [8] and the online repository of scientific articles of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 29 of them. [9] He also holds patents for the biochemical processes he has developed. [10] The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2000. [11]
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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali is an autonomous public university established in 2006 at Mohali, Punjab, India. It is one of the seven Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), established by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India, to research in frontier areas of science and to provide science education at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. It was established after IISER Pune and IISER Kolkata and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India. It promote research in various fields of science.
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